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Joan de Clare. Father. Hugh XI of Lusignan, Count of La Marche and of Angoulême. Mother. Yolande de Dreux, Countess of Penthièvre and of Porhoet. Alice de Lusignan (or Alice of Angoulême) (born after October 1236 – May 1290) was the first wife of Marcher baron Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, and half-niece of King Henry III of ...
- Hugh XI of Lusignan, Count of La Marche and of Angoulême
Isabella of Angoulême. Alice de Lusignan, Countess of Surrey (1224 – 9 February 1256) was a uterine half-sister of King Henry III of England and the wife of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey. Shortly after her arrival in England from France in 1247, her half-brother arranged her marriage to the Earl, which incurred some resentment from the ...
- 1224, Lusignan, France
- Isabella of Angoulême
- Eleanor de Warenne, Isabella de Warenne, William de Warenne
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First House of Lusignan Origins Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (1412/16), March: the Château de Lusignan. The Château de Lusignan, near Poitiers, was the principal seat of the Lusignans. It is shown at its height in the March illumination in the Trés Riches Heures of the Duc de Berry (circa 1412). Louis XIV fortified it and it was ...
When Alice de Lusignan was born after October 1236, in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France, her father, Hugues X de Lusignan Comte de la Marche, was 8816 and her mother, Isabelle d'Angoulême Queen of England, was 8813. She married John de Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey in August 1247, in England.
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.
Brief Life History of Alice. When Alice de Lusignan Countess of Surrey was born about 1224, in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France, her father, Hugues X de Lusignan Comte de la Marche, was 42 and her mother, Isabelle d'Angoulême Queen of England, was 37. She married John de Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey in August 1247, in England.
She was Alice de Lusignan – King Henry III’s niece – a possible reason for the relatively leniency with which Gilbert found himself being treated by Henry III during the baron’s war. Having said that the pair separated in 1267. Apparently Alice had taken a shine to her cousin young Prince Edward who would one day be Edward I.
