Family:
Children:
- Hugh II De Lusignan Death: After 1009
Bibliography
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Channing, Adrian, LUSIGNAN's. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 9/3/1999. Subject: LUSIGNAN's Part x/4. Available at (part 1) https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/qPJOP4EsTlU/m/o-YnYTce_boJ, (part 2) https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/0y-rBuRVx2Y/m/2mNBZCOqJmsJ, (part 3) https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/r91Bi_SkrLk/m/CY_IUqrn4PkJ, and (part 4) https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/IcOliVuKmy0/m/iby6bN00hOMJ. Author address: AChanning at compuserve dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Adrian Channing SGM 9/3/1999-A].
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Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. III.4 (#601-#820): Das Feudale Frankreich und sein Einfluss auf die Welt des Mittelalters. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1989. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES III.4 #[0-9]*].
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- [Ref: ES III.4 #813]
Research Notes:
Sire of Lusignan in Poitiou and vassal of Counts of Poitiers in the late 9th
or 10th century. [Ref: Adrian Channing SGM 9/3/1999-A]
There is no evidence supporting a link with the Merovingian dynasty as shown
in the book The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. [Ref: Adrian Channing SGM
9/3/1999-A]
The castle at Lusignan is said to be have been built by Raymond, a relative of
the Counts POITIERS and his mythical wife, the spirit of the fountain of
Lusignan. He broke his vow and spied her on a Saturday, to find that she had
turned into a serpent from the waist down. She flew out of the castle window
never to be seen again, but on the death of a member of the Lusignan family,
she is heard crying out. Another source states she was a dau. of the fairy
Pressine whom she had shut up in a mountain to avenge his wrongs, but he caste
a spell that she should metamorphosed every Saturday, unless and until she
found an husband who would vow not to see her on Saturdays. This history is
related at length with the adventures of Melusine's numerous progeny: by JEAN
d'ARRAS, in his chronique de la princesse, written in 1387 at the desire of
JOHN Dk of BERRY, for the amusement of the duke and of his sister Marie of
France, duchess of Bar. Some writers have supposed Melusine to be a corruption
of mere Lucine, the deity invoked in childbirth, widow of a king of Jerusalem,
and with Mevrant wife of GEOFFROI de Lusignan.
She has also been identified as Morphia dau of Gabriel of Melitene and wife
of Baldwin II of Jerusalem and mother of Melisende who was the 2nd wife of
Fulk (-1143) count of Anjou. Another version states that the story arose
because HUGH VIII's wife Sarracena\Sarazine was a Saracen. I suppose half
human and half serpent could be allegorical for `of mixed blood'. The
soubriquet "le Brun" applied to many members of this family signifies a dark
complexion, another indication of eastern blood, although the term seems to
have pre-dated Sarracena [Ref: Adrian Channing SGM 9/3/1999-A]
Pedigree of Hugh I De Lusignan
Hugh I De Lusignan
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