Gaston de Foix, Duc de Nemours (1489-1512) was a nephew of Louis XII of France. In 1511 he took command of the French army fighting in the War of the League of Cambrai; he was initially successful against the forces of the Holy League, capturing Brescia and Bergamo. At the Battle of Ravenna in 1512, he defeated the Spanish under Ramon de Cardona but was killed during the subsequent pursuit. Louis XII Louis XII the Father of the People (French: Louis XII le Père du Peuple) (June 27, 1462 - January 1, 1515) was King of France from 1498-January 1, 1515. ... Events Diego Velázquez and Hernán Cortés conquer Cuba; Velázquez appointed Governor. ... The League of Cambrai was a league against Venice formed in 1508 under the leadership of Pope Julius II. It included, besides the Pope, Louis XII of France, Emperor Maximilian I, and Ferdinand of Aragon. ... The Catholic League (or Holy League) was a coalition of various European powers that was formed between 1510 and Italy against Louis XII of France, and so strengthen the power of the pope. ... For the Italian administrative area, see Province of Brescia Brescia is a city in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy with a population of around 200,000. ... Bergamo is a town in Italy, in Lombardy, about 40km northeast of Milan. ... The Battle of Ravenna, fought on April 11, 1512, by forces of the Holy League and France, was a major battle of the Italian Wars. ... Ramon de Cardona served as the Spanish viceroy of Naples during the Italian Wars and commanded the Spanish forces in Italy during the War of the League of Cambrai. ...
County of Foix coat of arms The independent counts of Foix, with their castle overlooking the town of Foix, now in southernmost France, governed their county of Foix, which corresponded roughly to the eastern part of the modern département of Ariège (the western part being Couserans). ...
References
Norwich, John Julius (1989). A History of Venice. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-72197-5.
Taylor, Frederick Lewis (1973). The Art of War in Italy, 1494-1529. Westport: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-8371-5025-6.
Jean Comte deFoix, Vicomte de Narbonne, qui prit aussi le titre de Roy de Navarre, à le tenir de la Couronne en foy, and infeodation perpetuelle, pour luy, and ses enfans mâles, and femelles, nez, and à naître, mort en 1500.
— Phillipi de Chabot (reign of Francis I).
Bernard GINESTE [éd.], «François-Séraphin Delpech: GastondeFoix (lithographie, 1820)», in Corpus Étampois,
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