The bayle was the tax collector and the main enforcer of law and order in the town, reporting to the châtelain who ruled to town for the Comté de Foix.

Their main interest was on the striatum, that after Foix and Nicolesco they proposed ( 1941 ) to name so.

A most impressive teacher and clinician, Foix was almost as much at home with general medicine as he was with neurology.

The 1457 council was held by Cardinal de Foix, Archbishop of Arles and legate of Avignon, who was also a Franciscan.

Anne was a daughter of King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary and his wife Anne de Foix.

In 1278, the conflict was resolved by the signing of a pareage ( pariatges ), which provided that Andorra's sovereignty be shared between the Count of Foix and the Bishop of La Seu d ' Urgell ( Catalonia, Spain ).

On taking over the kingdom in 1519, Emperor Charles V granted the lordship of Les Valls, as it was then known, to Germaine of Foix ’ s line in perpetuity.

Henry III of Navarre, who was also count of Foix, in 1589 ascended the French throne as Henry IV, and by an edict of 1607 established the head of the French state, along with the bishop of Urgel, as co-princes of Andorra.

Gaston de Foix fell in the battle, in which he was supporting Alfonso.

Louis was the son of Ladislaus II Jagiellon and his third wife, Anne de Foix.

The remaining 76. 6 % is made of Quercy and Rouergue ( of which was talked above ), as well as the province of County of Foix ( which had been a vassal of the county of Toulouse in the Middle Ages ), several small provinces of the Pyrénées mountains, and a large part of Gascony.

In September 1217, while Montfort was occupied in the Foix region, Raymond re-took Toulouse.

It was created from the counties of Foix and Couserans.

This was also the period during which the abbeys at Foix, Tarascon-sur-Ariège, Saint-Girons, Saverdun and Le Mas-d ' Azil were torched and destroyed.

There were once two castles in Le Fleix, the Old Castle, which was destroyed, and the New Castle built in the 17th century as a residence for Frédéric de Foix.

During the early 16th century, the Château de Pau was made more habitable by Gaston III, count of Foix and became the residence of the kings of Navarre, who were also viscounts of Béarn.

Matthew of Foix invaded Aragonese territories, but was driven back by the new King Martin.

Pedro was the Marquis of Villena ( 1362 — Aljubarrota, 1385 ) and son of Alfonso de Aragón y Foix.

* 16. 6 % of Midi-Pyrénées was a collection of small Pyrenean provinces, from east to west: the County of Foix ( eastern half of Ariège ), Couserans ( western half of Ariège ), Nébouzan ( extreme south of Haute-Garonne and extreme east of Hautes-Pyrénées ), Quatre-Vallées ( i. e. " Four Valleys ") ( east of Hautes-Pyrénées ), and Bigorre ( west and center of Hautes-Pyrénées ).

In the Middle Ages, most of what is now Midi-Pyrénées was ruled at some time or another by the counts of Toulouse ( except for Hautes-Pyrénées and the west of Gers ), either directly or through vassals ( such as in the case of Foix ).

While other variants of Occitan ( but primarily Languedocian ) was spoken in the east and northeast of the region: Languedoc, Rouergue, Quercy, and Comté de Foix.

French forces under Gaston de Foix inflicted an overwhelming defeat on a Spanish army at the Battle of Ravenna in 1512, but Foix was killed during the battle, and the French were forced to withdraw from Italy by an invasion of Milan by the Swiss, who reinstated Maximilian Sforza to the ducal throne.

It retained these two names while it was ruled by the counts of Toulouse during early part of the Middle Ages, but the southern part became more familiar as Roussillon and the west became known as Foix, and the name " Gothia " ( along with the older name " Septimania ") faded away during the 10th century, except as a traditional designation as the region fractured into smaller feudal entities, which sometimes retained Carolingian titles, but lost their Carolingian character, as the culture of Septimania evolved into the culture of Languedoc.

His right to the throne was contested, first by Count Matthew of Foix on behalf of his wife Joanna, elder daughter of John I.

Though the gallantry of Bayard and the French cavalry under de Foix carried the day, the duc was killed in the final hour ; rendering the battle a strategic loss for the French ; and a personal tragedy for Bayard.

Bonnivet succeeded Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, in 1523, as commander of the army of Italy and entered the Milanese, but was defeated and forced to effect a disastrous retreat, in which the chevalier Bayard perished.

As in other famous similar cases in middle age Europe ( such as Foix, or Dauphiné ), the local feudal had to swear oath of allegiance to the king for the specific territory, even when the former was himself an independent ruler of another state.

Later insurrections broke out under the leadership of Bernard of Foix, Aimery of Narbonne and Bernard Délicieux ( a Franciscan friar later prosecuted for his adherence to another heretical movement, that of the Spiritual Franciscans ) at the beginning of the 14th century.

At the suggestion of one Yvain de Foix, the king commanded that the torch-bearers were to stand at the side of the room.

The death of Simon de Montfort at the site to Toulouse after the return of Count Raymond VII of Toulouse and the consolidation of Occitan resistance supported by the Count of Foix and Aragonese crown forces decided the military intervention of Louis VIII of France from 1226 with the support of Pope Honorius III.

Temperatures are mild in the foothills, e. g. at the city of Foix ( 400 metres ) the average is 5 ° C in January and 19 ° C in July.

The castle at Foix

* Infanta Joanna of Aragon ( Daroca, October 1375-Valencia, September 1407 ), who married in 4 June 1392 at Barcelona to Mathieu, Count of Foix.

Two captain adventurers returned from crusade against the pagans of Prussia, were at Châlons, Gaston Phebus, comte de Foix and his noble Gascon cousin the Captal de Buch ; the approach of their well-armed lancers encouraged the besieged nobles in the fortress, and a general rout of the Parisian force ensued.

Bertrand Clausel was born on 12 December 1772 at Mirepoix in the County of Foix, and served in the first campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars as one of the volunteers of 1791

In 1290, at a meeting of the Béarn region and the county of Foix, the city was practically abandoned by the Counts.

* Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix: Saisset's adversary at Pamiers ( French )

She came to court before 1522 and was one of the maids-of-honour of Louise of Savoy, Duchess of Angoulême, the mother of Francis I. Francis made Anne his mistress, probably upon his return from his captivity at Madrid ( 1526 ), and soon gave up his long-term mistress, Françoise de Foix, for her.

Foix taught at Georges Guillain's clinic at the Salpêtrière and at Emile Charles Achard's at the Hospital Beaujon, always distinguishing himself by his wide knowledge and rational approach.

Only a year later, Ferdinand joined the Holy League against France, seeing a chance at taking both Naples — to which he held a dynastic claim — and Navarre, which was claimed through his marriage to Germaine of Foix.

Left without legitimate sons, Gaston de Foix was easily persuaded to bequeath his lands to King Charles VI, who thus obtained Foix and Béarn when the count died at Orthez in 1391.

He took a prominent part in the struggle between the rival popes, and founded and endowed the Collège de Foix at Toulouse.