Hugh X of Lusignan

Hugh X
Seal of Hugh X of Lusignan, showing him in hunting costume holding a small hunting dog behind the croup of his saddle, following the usual imagery in the seals of his family[1]
Count of La Marche
Reign	5 November 1219 – 5 June 1249
Born	c. 1183/1195
Died	1249 (aged 65–66)/1249 (aged 53–54)
Spouse	Isabel of Angoulême
Issue	Hugh XI of Lusignan Aymer de Lusignan Agathe de Lusignan Alice de Lusignan, Countess of Surrey Guy de Lusignan Geoffroi de Lusignan William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke Marguerite de Lusignan Isabella of Lusignan
House	House of Lusignan
Father	Hugh IX of Lusignan
Mother	Mathilde of Angoulême

Arms of Hugh X of Lusignan. These are the arms of Lusignan Barry argent and azure differenced by a bordure of lions rampant gules

Seal of Hugh X of Lusignan. Legend: "SIGILL(UM) HUGONIS DE LEZINIACO COMITIS ENGOLISM" (Seal of Hugh of Lusignan Count of Angoulême). On the reverse is added "COMITIS MARCHIE" (Count of La Marche). The hunting horn is clearly seen hanging from his neck. National Archives, Paris

Hugh X de Lusignan, Hugh V of La Marche or Hugh I of Angoulême or Hugues X & V & I de Lusignan (c. 1183 or c. 1195 – c. 5 June 1249, Angoulême) succeeded his father Hugh IX as Seigneur de Lusignan and Count of La Marche in November 1219 and was Count of Angoulême by marriage.

His father, Hugh IX de Lusignan was betrothed to marry 12-year-old Isabel of Angoulême in 1200,^[2] when King John of England took her for his Queen, an action which resulted in the entire de Lusignan family rebelling against the English king. Following John's death, Queen Isabella returned to her native France, where she married Hugh X de Lusignan on 10 May 1220 ^[3]

By Hugh's marriage to Isabella, he became Count of Angoulême until her death in 1246. Together they founded the abbey of Valence. They had nine children:

• Hugues XI & III & II de Lusignan, seigneur of Lusignan, Count of La Marche and Count of Angoulême (1221–1250)
• Aymer de Lusignan, Bishop of Winchester c. 1250 (c. 1222 – Paris, 5 December 1260 and buried there)
• Agathe de Lusignan (c. 1223 – aft. 7 April 1269), married Guillaume II de Chauvigny, seigneur of Châteauroux (1224 – Palermo, 3 January 1271)
• Alice de Lusignan (1224 – 9 February 1256), married 1247 John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey
• Guy de Lusignan (d. 1264), seigneur of Couhe, Cognac, and Archiac in 1249, killed at the Battle of Lewes.^[4](Prestwich states he fled after the Battle of Lewes)^[5]
• Geoffroi de Lusignan (d. 1274), seigneur of Jarnac, married in 1259 Jeanne de Châtellerault, Vicomtess of Châtellerault (d. 16 May 1315) and had issue:
  • Eustachie de Lusignan (d. Carthage, Tunisia, 1270), married 1257 Dreux III de Mello (d. 1310)
• William (or Guillaume) de Valence (d. 1296)
• Marguerite de Lusignan (c. 1226/1228–1288), married (1st) 1240/1241 Raymond VII of Toulouse (1197–1249), married (2nd) c. 1246 Aimery IX de Thouars, Viscount of Thouars (d. 1256), and married (3rd) Geoffrey V de Chateaubriant, seigneur of Chateubriant
• Isabella of Lusignan (1224 – 14 January 1299), lady of Beauvoir-sur-Mer et de Mercillac, married (1st) Maurice IV de Craon (1224/1239 – soon before 27 May 1250/1277) (2nd) Geoffrey de Rancon, seigneur of Taillebourg.

Hugh X was succeeded by his eldest son, Hugh XI of Lusignan.^[6]

According to explanations in the manuscripts of Gaucelm Faidit's poems, this troubadour was a rival of Hugh X of Lusignan for the love of Marguerite d'Aubusson.

He was buried at Angoulême.^[7]

Footnotes

1. Seal of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1224. Sceau équestre: le comte à cheval, en costume de chasse, le cor au cou et tenant à la main un petit chien posé sur la croupe du cheval. Legend: * SIGILL’ : HVGONIS : DE : LEZINIACO : COMITIS : ENGOLISME; Revers. Écu burelé. Le champ à arabesques. Legend: + SIGILL’ “ HVGONIS : DE : LEZINIACO : COMITIS : MARCHIE.). Douet d’Arcq, Collection de Sceaux des Archives de l’Empire 1, 1 (1863), 397–398.
2. Nicholas Vincent, Isabella of Angouleme: John's Jezebel, King John: New Interpretations, ed. S.D. Church, (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999), 171, 177.
3. Elizabeth M. Hallam, Capetian France: 987–1328, (Longman, 1990), 136.
4. The queens of England and their times: From Matilda, queen of William the Conqueror, to Adelaide, queen of William the Fourth, Volume 1 by Francis Lancelott (D. Appleton and Co., 1859), pg. 97
5. Michael Prestwich, Edward I, (University of California Press, 1988), 46.
6. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest; with Anecdotes of Their Courts by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (Lea and Blanchard, 1850, Great Britain), pg. 45
7. The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall (Genealogical Publishing Com, 1999), p. 184

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