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Hugh X de Lusignan or Hugh V of La Marche (c. 1183 – c. 5 June 1249, Angoulême) was Seigneur de Lusignan and Count of La Marche in November 1219 and was Count of Angoulême by marriage. He was the son of Hugh IX .
Hugh was the son of Guy of Lusignan, heir to the throne of Cyprus and Prince of Galilee, and his wife Marie of Bourbon, daughter of Louis I, Duke of Bourbon. He was therefore, second in the line of succession of Cyprus until the death of his father in 1343. [1]
Born in Poitou, Hugh was the eldest son of Hugh VII and of Sarracena de Lezay. [1] He married Burgondie de Rancon, Dame de Fontenay, [2] daughter of Geoffroy de Rancon, Seigneur de Taillebourg and wife Fossefie (Falsifie), Dame de Moncontour, by whom Hugh also became Seigneur de Fontenay: she died on April 11, 1169. He renounced the land of ...
Guy of Lusignan (c. 1150 – 18 July 1194) was King of Jerusalem, first as husband and co-ruler of Queen Sibylla from 1186 to 1190 then as disputed ruler from 1190 to 1192. He was also Lord of Cyprus from 1192 to 1194. A French Poitevin knight, Guy was the youngest son of Hugh VIII of Lusignan and the younger brother of Aimery of Lusignan.
He may have been intimate with the comital court of Poitou, for the Duchess Emma, wife of William IV of Aquitaine, imposed a tax on the abbey of Saint-Maixent and gave him the proceeds. His own wife was Arsendis, and he was succeeded by his son Hugh IV Brunus , not the last of that name in the family.
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On 17 September 1318, Alix married Hugh de Lusignan, son and heir of Guy de Lusignan, Constable of Cyprus. [2] A Papal dispensation, which was dated 18 June 1318, had been required. She was his second wife, as his first, her kinswoman Marie of Ibelin, had died on an unrecorded date before June 1318.
Galeran de Lusignan; Ænor or Aénor de Lusignan (b. c. 1130), married before 1144 Geoffrey or Geoffroy V de Thouars (c. 1120 – aft. 1176), Vicomte de Thouars, son of Aimery VI de Thouars, Vicomte de Thouars, and wife Agnes=Mathilde de Poitiers; He is mentioned by troubadour Jaufre Rudel in the envoi of "Quan lo rius de la fontana": [4]