Hugh "le Brun" de Lusignan

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• Alternate birth: 1168

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Sire de Lusignan, Couhé, and Château-Larcher; Count of La Marche. On crusade from 1190 on.

Grandson of Hugh VIII.

He was definitely married to a Mathilde, commonly called Mathilde of Angoulême, who was a daughter of Wulgrin III, Count of Angoulême. However, it's unclear whether this Mathilde was his only wife, and whether she or some previous wife (theorized by some as Agatha de Preuilly, daughter of Peter de Preuilly) was the mother of Hugh X.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1185
• Alternate birth: Abt 1195
• Alternate death: 5 Jun 1249, Angoulême, Aquitaine, France

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Seigneur de Lusignan; Count of La Marche; Count of Angouleme.

Also called Hugh V of La Marche; Hugo de la Marche; Hugh I of Angouleme; Hugh le Brun.

"His father, Hugh IX de Lusignan was betrothed to marry 12-year-old Isabel of Angoulême in 1200, when King John of England took her for his Queen, an action which resulted in the entire de Lusignan family rebelling against the English king. Following John's death, Queen Isabella returned to her native France, where she married Hugh X de Lusignan on 10 May 1220. By Hugh's marriage to Isabella, he became Count of Angoulême until her death in 1246. Together they founded the abbey of Valence." [Wikipedia]

Hugh married Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England between 10 Mar 1220 and 22 Apr 1220 in Angoulême, Aquitaine, France. Isabel (daughter of Adémar and Alix de Courtenay) died on 31 May 1246; was buried in Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 2 Feb 1266, Warren, Sussex, England

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Also called Alfais, Alix de Lusignan.

Alice married John de Warenne in Aug 1247. John (son of William de Warenne and Maud Marshal, Marshal Of England) was born after Jul 1231; died about 29 Sep 1304 in Kennington, near London, England; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Count of La Marche, (as Hugues III) Lord of Lusignan and Fougeres, and (as Hugues II) Count of Angoulême, 1246-1250. He agreed to serve Alphonso, Count of Poitiers, in the Seventh Crusade for one year and died in Egypt, most probably at the battle of El Mansûra, 7 Feb 1250, or else during the retreat to Damietta, 6 Apr 1250." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Hugh married Yolande of Brittany in 1236. Yolande (daughter of Pierre de Braine and Alix de Thouars) was born in 1218 in Dreux, France; died on 16 Oct 1272 in Château Bouteville, Angoumois, France; was buried in Villeneuve near Nantes, Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1226
• Alternate birth: Aft 1225, Valence, Couhé-Vérac, Vienne, Poitou, France
• Alternate death: Bef 18 May 1296

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Also called Guillaume de Lusignan; Guillaume de Valence.

Seigneur of Valence; Constable of Goodrich and Pembroke Castles 1247; Warden of the Town and the Castle of Hertford 1247, 1251; Steward of the Manors of Stamford and Grantham, Lincolnshire 1258; Privy Councillor; Constable of Kilgarren Castle 1275; Seneschal of the Agenois 1279; Constable and Keeper of Bergevenny Castle 1281; Constable of Kilgaren Castle 1282; Guardian and Lieutenant of England 1285; and, in right of his wife, Lord (sometimes styled Earl) of Pembroke, and Lord of the Towns of Ross, Carnbothe, and Clumene, co. Wexford, Ireland.

From Wikipedia:

"William de Valence (died 18 May 1296), born Guillaume de Lusignan, was a French nobleman and knight who became important in English politics due to his relationship to Henry III. He was heavily involved in the Second Barons' War, supporting the King and Prince Edward against the rebels led by Simon de Montfort. [...]

"He was the fourth son of Isabella of Angoulême, widow of king John of England, and her second husband, Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, and was thus a half-brother to Henry III of England, and uncle to Edward I. William was born in the Cistercian abbey in Valence, Couhé-Vérac, Vienne, Poitou, near Lusignan, sometime in the late 1220s (his elder sister Alice was born in 1224).

