House Lusignan

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Coat of arms of the Lords of Lusignan

The House of Lusignan was a family belonging to the western French nobility who named themselves after the Lusignan Castle , which they owned as feudal men of the Counts of Poitou (and Dukes of Aquitaine).

Through active participation in the crusades , relations with the crusader states in the eastern Mediterranean arose for the Lords of Lusignan from the beginning . The family became known because of the Melusin legend, which traces the sex back to the mahrte marriage of the water fairy Melusine and a man named Raymondin .

After a failed rebellion against Henry II of England, Amalrich (or Amaury or Aimerich) fled from Lusignan to the Kingdom of Jerusalem . There he arranged the marriage between his brother Guido and the heiress Sibylle. With the death of Baldwin IV and his son Sibylles, Guido von Lusignan became king of Jerusalem in 1186. Guido was captured by the Arabs. After his release, he was refused return by Konrad von Montferrat . Richard I the Lionheart of England sold him his rights to the recently conquered Kingdom of Cyprus .

With the death of his great grandson Hugo II. In 1267, the Cypriot crown of the family was lost because his successor and cousin Hugo III. , another great-grandson of Amalrich, belonged to the family of the Counts of Poitou (House Auvergne-Poitou, see Ramnulfiden ), although his descendants carried on the name Lusignan.

Hugo V had risen to become Count of the Marche through marriage . While Amalrich and Guido von Lusignan used the Crusades as younger family members to purchase property in the Middle East, the family members who remained in France expanded their property there. Raoul de Lusignan, Amalrich's youngest brother, acquired the county of Eu in Normandy by marriage , and Hugo X became Count of Angoulême . While the county of Eu was lost in the next generation but one, the family was able to hold the counties of Marche and Angoulême until 1309. After the death of the last count in 1308, his sisters ceded them to the French crown.

The Lords of Lusignan to the Crusades

The Lusignan at the time of the Crusades

Hugo I to Hugo VIII were each father and son

  1. Hugo VIII († 1173) Lord of Lusignan, Count of La Marche
    1. Hugo (* 1141; † 1169) 1165 Regent of Lusignan and La Marche ⚭ Orengarde
      1. Hugo IX the brown († 1219) Lord of Lusignan, Count of La Marche 1199, ⚭ 1) Agathe of Preuilly, ⚭ 2) after 1194 Mahaut of Angoulême († after 1233), daughter of Vulgrin III., Count of Angoulême - descendants see below
      2. Raoul I († 1219), Lord of Issoudun, Count of Eu ⚭ 1194 Alice , Countess of Eu († 1246), daughter of Count Heinrich II.
        1. Mauhaut von Lusignan († 1241) ⚭ 1236 Humphrey de Bohun († 1275) Earl of Hereford and Essex ( House Bohun )
        2. Raoul II († 1246) Lord of Issoudun, Count of Eu and Guines
          1. Marie († 1260), Countess of Eu ⚭ before 1250 Alfons of Brienne called von Akko († 1270), Count of Eu
    2. Robert (Raoul, † young around 1150)
    3. Guido (Guy, † 1194), King of Jerusalem de iure uxoris, King of Cyprus ⚭ Sibylle , Queen of Jerusalem († 1190)
    4. Amalrich (Amaury, † 1205), King of Cyprus ⚭ 1) Eschiva († before 1198), daughter of Baldwin of Ibelin , ⚭ 2) Isabella I , Queen of Jerusalem , daughter of King Amalrich I - descendants see below
    5. Gottfried I (Geoffroy, † 1216)
      1. Gottfried II. (Geoffroy, † 1247/48)
      2. Wilhelm (Guillaume)
        1. Valence of Lusignan
    6. Peter (Pierre)
    7. Wilhelm (Guillaume), Lord of Valence († before 1208) engaged in 1186 to Beatrix, daughter of Joscelin III. , Titular count of Edessa

