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{{Short description|French military leader}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}}
[[Image:Odet de Foix, Seigneur de Lautrec.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, sketched by [[Jean Clouet]] (early 16th century).]]
'''Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec''' (1485 &ndash; 15 August 1528) was a French military leader. As Marshal of France, he commanded the campaign to conquer Naples, but died from the [[bubonic plague]] in 1528.
==Biography==
Odet was the son of Jean de Foix-Lautrec{{sfn|Tewes|2011|p=754}} and Jeanne d'Aydie. He and his two brothers, the [[Thomas de Foix-Lescun|seigneur de Lescun]] and the [[André de Foix|seigneur de l'Esparre or Asparros]], served [[Francis I of France]] as captains; and the influence of their sister, [[Françoise de Foix|Françoise de Châteaubriant]], who became the king's mistress, gained them high office.{{sfn|Woodcock|2015|p=3}}{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
In 1516, as marshal of France, Odet was made governor-general of the [[Milanese duchy]],{{sfn|de Pins|2007|p=261}} but his severity made the French occupation insupportable.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He was present at the [[Field of the Cloth of Gold]] being in Francis I's royal entourage.{{sfn|Woodcock|2015|p=1}}
Odet arrived to resume the siege of Brescia, and on 26 May 1521, the Spanish and German garrison surrendered.{{sfn|Mallett|Shaw|2012|p=133}} The surrender was caused by the dissonance between the two factions, while Brescia was given over to Venetian commissioner, Andrea Gritti.{{sfn|Mallett|Shaw|2012|p=133}} In 1521 he succeeded in defending the Milan against the [[Spain|Spanish]] army. In 1522, under pressure from unpaid Swiss troops,{{sfn|Jones|2001|p=188}} Odet attacked entrenched Spanish-Imperial positions and was completely defeated at the [[Battle of Bicocca]], losing Milan in the process.{{sfn|Potter|2008|p=8}} Odet fled back to France, and supervised the hostage exchange of Francis' sons following the latter's defeat at [[Battle of Pavia]].{{sfn|Woodcock|2015|p=4}}
Sometime after his wife's death, Odet married Jeanne de Croy.{{sfn|Soen|2016|p=97}} In 1527 he received command of the army to conquer the [[kingdom of Naples]].{{sfn|Armstrong|2003|p=17}} The defection of [[Andrea Doria]] and an outbreak of the [[Bubonic plague|plague]] or cholera in the French camp brought on a fresh disaster.{{sfn|Knecht|1997|p=10}}{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Odet himself caught a disease and died on 17 August 1528.{{sfn|Knecht|1997|p=10}}
==Marriage==
Odet married Charlotte d'Albret (1495–1527) in 1520.{{sfn|Soen|2016|p=97}} They had:
* Gaston (1522–1528)
* Henry (1523–1540){{sfn|Woodcock|2015|p=10}}
* Claude (died 1549){{sfn|Walsby|2007|p=107}}
* Francis (died 1528)
==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book |title=France, 1500-1715 |first=Alastair |last=Armstrong |publisher=Pearson Education |year=2003 }}
*{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Lautrec, Odet de Foix, Vicomte de|volume=16|page=289}}
*{{cite book |title=Catherine de'Medici |first=R.J.  |last=Knecht |publisher=Routledge |year=1997 }}
*{{cite book |title= The Italian Wars 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe |first1=Michael Edward |last1=Mallett |first2=Christine |last2=Shaw |publisher=Routledge |year=2012 }}
*{{cite book |title=Letters and letter fragments |first=Jean |last=de Pins |publisher=Librairie Droz |editor-first=J.N. |editor-last=Pendergrass |year=2007 }}
*{{cite book |title=Renaissance France at War: Armies, Culture and Society, C.1480-1560 |first=David |last=Potter |publisher=Boydell Press |year=2008 }}
*{{cite book |chapter=The Chievres Legacy, the Croy Family and Litigation in Paris. Dynastic Identities between the Low Countries and France (1519–1559) |first=Violet |last=Soen |title=Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe: Rulers, Aristocrats and the Formation of Identities |editor-first1=Liesbeth |editor-last1=Geevers |editor-first2=Mirella |editor-last2=Marini |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2016}}
*{{cite book |title=The Art of War in the Western World |first=Archer |last=Jones |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2001 }}
*{{cite book |title=Kampf um Florenz: die Medici im Exil (1494–1512) |language=German |first=Götz-Rüdiger |last=Tewes |publisher=Bohlau |year=2011 }}
*{{cite book |title=The Counts of Laval: Culture, Patronage and Religion in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century France |first=Malcolm |last=Walsby |publisher=Ashgate |year=2007 }}
*{{Cite journal|last=Woodcock|first=Philippa|year=2015 |title=Living like a king? The entourage of Odet de Foix, vicomte de Lautrec, governor of Milan.|journal=Royal Studies Journal|volume=2|issue=2|pages=1–24|doi=10.21039/rsj.v2i2.30|issn=2057-6730|doi-access=free}}
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[[Category:1485 births]]
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[[Category:House of Foix|Odet]]
[[Category:Viscounts of Lautrec|Odet]]
[[Category:Marshals of France]]
[[Category:Military leaders of the Italian Wars]]
[[Category:16th-century deaths from plague (disease)]]
[[Category:Court of Francis I of France]]
[[Category:People of the War of the League of Cognac]]