Margaret of Foix-Candale

Margaret of Foix-Candale
Marchesa consort of Saluzzo
Born1473
Foix, Occitanie
Died1536
Castres, Occitanie
BuriedCathedral of Saint-Benoît de Castres
Spouse(s)Ludovico II
FatherJohn de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal
MotherMargaret Kerdeston

Margaret of Foix-Candale (Hungarian: Foix-Candale-i Margit saluzzói őrgrófné, 1473, – Castres, 9 September 1536), was Marchioness of Saluzzo by marriage to Ludovico II. She acted as regent of the Marquisate of Saluzzo during the minority of her son Michele Antonio in 1504-1526.

Life

Margaret was the youngest daughter of John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal[1] and Margaret Kerdeston.

In 1492 she married Louis II Margrave of Saluzzo.[1] Marchioness Margaret accompanied her niece Queen Anna of Foix-Candale in 1502 from Saluzzo to Venice in the wedding tour from France to Hungary, when Queen Anna visited her paternal relatives in Saluzzo.[2] During her second pregnancy, Queen Anna asked her aunt, Margaret to come to Buda in 1506.[3]

The Marchioness after her husband's death acted as a regent of Marquisate of Saluzzo in the name of her first-born son, Michele Antonio. Her four surviving sons all inherited the marquisate in the order of primogeniture.

Children

  • Michele Antonio (26 March 1495 – 18 October 1528), Marquess of Saluzzo (1504–1528)[4]
  • Gian Ludovico (21 October 1496 – 1563), Marquess of Saluzzo (1528–1529, deposed).
  • Francesco Ludovico (15 February 1498 – 28 March 1537), Marquess of Saluzzo (1529–1537)[4]
  • Adriano (20 October 1499 – June 1501).
  • Gian Gabriele (26 September 1501 – 29 July 1548), Marquess of Saluzzo (1537–1548).

References

  1. ^ a b Tewes 2011, p. 497.
  2. ^ See Wenzel (1877).
  3. ^ See Wenzel (1877).
  4. ^ a b Tavuzzi 2007, p. 134.

Sources

  • Tavuzzi, Michael (2007). Renaissance Inquisitors: Dominican Inquisitors and Inquisitorial Districts in Northern Italy, 1474- 1527. Brill.
  • Tewes, Götz-Rüdiger (2011). Kampf um Florenz: die Medici im Exil (1494-1512) (in German). Bohlau.
  • Wenzel, Gusztáv: II. Ulászló magyar és cseh királynak házas élete (The Marriages of Ladislas II King of Hungary and Bohemia). Századok (Periodical Centuries). 631–641, 727–757 and 816–840. 1877.