Hughes "le Pieux" de Lusignan

   Another name for Hughes was Hugh V "the Pious" de Lusignan.¹⁶⁰

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 275:21, Hugh de Lusignan, "the Pious," Sire de Lusignan, died in battled 8 Oct 1060, son of Hugh IV, who died 1025-1032 and Auliarde de Thouars, daughter of Raoul I, Viscomté de Thouars, married Almodis de la Marche, daughter of Bernard I, comté de la Marche and Pérogord. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Hughes "le Pieus".
"Hugo Liziniacensis" donated property to St Cyprien by charter dated (1025) "sub testimonio Hildeardis uxoris sue et infantum suorum Hugonis et Rorgonis, Walterii prepositi et Belielini filii eius" [Poitiers Saint-Cyprien 440, p. 276]. "…Ugonis et Rorgonis fratrum…" subscribed the charter dated to (1031) under which "Gauterius et uxor sua Anna" donated "alodium suum…Montem Gaudonum…uno milario distans de Liziniaco" to Poitiers Saint-Cyprien [Poitiers Saint-Cyprien 440, p. 273]. Seigneur de Lusignan et de Couhé. "...Ugonis de Liziniaco..." subscribed the charter dated 1047 under which "Goffredus comes et uxor mea Agnes" founded Notre-Dame de Saintes and donated numerous properties [Saintes Notre-Dame, I, p. 1]. The Chronicle of Saint-Maixent records that "Goffredus dux Pictavorum" made war against "Hugone Lizianici" who was killed in the siege of his castle "1060 VIII Id Oct" [Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou, pp. 401-2]. He married and separated from his first wife, Almodis de la Marche after they had at least three children.

Hughes married Almodis comtesse de la Marche, daughter of Bernard I comté de la Marche and Amelia ¹⁶⁰.^,193 (Almodis comtesse de la Marche was born about 990 in la Marche, Normandy, France and died on 17 Nov 1075 in Poitou, Aquitaine.)