Alice, countess of Eu

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: probably between 13 and 15 May, 1246.

Place of Death: La Mothe St Héray in Poitou.

The date and place are given by Johns (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (5:165).

Place of Burial: possibly Fontblanche Priory at Exoudun.

The place is given by Johns (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (5:165).

Relationships

Father: Henri (died 1183), count of Eu and lord of Hastings.

This relationship is given by Johns (ODNB), by Power, and by the Complete Peerage (5:160).

Mother: Matilda (died in or after 1212), the daughter of Hamelin, earl of Surrey.

This relationship is given by Johns (ODNB), by Power, and by the Complete Peerage (5:160).

Spouse: Raoul de Lusignan (died 1219).

This relationship is given by Johns (ODNB), by Power, and by the Complete Peerage (5:160).

Children:

Raoul d’Exoudun (died 1 or 2 September 1246), count of Eu, married (1) Jehanne, daughter of Eude III, duke of Burgundy, in 1211; married (2) Yolent, daughter of Robert II, count of Dreux and Braine; married (3) Philippe, daughter of Simon de Dammartin, count of Ponthieu and Montreuil.

Matilda de Lusignan (died 14 August 1241) married Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and earl of Essex.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volume 5.

Johns, Susan M. “Alice, suo jure countess of Eu (d. 1246)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Power, Daniel. The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).