Hugo IX from Lusignan

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Hugo IX von Lusignan (* 1163 or 1168 ; † November 5, 1219 in Damiette ), called " the brown one " (le Brun), was lord of Lusignan , Count of La Marche and crusader .

family

He is the son of Hugo von Lusignan († 1169) and the Orengarde and on his father's side the grandson of Hugo VIII von Lusignan . His father died before news of his grandfather's death reached him, so he became his official successor as Lord of Lusignan. Around 1195 he also became lord of Couhé and Château-Larcher .

He is the older brother of Raoul de Lusignan , Lord of Issoudun and later Count of Eu .

His first marriage was to Agathe von Preuilly, daughter of Peter II of Preuilly and Eleanor of Mauléon. In his second marriage he married 1200/1201 Mathilde (* 1181; † 1233), the daughter of Count Vulgrin III. Taillefer from Angoulême . He had two children with his first wife:

Life

Hugo came of age around 1180 and was able to take over the management of the House of Lusignan. He belonged to the entourage of Richard the Lionheart on the Third Crusade , who, as Duke of Aquitaine, was his liege lord. On the crusade he may have met his uncle Gottfried von Lusignan and the rest of the clan residing in the Holy Land, including the other uncle Guido von Lusignan , the former king of Jerusalem . In 1193 Hugo returned with Gottfried to his Aquitaine homeland, and the following year he traveled to Germany with the Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine to buy Richard the Lionheart imprisoned there.

After Lionheart had returned to his French domains in 1194, the Lusignan hoped that he would settle an old dispute over the property of the county of La Marche . The Lusignan had an inheritance right to this, but in 1177 Count Aldebert IV had sold it to King Henry II , the father of the Lionheart. He actually intended to settle the old feud, but not by handing over the Marche, but by providing Hugo's younger brother Raoul with plenty of possessions. The Lusignans had to be content with this for the time being until Lionheart died in April 1199. Hugo seized the opportunity by imprisoning the elderly Duchess Eleonore, in whose wake he had been. Their younger son and heir Johann Ohneland was now ready to enfeoff the Lusignan with the Marche and on January 28, 1200 in Caen, he accepted Hugo's feudal oath for the Marche.

This seemed to finally end a generation conflict until Johann Ohneland kidnapped Isabella von Angoulême and married in August 1200 . However, this rich heiress was already engaged to Hugo, which is why the Lusignan's feud against the Plantagenets, which had just been settled, broke out again. The Lusignan accused the robber to King Philip II of France , who in 1204 pronounced a default judgment against John. In the subsequent fight against Johann Hugo and his uncle Gottfried took part in the retinue of Prince Arthur of Brittany . During the siege of Mirebeau in 1202, they were captured by Johann like Arthur. However, she was soon released again - presumably because Johann was looking for a peaceful settlement with the Lusignans. Hugo remained an enemy of Johann until his death in 1216.

Around 1217 Hugo and his son joined the Damiette crusade (fifth crusade). After he and the Crusaders besieged the city of Damiette in Egypt for twenty months, he died in the victorious assault on Damiette on November 5, 1219.

literature

  • Sidney Painter: The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries , in: Speculum 32,1 (1957) 27-47.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernard Itier , Chronicon , ed. by H. Duplès-Agier in: Chroniques de Saint-Martial de Limoges (1874), p. 66
  2. ↑ Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi asservati , ed. by Thomas Duffus Hardy (1837), p. 58b

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predecessor Office successor
Hugo VIII Lord of Lusignan
1172–1219 		Hugo (X./II.)
King Johann Ohneland Count of La Marche
1200–1219 		Hugo (X./II.)
personal data
SURNAME Hugo IX from Lusignan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hugo IV of La Marche; Hugo I of Angoulême; Hugo the brown
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of La Marche
DATE OF BIRTH 1163 or 1168
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1219
Place of death Damiette