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Hugh IX "le Brun" of Lusignan (1163/1168 – 5 November 1219) [1] was the grandson of Hugh VIII. His father, also Hugh (b. c. 1141), was the co-seigneur of Lusignan from 1164, marrying a woman named Orengarde before 1162 or about 1167 and dying in 1169. Hugh IX became seigneur of Lusignan in 1172, seigneur of Couhé and Chateau-Larcher in the ...
Nov 6, 1991 · Hugh IX the Brown of Lusignan or Hugh IV of La Marche or Hugues IX & IV le Brun de Lusignan (1163 or 1168 – 5 November 1219) was the grandson of Hugh VIII. His father, Hugues de Lusignan, b. c. 1141, Co-Seigneur de Lusignan in 1164, married Orengarde N before 1162 or about 1167 and died in 1169 leaving a six or one-year-old son.
- Limoges, Limousin
- circa 1163
- "Le Brun", "The Brown"
- Limoges, Limousin, France
Hugh (Hugues) I, lord of Lusignan, was a vassal of the counts of Poitiers in the 10th century. Early members of the family participated in the Crusades, but it was Hugh VIII’s sons who established the family fortunes. Hugh VIII’s eldest son and successor, Hugh IX the Brown (d. 1219
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The Château de Lusignan, near Poitiers, was the principal seat of the Lusignans—it was destroyed during the Wars of Religions, and only its foundations remain within Lusignan. According to legend the earliest castle was built by the folklore water-spirit Melusine. The lords of the castle at Lusignan were counts of La Marche, over which they frequen...
The Lusignans were among the French nobles who made great careers in the Crusades. An ancestor of the later Lusignan dynasty in the Holy Land, Hugh VI of Lusignan, was killed in the east during the Crusade of 1101. Another Hugh arrived in the 1160s and was captured in a battle with Nur ad-Din. In the 1170s, Amalric arrived in Jerusalem, having been...
At that point, Hugh of Antioch, whose maternal grandfather had been Hugh I of Cyprus, a male heir of the original Lusignan dynasty, took the name Lusignan, thus founding the second House of Lusignan, and managed to succeed his deceased cousin as King of Cyprus. These "new" Lusignans remained in control of Cyprus until 1489; in Jerusalem (or, more a...
In the thirteenth century, the Lusignans also intermarried with the royal families of the Principality of Antioch and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. The Hethoumids ruled Cilicia until the murder of Leon IV in 1341, when his cousin Guy de Lusignan (who took the name of Constantine II of Armenia) was elected king. The Lusignan dynasty was of French...
Cyprus was a coveted prize for many commercial and strategic reasons. Between 1489 and 1573, the island was controlled by the Republic of Venice, from where they engaged in extensive trade with the Muslim world, often despite papal bans. Then the island was under Ottoman rule until they ceded control but not sovereignty to the British in 1878. The ...
Geōrgiadēs, Kleanthēs P. 1999. History of Cyprus. Nicosia, CY: Demetrakis Christophorou. ISBN 9789963568550.Nikolaou-Konnarē, Angel, and Christopher David Schabel. 2005. Cyprus: Society and Culture 1191-1374. The Medieval Mediterranean, v. 58. Leiden, NL: Brill. ISBN 9789004147676.Puchner, Walter, Nicos C. Conomis, Philippe de Mézières, and William Emmet Coleman. 2006. The Crusader Kingdom of Cyprus—A Theatre Province of Medieval Europe? Including a Critical Edition of the C...Wallace, Paul W., and Andreas G. Orphanides. 1990. Sources for the History of Cyprus. Albany, NY: Institute of Cypriot Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York. ISBN 9780965170406.member of Lusignan family. …VIII’s eldest son and successor, Hugh IX the Brown (d. 1219), held the countship of La Marche. In 1200 his fiancée, Isabella of Angoulême, was taken for wife by his feudal lord, King John of England. This outrage caused Hugh to turn to the king of France, Philip II Augustus,….
Hugh X de Lusignan, Hugh V of La Marche or Hugh I of Angoulême (c. 1183 – c. 5 June 1249, Angoulême) was Seigneur de Lusignan and Count of La Marche in November 1219 and was Count of Angoulême by marriage. He was the son of Hugh IX.
When Hugh IX of Lusignan was born about 1163, in Lusignan, Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, his father, Hugues de Lusignan, was 24 and his mother, Orengarde de Rancon, was 24. He married Agathe de Preuilly in 1182. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
