Pierre de Foix (Lautrec)

Pierre de Foix (* after 1423; † 1454 ) was the second-born son of Count Johann I von Foix and his second wife Jeanne d'Albret. After his father's death in 1436, he received the vice-county of Lautrec from his father's inheritance and founded the branch line of the House of Foix-Grailly , which existed until the middle of the 16th century.

Pierre de Foix belonged to the court of King Charles VII of France , where he was educated and trained as a knight. At the beginning of the fifties of the 15th century he took part in the entourage of his older brother, Count Gaston IV of Foix, in the last great offensive of France during the Hundred Years' War against England in Gascony . Pierre de Foix probably also fought in the Battle of Castillon on July 17, 1453. During the siege of Blanquefort in July 1454, the de Foix brothers left the royal French army to besiege the city of Cadillac . After successfully taking it, Pierre de Foix died a few days later.

Pierre de Foix was since 1449 with Catharine, a daughter of Count Johann III. von Astarac and his wife Jeanne de Barbazon, married. The only child of this marriage was the posthumous son Jean .

literature

• Justin Cénac-Moncaut: Voyage archéologique et historiques dans les anciens comtés d'Astarac et de Pardiac. 1856.