- Hugh XI of Lusignan
Hugh XI of Lusignan, Hugh VI of La Marche or Hugh II of Angoulême or Hugues XI & VI & II de Lusignan ( 1221 –
6 April 1250 ) succeeded his father Hugh X as Seigneur de Lusignan,Count of La Marche andCount of Angoulême onJune 5 ,1249 , and was Comte de Penthievre et de Porhoet by marriage.He was the eldest of Henry III's half-brothers. He had a daughter, Marie in 1242. [J. R. Maddicott, 'Ferrers, Robert de, sixth earl of Derby (c. 1239–1 279)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [ accessed 28 Oct 2007] ]
By his marriage in January 1236 to Yolande de Dreux (1218 –
October 10 ,1272 , buried at Villeneuve-lez-Nantes), Comtesse de Penthievre et de Porhoet, he had seven children. [Medieval Lands "Angouleme"]Children
* Hugues XII & IV & III de Lusignan. Married Jeanne, Dame de Fougères
*Alice de Lusignan of Angouleme ( after October 1236- May 1290). MarriedGilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford
* Marie de Lusignan (1242-after 11 July 1266). MarriedRobert de Ferrers ,Earl of Derby
* Isabelle de Lusignan, Dame de Belleville (1248-1304). Married Maurice de Belleville
* Yolande de Lusignan (died 10 November 1305). Married Pierre I, Sire de Preaux
* Guy de Lusignan (died 1288/89)
* Geoffrey de Lusignan (died 1264)Death
Hugh was killed on 6 April 1250 in battle in Faruskur,
Egypt . He was onCrusade with King Louis IX. [Medieval Lands !Angouleme".] His son Hugh XII succeeded him as Seigneur de Lusignan, Couhe, et de Peyrat, and asCount of La Marche andAngouleme .References
* Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 630-30, 117-28, 117-29, 135-30, 275-28.
* Medieval Lands, "Angouleme"
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