Cook Family Ancestry Gaston I Count of Foix [15067] This title is just so we know which tree we are working in, as there are many families represented here.

Roger IV of Foix Count of Foix [15054]
(-1265)

Brunissenda of Cardona [42417]

Gaston VII of Béarn de Moncada Viscount of Béarn [15024]
(1229-1290)

Mathe de Béarn [15051]

Roger Bernard III of Foix Count of Foix [15053]
(Abt 1243-1302)

Marguerite of Montcada Viscountess of Béarn [15052]
(-1319)

Gaston I Count of Foix [15067]
(1287-1315)

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Spouses/Children:
Jeanne (Joan) of Artois [15068]

Gaston I Count of Foix [15067] ²⁴

Born: 1287
Marriage: Jeanne (Joan) of Artois [15068]
Died: 13 Dec 1315, Maubuisson Abbey, near Pontoise at age 28
Buried: Boulbonne Abbey

bullet Another name for Gaston was Gaston VIII of Foix-Béarn.

bullet General Notes:

http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal07598

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_I,_Count_of_Foix

bullet Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded: Count of Foix, 1302. was the 9th Count of Foix , the 22nd Viscount of Béarn and Co-Prince of Andorra .

He succeeded his father in 1302 as Count Gaston I of Foix and Viscount Gaston VIII of Béarn, first under the regency of his mother.

• Acceded: Viscounty of Marsan, 1310. In 1310, he inherited the Viscounty of Marsan from his aunt Constance of Moncada.

Gaston married Jeanne (Joan) of Artois [15068] [MRIN: 7233], daughter of Philip of Artois Count of Artois [11980] and Blanche of Brittany [11979]. (Jeanne (Joan) of Artois [15068] was born in 1289 and died after 1350.)

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Gaston I Count of Foix [15067] ²⁴