Hugh X de Lusignan or Hugh V of La Marche (c. 1183 – c. 5 June 1249,

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) was Seigneur de Lusignan and

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in November 1219 and was

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by marriage. He was the son of Hugh IX.

Background

Hugh's father,

Hugh IX of Lusignan Hugh IX "le Brun" of Lusignan (1163/1168 – 5 November 1219) 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 ...

, was betrothed to marry 12-year-old Isabel of Angoulême in 1200, but King

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married her instead. As a result, the entire de Lusignan family rebelled against the English king. Hugh IX married Agathe de Preuilly instead. Hugh was born in 1183. He married Isabella, widow of King

, on 10 May 1220. By Hugh's marriage to Isabella, he became

until her death in 1246. Together they founded the abbey of Valence. In 1224, Hugh joined with King

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against the Angevins, being promised the city of

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. By 1226, he had become embittered against Louis' lack of support in conquering Gascony.

Marriage and issue

Hugh and Isabella had: * Hugh XI de Lusignan, seigneur of Lusignan,

and

(1221–1250) * Aymer de Lusignan,

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c. 1250 (c. 1222 –

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, 5 December 1260 and buried there) * Agatha de Lusignan (c. 1223 – aft. 7 April 1269), married Guillaume II de Chauvigny, seigneur of Châteauroux (1224 –

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, 3 January 1271) * Alice de Lusignan (1224 – 9 February 1256), married 1247

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* Guy de Lusignan (d. 1264), seigneur of Couhé, Cognac, and Archiac in 1249, killed at the

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. * Geoffrey de Lusignan (d. 1274), seigneur of Jarnac, married in 1259 Jeanne de Châtellerault, Vicomtess of

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(d. 16 May 1315) and had issue: ** Eustachie de Lusignan (d.

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, 1270), married 1257 Dreux III de Mello (d. 1310) * Guillaume de Lusignan (d. 1296); known in English as

William de Valence {{Infobox noble, name=William de Valence , christening_date= , noble family= , house-type= , father=Hugh X of Lusignan , mother=Isabella of Angoulême , birth_name= , birth_date={{c. 1227 , birth_place= , christening_place= , styles= , death_date ...

married

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or Munchensy (c. 1230after 20 September 1307), the only surviving child of Warin de Munchensi, lord of Swanscombe, and his first wife

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, who was one of the five daughters of

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and

Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke Isabel is a female name of Iberian origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of '' Elisabeth'' (ultimately Hebrew '' Elisheba''). Arising in the 12th century, it became popu ...

''suo jure''. * Margaret de Lusignan (c. 1226/1228–1288), married (1st) 1240/1241

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(1197–1249), married (2nd) c. 1246 Aimery IX de Thouars,

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(d. 1256), and married (3rd) Geoffrey V de Chateaubriant, seigneur of Chateubriant *

Isabella of Lusignan Isabella of Lusignan (c.1224 – 14 January 1300) was a daughter of Hugh X of Lusignan and his wife Isabella of Angoulême, Dowager Queen, Dowager Queen of England. Isabella was half-sister to Henry III of England, King Henry III of Englan ...

(1224 – 14 January 1299), lady of Beauvoir-sur-Mer et de Mercillac, married (1st)

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(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 Hugh XI de Lusignan or Hugh VI of La Marche (c. 1221 – 6 April 1250) was a 13th-century French nobleman. He succeeded his mother Isabelle of Angoulême, former queen of England, as Count of Angoulême in 1246. He likewise succeeded his father ...

. According to explanations in the manuscripts of

Gaucelm Faidit Gaucelm Faidit ( literally "Gaucelm the Dispossessed" c. 1156 – c. 1209) was a troubadour, born in Uzerche, in the Limousin (province), Limousin, from a family of knights in service of the count of Turenne. He travelled widely in France, Sp ...

's poems, this troubadour was a rival of Hugh X of Lusignan for the love of Marguerite d'Aubusson. He was buried in

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