The Counts of La Marche and Angoulême

  1. Hugo IX the brown († 1219), Count of La Marche ⚭ 1) Agathe of Preuilly, ⚭ 2) Mahaut of Angoulême († after 1233), daughter of Vulgrin III., Count of Angoulême - ancestors see above
    1. Hugo X. the Brown († 1249), Count of La Marche and Angoulême ⚭ 1220 Isabella of Angoulême († 1246), heir to Adhémar, Count of Angoulême , widow of John Ohneland , King of England
      1. Hugo XI. the Brown († 1250), Count of La Marche and Angoulême ⚭ 1238 Jolanda (Yolande), Countess of Porhoet and Penthièvre († October 10, 1272), daughter of Peter I , Duke of Brittany
        1. Hugo XII. († 1270), Count of La Marche and Angoulême
          1. Hugo XIII. the Brown († 1303), Count of La Marche and Angoulême ⚭ Beatrix († 1328/29), daughter of Hugo IV , Duke of Burgundy
          2. Guido I († 1308), Count of La Marche and Angoulême 1303
          3. Jolanda I († 1314) Countess of La Marche 1308
          4. Johanna († 1323)
          5. Maria ⚭ 1288 Stefan II , count of Sancerre († 1303/06)
          6. Isabella († after 1314) ⚭ Johann von Vesci
        2. Maria († after 1266) ⚭ Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby († 1279)
        3. Alice († May 1290) ⚭ Gilbert de Clare , Earl of Hereford and Earl of Gloucester († 1295)
      2. Guy († after October 18, 1281), Lord of Couché and Cognac
      3. Guillaume (William) de Valence († 1294/96), Lord of Pembroke
        1. Aymer de Valence († June 23, 1324), 1307 Earl of Pembroke
      4. Alix († 1256) ⚭ 1247 John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey († 1304)
      5. Aymar († December 5, 1260), Bishop of Winchester 1249
      6. Margharete († 1288) ⚭ 1) 1241/45, annulled 1246 Raimund VII. , Count of Toulouse († 1249), ⚭ 2) Amalrich II., Vice Count of Thouars († 1256), ⚭ 3) Gottfried V, Lord of Châteaubriant

The kings of Cyprus

  1. Amalrich (Amaury, † 1205), King of Cyprus ⚭ 1) Eschiva († before 1198), daughter of Baldwin of Ibelin , ⚭ 2) Isabella I , Queen of Jerusalem , daughter of King Amalrich I - ancestors see above
    1. Guido († young)
    2. Johannes († young)
    3. Hugo I († 1218), King of Cyprus 1205–1218 ⚭ Alice († 1246), daughter of Heinrich II and Isabella I , Queen of Jerusalem
      1. Maria ⚭ Walter IV of Brienne , Prince of Taranto and Lecce
      2. Isabella († 1264) ⚭ Henry of Antioch from the House of Poitou , for descendants see Ramnulfiden
      3. Heinrich I († 1254), King of Cyprus 1218–1253, Regent of Jerusalem 1246 ⚭ 1) Alix von Montferrat , daughter of Margrave Wilhelm VI. († 1225), ⚭ 2) 1237 Stephanie von Barberon, sister of King Hethum I of Armenia , ⚭ 3) 1251 Plaisance , daughter of Bohemond V , prince of Antioch
        1. Hugo II († 1267), King of Cyprus 1253–1267 ⚭ Isabella of Ibelin
    4. Bourgogne ⚭ 1) 1193, divorced 1196, Raimund VI. , Count of Toulouse († 1222), ⚭ 2) 1197 Gautier de Montfaucon († 1212), Regent of Cyprus
    5. Helvis ⚭ Raimund II. Reuben , Prince of Antioch
    6. Sibylle ⚭ Leo II , King of Armenia 1187–1219 ( Rubenids )
    7. Melisende ⚭ Bohemond IV. , Prince of Antioch

See also

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