Hugh IX of Lusignan
{{Short description|12th century French aristocrat}}
File:Hugo XIII of Lusignan.jpg
Hugh IX "le Brun" of Lusignan (1163/1168 – 5 November 1219){{sfn|Pollock|2015|p=96}} was the grandson of Hugh VIII. His father, also Hugh (b. c. 1141), was the co-seigneur of Lusignan from 1164, marrying a woman named Orengarde before 1162 or about 1167 and dying in 1169. Hugh IX became seigneur of Lusignan in 1172, seigneur of Couhé and Chateau-Larcher in the 1190s, and Count of La Marche (as Hugh IV) on his grandfather's death. ({{ca.|1165–1171}}) Hugh IX died on the Fifth Crusade at the siege of Damietta on 5 November 1219.{{sfn|Pollock|2015|p=96}}
Hugh IX is mentioned under the pseudonym Maracdes ("Emerald") in two poems by the troubadour Gaucelm Faidit, according to the Occitan razós to these poems.
Marriage and issue
Hugh's first wife was possibly Agathe de Preuilly, daughter of Peter (Pierre) II de Preuilly and Aenor de Mauleon. Their marriage was annulled in 1189.
- Hugh X of Lusignan married Isabella of Angoulême{{sfn|Pollock|2015|p=96,98}}
- Agathe of Lusignan, married c. 1220 Geoffroi V Seigneur de Pons
His second wife, married c. 1200, was Mathilde of Angoulême (1181 – 1233),{{sfn|Church|1999|p=179}} daughter of Wulgrin III of Angoulême, Count of Angoulême.{{sfn|d'Arras|2012|p=239 n55}}
See also
Notes
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Sources
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- {{cite book |first=Jean |last=d'Arras |title=Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan |translator1-first=Donald |translator1-last=Maddox |translator2-first=Sara |translator2-last=Sturm-Maddox |publisher=The Pennsylvania State University Press |year=2012 }}
- {{cite book |title=King John: New Interpretations |editor-first=S. D. |editor-last=Church |publisher=The Boydell Press |year=1999 }}
- {{Cite journal|last=Painter|first=Sidney|author-link=Sidney Painter|title=The Houses of Lusignan and Chatellerault 1150-1250|journal=Speculum|year=1955|volume=30|issue=3|pages=374–384 |doi=10.2307/2848076|jstor=2848076|s2cid=162997835|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2848076|url-access=subscription}}
- {{Cite book|last=Pollock|first=Melissa A.|title=Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296: Auld Amitie|year=2015|location=Woodbridge|publisher=The Boydell Press|isbn=9781843839927|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8aGfBwAAQBAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Power|first=Daniel|title=The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries|year=2004|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521571722|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vlts5rwsNosC}}
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Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:Christians of the Third Crusade
Category:Christians of the Fifth Crusade