Raoul de Lusignan dit d’Exoudun, count of Eu

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1 May 1219.

Place of Death: Melle.

The date and place are given by Cawley.

Place of Burial: Issoudun.

The place is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Hugues VIIIa de Lusignan.

This relationship is given by Painter (p.379) and by Cawley. Van Eickels makes Hugues VIII the father.

Mother: uncertain.

Spouse: Alice, countess of Eu.

This relationship is given by Johns (ODNB) 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

Cawley, Charles. “RAOUL de Lusignan” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

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.

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

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

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