Anna of Foix-Candale
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Anna of Foix (1484 – 26 July 1506) was the Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia.
She was born the daughter of Gaston II de Foix, Count of Candale and Benauges and Catherine, Infanta of Navarre. Her mother Catherine was the youngest daughter of Gaston, Count of Foix, and Eleanor of Aragon, who herself became in 1479 for a couple of weeks the reigning queen of Navarre and died. Anna's father was a relative of her mother's father. Anna was born during the reign of her first cousin Francis I of Navarre. Her other cousin Catherine of Foix soon ascended the Navarrese throne with her husband John of Albret.
The elderly, thrice-widowed and childless King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary of the Jagiellon dynasty (1456-1516) had been searching a wife able to bear heirs to him. His sights were not set on a high-level or powerful alliance, and a lady only distantly related to royalty was acceptable. On 6 October 1502 Ladislaus wed the 18-year-old Anna.
Though Anne was his fourth wife, she gave birth to his only surviving legitimate children, who were:
- Anna of Bohemia and Hungary, later Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia. Married Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and they inherited Bohemia and what was left of Hungary.
- Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, King of Hungary and Bohemia, killed 1526.
