Savoia, margherita de foix, marchesa di saluzzo, 1516

}, 1473, –

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, 9 September 1536), Marchioness of

Saluzzo Saluzzo (; pms, Salusse ) is a town and former principality in the province of Cuneo, in the Piedmont region, Italy. The city of Saluzzo is built on a hill overlooking a vast, well-cultivated plain. Iron, lead, silver, marble, slate etc. are fo ...

, regent of

Marquisate of Saluzzo The Marquisate of Saluzzo () was a historical Italian state that included parts of the current region of Piedmont and of the French Alps. The Marquisate was much older than the Renaissance lordships, being a legacy of the feudalism of the High ...

(1504–1526), aunt of

Anna of Foix-Candale Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) ...

, Queen of

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Life

Margaret was the youngest daughter of

John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal Jean de Foix (c. 1415 – 1485) was the Captal de Buch, first Earl of Kendal (Gallicised into "''Comte de Candalle''"), Vicomte de Castillon, Meilles and Comte de Benauges. Biography Jean de Foix was a Gascon noble in the service of the English. ...

and

Margaret Kerdeston Margaret Kerdeston (after 1425 – after 5 December 1485), Countess of Kendal (Candale), was the paternal grandmother of Anne of Foix-Candale, queen of Hungary and Bohemia. Life She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Kerdeston (d. 1446) and Elizabeth ...

. In 1492 she married Louis II

Margrave of Saluzzo The marquises (also marquesses or margraves) of Saluzzo were the medieval feudal rulers city of Saluzzo (today part of Piedmont, Italy) and its countryside from 1175 to 1549. Originally counts, the family received in ''feudum'' the city from the ...

. Marchioness Margaret accompanied her niece Queen

in 1502 from

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in the wedding tour from France to

, when Queen Anna visited her paternal relatives in

. During her second pregnancy, Queen Anna asked her aunt, Margaret to come to Buda in 1506.See Wenzel (1877). The Marchioness after her husband's death acted as a regent of

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) * 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) * Adriano (20 October 1499 – June 1501). * Gian Gabriele (26 September 1501 – 29 July 1548), Marquess of Saluzzo (1537–1548).

References

Sources

* * * 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.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:FoixCandale, Margaret of House of Foix Counts of Candale People from Saluzzo Aleramici 16th-century women rulers Marchionesses of Saluzzo 1473 births 1536 deaths