Odet de Foix

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Odet de Foix, drawing by Jean Clouet

Odet de Foix, Viscount de Lautrec (* 1485 - †  August 15, 1528 near Naples ), since 1511 Marshal of France ( Maréchal de Lautrec ), fought on the French side in the Italian wars . He was considered one of the bravest soldiers of his time.

Life

Odet de Foix was Vice Count of Lautrec , Count of Beaufort (since 1512) and Rethel (since 1525) from 1498 . He was also lord (seigneur) of Orval , Chaource , Marais , Isles and Villemur in the Bailliage of Troyes . In addition, he carried the title of Comte de Comminges to confirm his claim, as his mother's heir, to the county of Comminges which was confiscated by the crown in 1498. In the course of his life he was also appointed to the offices of governor and admiral of Guyenne , lieutenant general of the French armies in Italy and was appointed Chevalier de Saint Michel .

Odet de Foix was the eldest son of Jean de Foix , Vicomte de Lautrec et Villemur, governor of the Dauphiné , and Jeanne d'Aydie de Lescun, daughter of Odet d'Aydie .

King Ludwig XII. made him Marshal of France on March 1, 1511. In the same year he led the bishops to the Council of Pisa . In 1512 he was badly wounded after the Battle of Ravenna and mistakenly left on the battlefield.

Also in 1512 he became Governor General of Guyenne, when he was given to King John III. of Navarre stood by the side in the battles with which he recaptured his kingdom occupied by Ferdinand II of Aragon .

In 1515 he went to Italy with King Francis I as commander of the reconnaissance units and warned him of the betrayal of the Swiss in the battle of Marignano . The king installed him as governor of the Duchy of Milan ; he conquered Brescia and Verona and in 1521 lifted the siege of Parma . The following year his troops were defeated in the Battle of Bicocca . After losing Milan, where his reign of terror was remembered, he retired to one of his houses in Guyenne. He did not lose his military charge, because his sister Françoise , mistress of the king, knew how to act for him.

In 1523, through his resistance, he forced Spain to lift the siege of Bayonne . Until 1526 he was - by the name of Admiral von Guyenne - governor of Languedoc .

Odet de Foix was in 1527 Lieutenant General of the League of Cognac , which was formed against Emperor Charles V in Italy. He retook Genoa and Alessandria and marched on Pavia , which he took in an assault and released for sacking. On May 1, 1528, he began the siege of Naples , where he died on the following August 15 of the plague that had spread in his camp.

The Duke of Sessa had a marble tomb erected for him under the name le Grand Capitaine in the chapel of Gonzalez of Cordoba in the Neapolitan church of Santa Maria la Nova in Naples 28 years after his death.

Odet de Foix was married to Charlotte d'Albret, the third daughter of Jean d'Albret , Lord von Orval, Governor of Champagne and Brie , and Charlotte of Burgundy, Countess of Rethel.

The couple's descendants were:

  • Gaston de Foix, born February 5, 1521 in Montrond , † young
  • Henri de Foix, Count of Beaufort, Rethel and Comte de Comminges , † September 20, 1540
  • François de Foix, † young
  • Claude de Foix, † 1553 in childbed, Countess of Beaufort and Rethel

After the heirless death of his daughter in 1553, the inheritance of Odet de Foix should, according to his will, go to François I de Clèves, Count of Nevers . This was Odet's nephew, son of his sister-in-law Marie d'Albret .

Odet's sister Françoise de Foix was a mistress of King Francis I of France , the brother Thomas de Foix was also a Marshal of France. Another brother, André de Foix , died in 1547 with no offspring. Its death meant the extinction of the Victomtes de Lautrec from the house of the Counts of Foix .

Individual evidence

  1. Lautrec, Odet de Foix, Vicomte de. In: Meyers Kleines Konversations-Lexikon , 1908, Volume 4, p. 340
predecessor Office successor
Jean de Foix Vice Count of Lautrec
1498–1528
Henri de Foix
Gaston de Foix Count of Beaufort
1512–1528
Henri de Foix
Marie d'Albret Count of Rethel
1525–1528
Henri de Foix