Gaston II, Count of Foix
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Count Gaston II de Foix was born in 1308. He became Count in 1315 at the age of 8. He died at the siege of Algeciras, Spain in September 1343 at the age of 35. He was also Viscount Gaston IX de Bearn. He started ruling his states after 1329 when he was 21, after enclosing his mother at Foix and then Orthez. He was the eldest son of six siblings and three bastards of Count Gaston I de Foix, Viscount Gaston VIII de Bearn(Born in 1289, Inherited 1302, at the age of 13, Died 1315, aged 26) and Jeanne d'Artois, daughter of Philip de Conches.
His actions in 1339 on the conquest of the castle of Tartas led him to receive the title of Viscount de Lautrec. He died in the Siege of Algeciras, in southern Spain, in September 1343, during a western European Crusade in the South of Spain led by King Alfonso XI of Castile.