Background
Born about 1470 he was the ninth son of Gaston IV, Count of Foix and Bigorre, Viscount of Béarn, and his wife Eleanor (or Leonora) of Aragon, Queen of Navarre.
Born about 1470 he was the ninth son of Gaston IV, Count of Foix and Bigorre, Viscount of Béarn, and his wife Eleanor (or Leonora) of Aragon, Queen of Navarre.
He was Governor of Béarn and Lieutenant-General of Lower Navarre for the king. Jacques also had two illegitimate children by unknown mistresses: Frederic de Foix (d 1537), Lord d"Almenèches, and Jacques de Foix (d 7 April 1535), Bishop of Oloron and Lescar. Jacques de Foix, Inft of Navarre died in 1500A.D.