Hugh XI of Lusignan

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 April1250) succeeded his father Hugh X as Seigneur de Lusignan, Count of La Marche and Count of Angoulême on June 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). Married Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford
* Marie de Lusignan (1242-after 11 July 1266). Married Robert 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 on Crusade with King Louis IX. [Medieval Lands !Angouleme".] His son Hugh XII succeeded him as Seigneur de Lusignan, Couhe, et de Peyrat, and as Count of La Marche and Angouleme.

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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