Yolande de Bretagne

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 63:30, 117:28, 135:30, 155:28, 275:28, Yolande de Dreux married Hugh XI de Lusignan, son of Hugh X de Lusignan and Isabella of Angoulême. They were parents of Alix de Lusignan, wife of Sir Gilbert de Clare; and Hugh XII de Lusignan who married Jeanne de Fougères. ¹⁹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Yolande de Bretagne.
Hugues de Lusignan married Yolande de Bretagne, daughter of Pierre I "Mauclerc" duc de Bretagne & first wife Alix de Thouars duchesse de Bretagne. The Chronicon Britannicum records in 1236 that "Penthevria excepto Jugonio" was granted to "Hugoni filio comitis de Marchia" with "filia Petri comitis totius Britanniæ" [Morice, H. (1742) Mémoires pour servir de preuves à l'histoire ecclesiastique et civile de Bretagne, Tome I (Paris), Chronicon Britanicum, col. 111].

• Web Reference: Yolande de Dreux.

Chateau de Bouteville, Charente, where Yolande died in 1272

Yolande married Hugues de Lusignan Comte de la Marche et d'Angouleme, son of Hugues "le Brun" de Lusignan comté de la Marche et Angoulême and Isabel d’Angoulême Queen of England, in 1238.¹⁶⁰ (Hugues de Lusignan Comte de la Marche et d'Angouleme was born circa 1221 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou ¹⁶⁰ and died on 6 Apr 1250 in Battle of Mansurah, Damiette, Egypt ¹⁰⁰².)