Margaret Kerdeston
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Margaret de la Pole (1426 – after December 5, 1485), Countess of Kendal (Candale). Paternal grandmother of Anna of Foix-Candale, queen of Hungary and Bohemia.[1]
Life
She was the daughter of Sir John de la Pole (d. 1429) and Marie dite de Sicile. Her father was the youngest son of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and younger brother of William de la Pole, 1st duke of Suffolk. She married John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal, she gave birth to four children, including Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale.
She is buried at the church of Castelnau-de-Médoc with her husband.[2]
Children
- From her husband, John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal:
- Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale (ca. 1448-1500) Count of Candale, 1st wife Infanta Catherine of Navarre (ca. 1455 – before 1494), issue, including Anna of Foix-Candale queen of Hungary, 2nd wife Isabel of Albret, the daughter of Alain I of Albret (d. ca. 1530), another children.
- John (d. 1521) viscount of Meille in Aragon, count of Fleix and Gurson, his wife Anne de Villeneuve (d. 1567): issue, the dukes of Randan.
- Catherine (d. 1510), her husband Charles I count of Armagnac (1425-1497): without issue
- Margaret (d. 1534/36), her husband, Louis II margrave of Saluzzo (1438-1504): issue.
Notes
- ^ See Kropf (1895).
- ^ Les Foix-Candale
Bibliography
- Kropf, Lajos: Anna királyné, II. Ulászló neje (Queen Anne of Foix-Candale, the Consort of Ladislas II). Századok (Periodical Centuries) 29. 689-709. 1895.