Jacques de Foix
From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Jacques de Foix was a sixteenth century Catholic Bishop of Oloron and then Lescar, both in France.[1]
Early life
[edit]De Foix was the son of an unknown mistress and Jacques de Foix Infante de Navarra (1469-1500), Count de Montfort. He was a grandson of Gaston IV, Count of Foix and Eleanor of Navarre, monarch of the Kingdom of Navarre.
Catholic bishop
[edit]He was Bishop of Oloron from 1521 until 1534 and Bishop of Lescar from 1534 until 1553.[2] He probably died 7 Apr 1553.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ J. Michael Hayden, Malcolm R. Greenshields, Six Hundred Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church, 1190-1789 (McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2005) page 379.
- ^ Bishops of Oloron at G Catholic Website.
Further reading
[edit]- Jonathan A. Reid (2009). King's Sister - Queen of Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and Her Evangelical Network. BRILL. pp. 522–524. ISBN 978-90-04-17760-4.
- Hugh Noel Williams (1916). The Pearl of Princesses: The Life of Marguerite D'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre. Brentano's. pp. 284, 49.
 | This article about a French Catholic bishop or archbishop is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |