Hugues VIII “le Brun” de Lusignan

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: after 1164.

Place of Death: Palestine.

The date and place are given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Hugues VII “le Brun”, lord of Lusignan.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:76), van Eickels, and by Painter (p. 39).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Bourgogne, daughter of Geoffrey de Rancon.

This relationship is given by van Eickels, and by Painter (p. 39, p. 375).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Hugues VIIIa married (1) Orengarde; married (2) Douce.

Robert.

Geoffroy (died 1216) married (1) Humberge de Limoges; married (2) Eustachie Chabot.

Pierre.

Amaury (about 1145 - 1 April 1205), later Amaury I, king of Cyprus, and Amaury II, king of Jerusalem, married (1) Eschiva of Ibelin; married (2) Isabelle, queen of Jerusalem.

Guy (died 1194), later Guy I, king of Jerusalem, married Sibylle of Jerusalem.

Guillaume married Beatrice de Courtenay.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Cawley, Charles. “HUGUES [VIII] "le Brun" de Lusignan” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Eickels, Karl van. Lusignan I genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Painter, Sidney. “The Houses of Lusignan and Chatellerault 1150-1250” in Speculum Vol. 30, No. 3, 1955. (pp. 374-384.)

Painter, Sidney. “The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelth Centuries” in Speculum Vol. 30, No. 1, Jan., 1957. (pp. 27-47)