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Jacques de Foix was a Count of Montfort and Captal Buch and the so-called “Infante of Navarre”.Born about 1470 he was the ninth son of Gaston IV Count of Foix and Bigorre Viscount of Béarn and his wife Eleanor (or Leonora) of Aragon Queen of Navarre.He was Governor of Béarn and Lieutenant-General of Lower Navarre for the king.Married in 1485 and divorced in 1494 to Ana de Peralta daughter of Pedro de Peralta 1st Count de Santisteban y Lerín and his second wife Isabelle de Grailly but divorced her in 1494.He Married a second time in 1495 to Catherine de Beaumont daughter of Louis de Beaumont 2nd Count de Lerín and his wife Leonor de Aragón.
