Alice de Lusignan († 1256)
Alice de Lusignan (also Alix de Lusignan , † February 9, 1256 ) was a French noblewoman and Countess of Surrey by marriage .
Alice came from the noble Lusignan family in southwestern France . She was a daughter of Hugo von Lusignan , Count of La Marche, and his wife Isabella von Angoulême . Her mother, who came from Angoulême in southwestern France , was the widow of the English king Johann Ohneland . She left England after the king's death in 1217 and married Count Hugo from southwest France in 1220. Alice was a half-sister of King Henry III of England . After the death of her mother, Alice and several of her brothers accepted an invitation from Henry to England in 1247. He planned to bind his half-siblings through possessions and marriages in England in order to strengthen the bond between England and his own south-west French possessions. He married Alice in August 1247 with the still minor John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (1231-1304), a wealthy heir. These and other preferences of foreign Lusignans were criticized in England, including by chronicler Matthew Paris . Her husband came of age in 1252 and was given control of his extensive estates as the Earl of Surrey .
Alice had three children with her husband, John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey:
- Alice (also Eleanor) de Warenne (1251 – after 1282) ⚭ Henry de Percy († 1272);
- Isabella de Warenne (1253–1282) ⚭ John Balliol († 1315), 1292–1296 King of Scotland;
- William de Warenne (1256–1286) ⚭ Joan de Vere († 1293), daughter of Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford .
Alice died a month after giving birth to her third child. Surprisingly, although her husband was only 25 years old at the time, he did not remarry.
Web links
- Alice de Lusignan on thepeerage.com , accessed June 8, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Scott L. Waugh: Warenne, John de, sixth earl of Surrey (1231-1304). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alice de Lusignan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alix de Lusignan; Alice de Warenne, Countess of Surrey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-English nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | after 1220 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1256 |