Hugh X of Lusignan

Hugo X of Lusignan, called the Brown (Le Brun ) (1200 attested, † June 5, 1249 ) was Lord of Lusignan, Count of La Marche and Angoulême. He was the only son of Hugo IX. of Lusignan and Agathe from Preuilly.

Biography

Hugo took part together with his father in the crusade of Damietta, on which his father died in 1219 after which Hugo its successor as Lord of Lusignan and Count of La Marche took. A year later, in March or April 1220 he eventually married Isabella of Angoulême, who had once been engaged to his father, and now again lived as Queen Mother on their native territories, which then passed into the hands of the Lusignan. The interim engagement with their daughter, Joan of England, was dropped.

During the siege of Avignon in July 1226, Hugo left with Mauclerc the royal army of crusaders even before the city was taken. After the death of King Hugo put together with other discontented barons against the regency of Queen Blanche of Castile, but had to after the break, Count Theobald IV of Champagne in the spring of 1227 the regent in Vendôme subject. His eldest son was engaged to Princess Isabella and one of his daughters with Prince Alfonso of Poitiers, but in return he had Aunis and Saint -Jean- d'Angély return to the Crown.

That same year, Hugo joined again Mauclerc to, the. Itself of the young King Louis IX wanted to seize in Montlhery. After tumultuous battles Hugo subdued but in October 1229 the crown after Mauclerc had paid homage to the English king ( Hugo's stepson Henry III. ), And subsequently helped in the capture of Clisson. But Hugo was awarded to him in 1227 confiscated castles in Aunis back as a deposit and the betrothal between Princess Isabella and his son was renewed.

However, his relationship with the crown should deteriorate again in 1241 as Prince Alfonso was used in Saumur as Count of Poitou and Hugo this, and did not have to pay homage to the king. Furthermore, the king demanded the return of the pledges in Aunis for failure to marriage of his son ( who had a daughter married Mauclercs ) with Princess Isabella. Hugo conspired it with his son Count Raymond VII of Toulouse and other discontented vassals of Poitou to an uprising against the crown, this alliance was also supported by King Henry III. of England. At Christmas 1241 Hugo announced in Poitiers on his fealty to Prince Alfonso, after which he was declared in Paris by a pair court to rebel and all his possessions forfeited.

King Louis IX. and Prince Alfons moved in the spring of 1242 with 4,000 knights and 20,000 foot soldiers in the Saintonge. There, the English king had meanwhile landed, marched against the French, while Hugo occupied with his troops Saintes. On July 21, the British were defeated at the Battle of Bourg waist and pushed back to Saintes, where she and Hugo were subject to it again on the day. Hugo and Henry fled to Pons whose master but the Frenchman was. The King of England fled to the Gascony, Hugo surrendered on July 26. He had to renew his fealty towards Prince Alfons and provide them with all the controversial mortgage properties, including three own castles, pledge to it. In the subjugation ceremony Hugo was asked by a royal knights to a duel, but the king prevented his objection the duel.

In the following years, Hugo remained the king of France a devoted vassal and closed the sixth crusade against Egypt itself this 1248. There, Hugo fell on June 5, 1249 in the fighting before Damietta, where thirty years before his father died. His own son, Hugo XI. , Joined in October 1249 the Crusade and was killed in battle against the Mamelukes only a year later.

If we are to believe the notes in the manuscripts to Gaucelm Faidits poems, then Gaucelm and Hugo of Lusignan were rivals for the love of Margerethe of Aubusson.

Progeny

Hugo X. and Isabella had at least 10 children, including:

  • Hugo XI. (* 1221, † April 6, 1250 at Fariskur, Egypt), Lord of Lusignan, Count of La Marche and Angoulême
  • Agnes († after the April 7, 1269 ) ∞ Wilhelm II, lord of Châteauroux
  • ∞ August 1247 with John of Warenne, Earl of Surrey
  • ∞ first husband Moritz IV, Lord of Craon (House Craon )
  • ∞ in second marriage in 1251 with Gottfried IV of Rançon, Lord of Bourg waist, Seneschal of Poitou
  • ∞ in the first marriage in 1243 to Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse
  • ∞ in second marriage with Amalric IX. , Viscount of Thouars (House Thouars )
  • ∞ in third marriage with Geoffrey V of Châteaubriant
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