Hugo of Lusignan († 1169)

Hugo von Lusignan († 1169 ) from the noble family Lusignan was regent of the lordship of Lusignan and the county of La Marche . He was the son of Hugo VIII of Lusignan , Lord of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, and his wife Bourgogne de Rançon .

Hugo, the eldest son and designated heir, ruled his father's lands when he went on a crusade to the Holy Land. There his father was captured by Muslims in 1164 and imprisoned in Aleppo , where he finally died in 1173. Since Hugo himself died in 1169, it was not he, but his son Hugo, a grandson of Hugo VIII, whose successor was Hugo IX.

With his wife named Orengarde he had two sons and a daughter:

• Hugo IX of Lusignan († 1219), Lord of Lusignan and Count of La Marche;
• Rudolf von Lusignan († 1219), Lord of Issoudun, Count of Eu;
• Alamanda († after 1169).

literature

• Sidney Painter: The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries , in: Speculum 31,1 (1957) 27-47.

Web links

• Hugues de Lusignan at fmg.ac (English)