Anne of Foix-Candale
Anne de Foix - Candale (* 1484, † July 26, 1506 in oven ) was a French countess out of the house Grailly and by marriage Queen of Bohemia and Hungary.
Life
Anne was a daughter of Count Gaston II de Foix - Candale and his first wife Catharine, which in turn was a daughter of Count Gaston IV of Foix and Queen Eleanor of Navarre. She came from his father's side a collateral line of the house Grailly, which came at the beginning of the 15th century in the possession of the county of Foix. Anne's mother was descended from the main line of Graillys which held this county and was therefore a cousin of Anne's father.
After her father's death in 1500, Anne was held on uptake of King Louis XII yard. of France. She was a cousin of Queen Anne of Brittany, who was a Godmother Annes.
At the request of King Louis XII. Anne was married on September 29, 1502 in White Castle with King Vladislav II of Bohemia and Hungary, son of the Polish king Casimir IV Andreas and the Archduchess and Princess Elisabeth of Habsburg Hungarian. At the same time she was there crowned Queen of Hungary. Louis XII. gave her a dowry of 40,000 ducats into the marriage. He wanted to do with this marriage, to preserve the continuity of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Bohemia and Hungary, in order to prevent the succession of the house of Habsburg, the rival of France for supremacy in Europe, in these two kingdoms.
From this marriage two children were born
- Anna (* 1503, † 1547), heiress of Bohemia and Hungary
- Ludwig II (* 1506, † 1526), the last king of the dynasty of the Jagiellonian
Queen Anne died as a result of the birth of her son and was only in the oven, then buried with her husband in 1516 at Székesfehérvár. Due to an agreement with her husband, Emperor Maximilian I of 20 March 1506 which resulted in the double wedding in Vienna on 22 July 1515, the intentions of the French king should be thwarted. Because with the heritage loose her son's death at the Battle of Mohács ( 1526) should reach the Habsburgs Annes same daughter still in the possession of the crowns of Hungary and Bohemia, where they remained until 1918.