State · 1236 – 1555

County of Foix

A state of 1236 – 1555 — 319 years in Europe. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 1236 to 1555, and those are the years drawn here.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 319 years; 1236 – 1555
Rulers: 3; the Countess of Foix
Most ground: 45,000 km²; in 1497
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: County of Foix in 1497, its borders in gold among its neighbours — County of Foix in 1497, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 45,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

County of Foix in 1236, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

County of Foix in 1497, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Gaston III of Foix	1343 – 1391	48 years	ending not on record
Isabella of Foix	1398 – 1428	30 years	ending not on record
Gaston IV of Foix	1436 – 1472	36 years	ending not on record	grandchild

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1343 – 1472. Median reign 36 years. 0 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

4,600 km² in 1236, 30,300 km² in 1555; at its largest 44,800 km² in 1486. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of the County of Foix · CC0
coat of arms, undatedBlason du comté de Foix · CC BY 3.0

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood319 years
stood longer than 75% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held45,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 33% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median36 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 89% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1204 – 1587, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1497, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1481436 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.