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The hunting horn is clearly seen hanging from his neck. National Archives, Paris. 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 .
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Lusignan family. Amalric II (born c. 1155—died April 1, 1205) was the king of Cyprus (1194–1205) and of Jerusalem (1197–1205) who ably ruled the two separated kingdoms. Amalric had been constable of Palestine before he was summoned by the Franks in Cyprus to become king there after the death of his brother Guy of Lusignan.
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Other articles where Hugh X is discussed: Lusignan Family: …daughter Joan as fiancée to Hugh X (d. 1249), but the marriage never took place. Instead, after John’s death, Hugh X married his widow, Isabella, in 1220. Hugh and Isabella fluctuated in their loyalty to John’s successor (Isabella’s son), Henry III. When Louis IX of France granted Poitou as a…
They added the county of Angoulême to their holdings in 1220, when Hugh X of Lusignan married Isabella of Angoulême, daughter of Count Aymer of Angoulême and widow of John, King of England. These acquisitions produced complicated titles. For example, Hugh XI of Lusignan was Hugh VI of La Marche and Hugh II of Angoulême. Hugh XIII died in 1303.
Crusader kings. 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.
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Hugh X was succeeded by his eldest son, Hugh XI of Lusignan. According to explanations in the manuscripts of Gaucelm Faidit's poems, this troubadour was a rival of Hugh X of Lusignan for the love of Marguerite d'Aubusson. He was buried at Angoulême. Source: Biographies des troubadours ed. J. Boutière, A.-H. Schutz (Paris: Nizet, 1964) pp. 180 ...
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. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.
