Germaine of Foix
Queen of Aragon from 1506 to 1516 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ursula Germaine of Foix[lower-alpha 1] (c. 1488 – 15 October 1536) was an early modern French noblewoman from the House of Foix. By marriage to King Ferdinand II of Aragon, she was Queen of Aragon, Majorca, Naples, Sardinia, Sicily, and Valencia and Princess of Catalonia from 1506 to 1516 and Queen of Navarre from 1512 to 1516. She was Vicereine of Valencia from 1523 until her death in 1536, jointly with her second and third husbands, respectively Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria. By her third marriage, she was Duchess of Calabria.
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Germaine of Foix | |||||
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Queen consort of Aragon, Majorca, Valencia, Sardinia, Naples and Sicily Countess consort of Barcelona | |||||
Tenure | 22 March 1506 – 23 January 1516 | ||||
Queen consort of Navarre | |||||
Tenure | 24 August 1512 – 23 January 1516 | ||||
Duchess consort of Calabria | |||||
Tenure | August 1526 – 15 October 1536 | ||||
Born | c. 1488 Mazères(?), Kingdom of France | ||||
Died | 15 October 1536 (aged 48) Llíria, Valencia, Kingdom of Valencia | ||||
Burial | Monasterio de San Miguel de los Reyes | ||||
Spouses | |||||
Issue Detail | John, Prince of Girona | ||||
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House | Foix | ||||
Father | John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne | ||||
Mother | Marie of Orléans |
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