Count of Couserans
Lord of the Pays de Foix
Events
Date of Birth: between 979 and August 981.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Stasser.
Date of Death: about 1034.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Stasser. Débax gives about 1038.
Relationships
Father: Roger (I) de Comminges “le Vieux”, count of Carcassonne.
This relationship is given by Vones-Liebenstein, by Débax, and by Stasser.
Mother: Adelais.
This relationship is given by Vones-Liebenstein, by Débax, and by Stasser.
Spouse: Gersende, countess of Bigorre.
This relationship is given by the HGL (12:243), by Stasser, by Débax, and by Vones-Liebenstein.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Bernard de Foix, count of Bigorre, married Étiennette.
Roger de Foix, count of Foix.
Pierre Bernard de Foix, count of Foix, married Letgarde.
Heraclius de Foix, bishop of Bigorre.
Gerberge de Foix (about 1015 - 1 December 1049) married Ramiro I, king of Aragón.
References
Débax, Hélène. La féodalité languedocienne XIe - XIIe siècles. (Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003).
Histoire Générale de Languedoc avec des notes et les pièces justicatives Volume 12 (Toulouse: 1889).
Stasser, Thierry. “Autour de Roger le Vieux: les alliances matrimoniales des comtes de Carcassonne” in Annales du Midi: revue archéologique, historique et philologique de la France méridionale Année 1996 Volume 108 Numéro 214 pp. 165-187.
Vones-Liebenstein, Ursula. Foix-Béarn I genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.