Re: FOIX = FOY
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Re: FOIX = FOY
2/26/02
Beverly:Stumbled upon your post while looking for Gaston-Foix links (it gets confusing, trust me.)In any event, if you are still wondering:
The name "Foix" originates from the County of Foix in Southern France.The Counts of Foix were quite prominent in the middle ages, ruling primarily from Carcassonne.The most famous of the bunch was Gaston III Phoebus (1331-1391).The last Count of Foix was Henri de Bourbon (Henri III of Navarre), who became King Henry IV of France in 1594.After that Foix was subsumed into the Crown lands.
Foix was a hotbed of religious dissent, going back as far as the Albigensians in the 1300s.The region embraced Calvinism in the late 1500s, its adherents becoming known as Huguenots.It is not at all surprising that many of the Foix clan fled France when Richelieu and Mazarin started tightening the screws on French Protestants in the 1630s-40s.These Huguenot refugees took refuge primarily Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern Ireland.In Ireland (whre my Hughie ancestors ended up) the name was anglicized to Foy and sometimes Fox.
If you'd like further info, drop me a line.
Pat Gaston
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