Hugh X de Lusignan or Hugh V of La Marche (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.
Background
Hugh's father, Hugh IX of Lusignan, was betrothed to marry 12-year-old Isabel of Angoulême in 1200,[2] but King John of England married her instead. As a result, the entire de Lusignan family rebelled against the English king.[3] Hugh IX married Agathe de Preuilly instead.[citation needed]
Hugh was born in 1183.[b] He married Isabella, widow of King John of England, on 10 May 1220.[5] By Hugh's marriage to Isabella, he became Count of Angoulême until her death in 1246. Together they founded the abbey of Valence.
In 1224, Hugh joined with King Louis VIII of France against the Angevins, being promised the city of Bordeaux.[6] By 1226, he had become embittered against Louis' lack of support in conquering Gascony.[7]
Guy de Lusignan (d. 1264), seigneur of Couhé, Cognac, and Archiac in 1249, killed at the Battle of Lewes.[citation needed][c]
Geoffrey de Lusignan (d. 1274), seigneur of Jarnac, married in 1259 Jeanne de Châtellerault, Vicomtess of Châtellerault (d. 16 May 1315) and had issue:
Eustachie de Lusignan (d. Carthage, Tunisia, 1270), married 1257 Dreux III de Mello (d. 1310)
Margaret de Lusignan (c. 1226/1228–1288), married (1st) 1240/1241 Raymond VII of Toulouse (1197–1249), married (2nd) c. 1246 Aimery IX de Thouars, Viscount of Thouars (d. 1256), and married (3rd) Geoffrey V de Chateaubriant, seigneur of Chateubriant
Isabella of Lusignan (1224 – 14 January 1299), lady of Beauvoir-sur-Mer et de Mercillac, married (1st) Maurice IV de Craon (1224/1239 – soon before 27 May 1250/1277) (2nd) Geoffrey de Rancon, seigneur of Taillebourg.
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.
^Seal of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1224. Sceau équestre: le comte à cheval, en costume de chasse, le cor au cou et tenant à la main un petit chien posé sur la croupe du cheval. Legend: * SIGILL' : HVGONIS : DE : LEZINIACO : COMITIS : ENGOLISME; Revers. Écu burelé. Le champ à arabesques. Legend: + SIGILL' “ HVGONIS : DE : LEZINIACO : COMITIS : MARCHIE.). Douet d’Arcq, Collection de Sceaux des Archives de l’Empire 1, 1 (1863), 397–398.
^Sidney Painter indicates Hugh IX's first wife as unknown.[4]
^Wagner, Anthony (1972). Historic heraldry of Britain: an illustrated series of British historical arms, with notes, glossary, and an introduction to heraldry. London, Phillimore. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-85033-022-9. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
^Vincent 1999, pp. 171, 177.
^Painter 1955, pp. 376–377.
^Painter 1955, p. 376.
^Hallam 1990, p. 136.
^Carpenter 2020, p. 30.
^Carpenter 2020, p. 43.
^Prestwich 1988, p. 46.
Sources
Carpenter, David (2020). Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-23835-8.
Hallam, Elizabeth M. (1990). Capetian France: 987–1328. Longman.
Painter, Sidney (1955). "The Houses of Lusignan and Chatellerault 1150-1250". Speculum. 30 (3 July). The University of Chicago Press: 374–384. doi:10.2307/2848076. JSTOR 2848076. S2CID 162997835.
Prestwich, Michael (1988). Edward I. University of California Press.
Vincent, Nicholas (1999). "Isabella of Angouleme: John's Jezebel". In Church, S.D. (ed.). King John: New Interpretations. The Boydell Press.
Further reading
Douet d’Arcq, Collection de Sceaux des Archives de l’Empire 1(1) (1863): 397–398 (seal of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1224 – Sceau équestre. Le comte à cheval, en costume de chasse, le cor au cou et tenant à la main un petit chien posé sur la croupe du cheval. Legend: * SIGILL' : HVGONIS : DE : LEZINIACO : COMITIS : ENGOLISME; Revers. Écu burelé. Le champ à arabesques. Legend: + SIGILL' “ HVGONIS : DE : LEZINIACO : COMITIS : MARCHIE.).