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Marie of Lusignan or Marie I de Lusignan (born 1223 in Eu, Seine-Maritime, France, died in Poitou, 1 October 1260; buried at the Abbey of Foucarmont), was the only child of Raoul II of Lusignan and his second wife, Yolande de Dreux. [1] She became Dame d'Exoudun, Countess of Eu on the death of her father in 1246.
The House of Lusignan (/ ˈ l uː z ɪ n. j ɒ n / LOO-zin-yon; French:) was a royal house of French origin, which at various times ruled several principalities in Europe and the Levant, including the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Armenia, from the 12th through the 15th centuries during the Middle Ages.
Guy was the eldest son of King Hugh IV of Cyprus and his first wife Maria of Ibelin, who was the daughter of Guy, count of Jaffa.. Guy lost his mother when he was a child in 1318, and his father, then constable of Cyprus, married his second wife Alice of Ibelin, a cousin of his first wife.
Anne of Cyprus (or Anne de Lusignan) (24 September 1418 – 11 November 1462) was a Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Louis, Duke of Savoy. She was the daughter of King Janus of Cyprus [ 1 ] and Charlotte of Bourbon ; [ 2 ] and a member of the Poitiers-Lusignan crusader dynasty.
James and Heloise of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, had twelve children: Janus or John II of Lusignan (1375 – 1432), who succeeded him as king; Philip of Lusignan (d. ca. 1430 or 1428/1432), Constable of Cyprus, unmarried, he had a natural son: Lancelot of Lusignan (d. after 1450), Cardinal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem; Henry of Lusignan (d.
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, March: the Château de Lusignan. The Château de Lusignan (in Lusignan, Vienne département, France), of which hardly any traces remain, was the ancestral seat of the House of Lusignan, Poitevin Marcher Lords, who distinguished themselves in the First Crusade and became the royal family of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Cyprus and the Armenian ...
On numerous occasions his disputes with the monks grew so violent that the duke of Aquitaine and the bishops of Poitiers and Saintes had to intercede. At one point, Pope Paschal II threatened Hugh with excommunication. [3] From these conflicts Hugh was dubbed "le diable", the devilish, by the monks of St. Maixent. [4]
When Duke William VIII of Aquitaine, Hugh's suzerain, was at war with William IV of Toulouse, Almodis persuaded Hugh to join her son's side. [1] The duke besieged Lusignan and when Hugh tried to sortie for provisions, he was slain at the gate. [1] He was succeeded by his eldest son, also named Hugh.