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In the 1170s, Aimery of Lusignan (c.1145-1205) (a younger son of Hugh VIII (died 1165)) arrived in Jerusalem, having been expelled from his realm by Richard the Lionheart, then acting Duke of Aquitaine, which included the family lands of Lusignan near Poitiers.
Lusignan Family, noble family of Poitou (a province of western France) that provided numerous crusaders and kings of Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Lesser Armenia. A branch of the family became counts of La Marche and Angoulême and played a role in precipitating the baronial revolt in England against King.
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Dec 19, 2020 · Aymer de Lusignan, Bishop of Winchester was born on 1222 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou-Chantres, France to Hugh X de Lusignan, Count de la March and Isabella D'Angouleme de Lusignan. Aymer never married as he became Bishop of Winchester. He passed away on December 4 or 5, 1260 and is buried in Paris, France.
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The Lusignan family originated in the Poitou near Lusignan in western France in the early tenth century. By the end of the eleventh century, they had risen to become the most prominent petty lords in the region from their castle at Lusignan.
The Lusignan family was an extremely powerful family of barons in medieval Poitou, Angouleme and Norman England. There were at least fourteen generations of Hugues de Lusignan.
Feb 17, 2011 · To further secure his hold on La Marche, Hugh le Brun, Lord of Lusignan arranged a marriage between himself and Isabella, the daughter of Count Aymer of Angoulême. The support of the Lusignans...
The fact that, once the Crusades began, every head of the house of Lusignan was a Crusader, and that the family supplied three kings of Jerusalem and the dynasty which ruled Cyprus until 1474, has centered on it the attention of specialists in the history of the Crusades and the Latin East.
