Hugo VI. from Lusignan

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Hugo VI. von Lusignan (* around 1039; † May 18, 1102 in Ramla ), called " le diable " (the devil), was lord of Lusignan , crusader and son of Hugo V of Lusignan and his wife Almodis de la Marche .

Despite his piety, he often came into conflict with the exemen Abbey of Saint-Maixent . His numerous arguments with the monks finally became so violent that the Duke of Aquitaine, the Bishops of Poitiers and Saintes, and Pope Paschal II had to intervene. He was nicknamed " the devil " by the monks of Saint-Maixent Abbey .

His son and successor Hugo VII of Lusignan emerged from his marriage to Hildegard von Thouars, daughter of Vice Count Aimery IV. Von Thouars from the house of Thouars .

In 1087 Hugo and his half-brother Raymond IV of Toulouse undertook an expedition against the Almoravids in Spain in support of his other half-brother Berenguer Ramon II , the Count of Barcelona .

In 1096 Hugo took the cross for the First Crusade at the side of his half-brothers Raimund and Berenguer. He also accompanied Raimund on the 1101 crusade . After he had reached Jerusalem on Easter 1102, he started his journey home to France. However, his ship got caught in a storm shortly after departure and had to turn back damaged. So he followed King Baldwin I's call for help from Jerusalem and joined his army to ward off an Egyptian invasion. In the second battle of Ramla that followed, Hugo fell on May 18, 1102.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis , pp 401 - 402 .
  2. ↑ Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis , p. 402 .
  3. ^ Gallia Christiana , II, Instrumenta , Paris, 1720, col. 334-335, no.XI. See P. de Monsabert (ed.), Chartes de l'abbaye de Nouaillé de 678 à 1200 , Poitiers, 1936, p. 248, no. 157 , P. Marchegay (ed.), Cartulaires du Bas Poitou , [Les Roches-Baritaud], 1877, pp. 20-23, no. XV (in particular p. 22 )
  4. ^ Wilhelm of Tire , Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum X 19 , P. de Monsabert (ed.), Chartes de l'abbaye de Nouaillé de 678 à 1200 , Poitiers, 1936, p. 248, no. 157 .
  5. ↑ Bartolf von Nangis , Gesta Francorum Hierusalem expugnantium 57 (= Recueil des historiens des croisades, Historiens occidentaux , III, Paris, 1866, pp. 532 - 533 ), Wilhelm von Malmesbury , Gesta Regum Anglorum IV § 383 (= TD Hardy (ed .), Willelmi Malmesbiriensis monachi Gesta regum Anglorum, atque Historia novella , II, London, 1840, p. 592 ).
  6. ↑ Anonymus Rhenani, Historia Gotfridi (= Recueil des historiens des croisades , Historiens occidentaux , V, Paris, 1895, pp. 483 , 511 ), Bartolf von Nangis, Gesta Francorum Hierusalem expugnantium 58 (= Recueil des historiens des croisades, Historiens occidentaux , III, Paris, 1866, p. 534 ), Fulcher von Chartres , Historia Hierosolymitana II 18.4 (= H. Hagenmeyer (ed.), Fulcheri Carnotensis Historia Hierosolymitana (1095-1127) , Heidelberg, 1913, p. 438 ), Wilhelm von Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum IV § 384 (= TD Hardy (ed.), Willelmi Malmesbiriensis monachi Gesta regum Anglorum, atque Historia novella , II, London, 1840, p. 594 ). Cf. Li Estoire de Jerusalem et d'Antioche (= Recueil des historiens des croisades, Historiens occidentaux , V, Paris, 1895, pp. 642 - 643 ), Albert von Aachen , Historia Hierosolymitanae Expeditionis IX 1 .

literature

  • Jonathan Riley Smith: The First Crusaders, 1095-1131. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK) 1998, pp. 42-43, 45-46, 96, 106, 150, 191-192, 213, 219, 250. ISBN 0521646030 .
  • Sidney Painter: The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries , in: Speculum 32,1 (1957) 27-47.

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predecessor Office successor
Hugo V. Lord of Lusignan
1071-1102 		Hugo VII
personal data
SURNAME Hugo VI. from Lusignan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hugo I of La Marche; Hugo the devil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of La Marche, crusader
DATE OF BIRTH around 1039
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1102
Place of death Ramla