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He was active in the defence and subsequent recovery of the city of Bordeaux. Then on 17 July 1453 he and John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, fought the French forces at the Battle of Castillon. Talbot and a son were killed and Jean de Foix was taken prisoner.
The third creation was for Jean de Foix, vicomte de Castillon, who was created Earl of Kendal in 1446. He gave allegiance to the King of France in 1462, and is thereby presumed to have forfeited his English peerage.
The survivors of the clash as well as the remnant of the Anglo-Gascon force which had not been thrown into the battle, totalling up to 5,000 men, including John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal, sought refuge in the castle of Castillon.
- 17 July 1453
19 de out. de 2014 · The only thing that can be said about the Earldom of Kendal after the Norman period is that it was given to someone with a familial connection to the king! The question then becomes why don’t we known John Beaufort as the Earl of Kendal? Well, quite simply a duke is more important than an earl.
Jean de Foix (c. 1415 – 1485) was the Captal de Buch, first Earl of Kendal (Gallicised into "Comte de Candalle"), Vicomte de Castillon, Meilles and Comte de Benauges. Biography. Jean de Foix was a Gascon noble in the service of the English.
Discover life events, stories and photos about Jean de Foix 1st Earl of Kendal (1415–1485) of Castelnau-de-Médoc, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
11 de dez. de 2022 · Children with her husband, John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal: -Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale (ca. 1448-1500), 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), other children.