"The French conquest of Poitou in 1246 created great difficulties for William's family, and so he and his brothers, Guy de Lusignan and Aymer, accepted Henry III's invitation to come to England in 1247. The king found important positions for all of them; William was soon married to a great heiress, Joan de Munchensi or Munchensy [...]

"This favouritism to royal relatives was unpopular with many of the English nobility, a discontent which would culminate in the Second Barons' War. It did not take long for William to make enemies in England. From his new lands in South Wales, he tried to regain the palatine rights which had been attached to the Earldom of Pembroke, but his energies were not confined to this. The King heaped lands and honours upon him, and he was soon thoroughly hated as one of the most prominent of the rapacious foreigners. Moreover, some trouble in Wales led to a quarrel between him and Simon de Montfort, who was to become the figurehead for the rebels. He refused to comply with the provisions imposed on the King at Oxford in 1258, and took refuge in Wolvesey Castle at Winchester, where he was besieged and compelled to surrender and leave the country.

"However, in 1259 William and de Montfort were formally reconciled in Paris, and in 1261 Valence was again in England and once more enjoying the royal favour. He fought for Henry at the disastrous Battle of Lewes, and after the defeat again fled to France, while de Montfort ruled England. However, by 1265 he was back, landing in Pembrokeshire, and taking part in the Siege of Gloucester and the final royalist victory at Evesham. After the battle he was restored to his estates and accompanied Prince Edward, afterwards Edward I, to Palestine.

"From his base in Pembrokeshire he was a mainstay of the English campaigns against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and later Dafydd ap Gruffudd; in the war of 1282-3 that led to the conquest of Wales he negotiated the surrender of one of Dafydd's last remaining castles, Castell-y-Bere, with its custodian, Cynfrig ap Madog. He also went several times to France on public business and he was one of Edward's representatives in the famous suit over the succession to the crown of Scotland in 1291 and 1292."

William married Joan de Munchensy on 13 Aug 1247. Joan (daughter of Warin de Munchensy and Joan Marshal) died before 30 Sep 1307. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 15 Jan 1256, of Bromfield, Denbighshire, Wales
• Alternate death: 15 Dec 1286, Croydon, Surrey, England

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Killed at a tournament; said to have been ambushed and slain by rivals.

William married Joan de Vere in 1284. Joan (daughter of Robert de Vere and Alice de Sanford) died about 23 Nov 1293; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1251

Eleanor married Henry de Percy on 8 Sep 1268 in York, Yorkshire, England. Henry (son of William de Percy and Ellen de Balliol) was born about 1235 in of Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England; died on 29 Aug 1272; was buried in Sallay Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Robert de Ferrers after 26 Jul 1249. Robert (son of William de Ferrers and Margaret de Quincy) was born about 1239; died about 1279; was buried in St. Thomas Priory, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of la Marche and Angoulême. In July 1270, he accompanied Louis IX of France on the Eighth Crusade, but he died shortly thereafter on the expedition to Tunis.

Hugh married Jeanne de Fougères on 29 Jan 1254 in Fougères, Brittany, France. Jeanne (daughter of Raoul de Fougères and Isabel de Craon) died after 18 Jun 1273; was buried in Sauvigny, Meuse, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alice de la Marche.

Alice married Gilbert de Clare in 1253. Gilbert (son of Richard de Clare and Maud de Lacy) was born on 2 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England; died on 7 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 5 Oct 1305

Isabel married John de Hastings after 15 Jul 1275. John (son of Henry de Hastings and Joan de Cantelowe) was born in of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 10 Feb 1313; was buried in Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married John Comyn before 3 Sep 1296. John (son of John Comyn and Eleanor de Balliol) was born in of Badenoch, Scotland; died on 10 Feb 1306 in Dumfries, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]