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Gaston III, Count of Foix

1331 - 1391

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Gaston III, known as Gaston Phoebus (30 April 1331 – 1 August 1391), was the eleventh Count of Foix (as Gaston III) and twenty-fourth Viscount of Béarn (as Gaston X) from 1343 until his death. Due to his ancestral inheritance, Gaston III was overlord of about ten territories located between the Pays de Gascogne and Languedoc. He took advantage of the Hundred Years' War to establish his domination over the northern Pyrenean foothills, playing on the conflicts between French and English monarchies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston III, Count of Foix has received more than 93,602 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gaston III, Count of Foix is the 2,009th most popular writer (up from 2,280th in 2019), the 2,268th most popular biography from France (up from 2,411th in 2019) and the 284th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gaston III, Count of Foix ranks 2,009 out of 5,755Before him are Nelson Algren, Gerald Gardner, Pierre Lemaitre, Juhani Aho, Joseph Heller, and Alciphron. After him are Eustache Deschamps, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Michel de Ghelderode, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, and Mustafa Balel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1331, Gaston III, Count of Foix ranks 4Before him are Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France, Catherine of Vadstena, and Coluccio Salutati. After him are Karl Thopia and Michele Steno. Among people deceased in 1391, Gaston III, Count of Foix ranks 6Before him are John V Palaiologos, Tvrtko I of Bosnia, Nicholas Kabasilas, Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy, and Muhammad V of Granada. After him is Nicholas Tavelic.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaston III, Count of Foix ranks 2,268 out of 6,011Before him are Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727), Auguste Charlois (1864), Nominoe (800), Pierre Soulages (1919), Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1324), and Pierre Lemaitre (1951). After him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), Eustache Deschamps (1346), Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802), Alexandre Darracq (1855), and Charles Diehl (1859).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gaston III, Count of Foix ranks 284Before him are Jean Bodel (1165), Philippe Sollers (1936), Isaac the Blind (1160), Paul Morand (1888), Michel Leiris (1901), and Pierre Lemaitre (1951). After him are Eustache Deschamps (1346), Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802), Jacques Amyot (1513), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Violette Leduc (1907), and Benjamin Péret (1899).