Hugues de Surgères

Hugues de Surgères ( German : Hugo ; † 1212 in Akkon , today's Israel ) was a vice count of Châtellerault and a crusader . He belonged to the lords of the Surgères family .

Hugo was in 1204 by King Philip II. August with the viscounty Châtellerault invested after it recently in Poitiers in the fight against John Lackland had moved. The previous vice count, Hugo III. , had previously died in captivity of the English king. Together with the Lusignan brothers Hugues IX. Le Brun and Raoul de Issoudun he besieged Savary de Mauléon , the Seneschal of John in Poitou , in the castle of Niort around 1205/07 . In this context he was incorrectly referred to as the brother of the Lusignans in a Norman chronicle.

Hugo underscored his loyalty to King Philip II August with a homage in 1209. Apparently afterwards he went on an armed pilgrimage to the holy land where he died in Acre in 1212. In Châtellerault he was inherited by Clémence, the daughter of his predecessor Hugo III.

literature

• Sidney Painter: The Houses of Lusignan and Châtellerault 1150-1250 , in: Speculum 30 (1955), pp. 382-383

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois d'Angleterre , ed. by F. Michel (1840), p. 102
2. ↑ Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), Appendix No. 1802, p. 515
3. ↑ Bernard Itier : Chronicon , ed. by H. Duplès-Agier in: Chroniques de Saint-Martial de Limoges (1874), p. 85 and Ex Chronico Bernardi Iterii , ed. by Léopold Delisle in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 18 (1878), p. 230

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugo III	Vice-Count of Châtellerault 1204–1212	Clémence