Marriage and Children
In 1441, she married Gaston IV, count of Foix, and had the following children with him:
- Gaston (1444–1470), he married Princess Magdalena of Valois of France in 1462 and their children Francis and Catherine both succeeded to Navarre in turn upon the death of their grandmother Eleanor
- Peter (1449–1490), cardinal and bishop of Arles
- John (1450–1500), viscount of Narbonne, whose daughter Germaine of Foix was second wife to Ferdinand II of Aragon,
- Mary (1452–1467), married William VIII, marquess of Montferrat
- Margaret of Foix (1453–1486), married Francis II, duke of Brittany
- Joan (1454–1476), married John V, count of Armagnac
- James (1455–1500), count of Cortes, married Catherine of Beaumont
- Catherine (b. 1455), married Gaston II de Foix, Count of Candale and Benauges
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