Gaston de Foix, (d. 1500) Earl of Kendal and Count of Benauges was a French of high nobility in last decades of Middle Ages. 1500 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The titles of Earl of Kendal and Duke of Kendal have been created several times, usually for people with some connection to the royal family. ...

He was a cadet member of the important Foix family in Southern France. He was a son of John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal. His paternal grandfather Gaston de Foix, Captal de Buch was created a Knight of the Garter in 1438. The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by King Edward III of England in 1348. ... Events Pachacuti who would later create Tahuantinsuyu, or Inca Empire became the ruler of Cuzco In Italy, the siege of Brescia by the condottieri troops of Niccolò Piccinino was raised after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì. January 1 - Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Hungary March 18 - Albert...

His paternal grandfather was also a sibling of John I of Foix-Grailly. His great-uncle John married Joan of Albret, daughter of Charles d'Albret, Constable of France and co-commander of the French army at the Battle of Agincourt where he was killed, and his wife Marie de Sully. Charles dAlbert (c1337 -1415)was constable of France and joint commander of the French army at Agincourt where he was killed He was born into a old Gascon family around 1337, he was the son of Arnaud Lord of Albert and fought under Bertrand du Guesclin as a young... The Constable of France (French connétable de France, from Latin comes stabulari for count of the stables), as the First Officer of the Crown, was one of the original five Great Officers of the Crown of France (along with seneschal, chamberlain, butler, and chancellor) and Commander in Chief of... Combatants Kingdom of England Kingdom of France Commanders Henry V of England Charles dAlbret Strength About 6,000 (but see Modern re-assessment). ...

John I and Joan of Albret were the parents of Gaston IV, Count of Foix who was the husband of Queen regnant Eleanor of Navarre. Eleanor de Foix (1425-Tudela, 1479), regent (1455-1479) and queen (1479) of Navarre. ...

Gaston succeeded as comte de Benauges in France. He also, as heir of Jean de Foix, Earl of Kendal, continued to claim that English peerage and therefore was styled Comte de Candale. The titles of Earl of Kendal and Duke of Kendal have been created several times, usually for people with some connection to the royal family. ...

He was given Infanta Catherine of Navarre, the youngest daughter of his prominent kinsman, as wife. Catherine de Foix (c. ...

They had a son who succeeded Gaston, and a daughter, Anna of Foix-Candale who married Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary. Anna of Foix (1484 – 26 July 1506) was the Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia. ... Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary Ladislaus Jagellion (Czech: Vladislav Jagellonský, Hungarian: ), (Polish:Władysław II Jagiellończyk, was the King of Bohemia from 1471 and the King of Hungary from 1490 until his death in 1516. ...