Gaston II of Foix - Bearne

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Count Gaston II de Foix (1308 - Count 1315 , aged 8 - siege of Algeciras , Spain , September 1343 , aged 35). He was also Viscount Gaston IX de Bearn. He started ruling his states afer 1329 , aged 21 , after enclosing his mother at Foix and then Orthez He was the eldest son of six siblings and three bastards of Count Gaston I de Foix , Viscount Gaston VIII de Bearn, (1289 - Inherits 1302, aged 13 - 1315 , aged 26) and Jeanne d´Artois , daughter of Philip de Conches.

His actions in 1339 on the conquest of the castle of Tartas led him to receive the title of Viscount de Lautrec. He died in the Siege of Algeciras , South Spain , in September 1343 , a western European Crusade in the South of Spain led by King Alfonso XI of Castile.