Jeanne of Lusignan

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Jeanne of Lusignan or Jeanne I de Lusignan or Joan of Lusignan (1260- 13 April 1323) succeeded her elder sister Yolanda of Lusignan (24 March 1257^[1]- 30 September 1314 as Dame de Lusignan, de Couhe et de Peyrat in 1314 but not as Countess of La Marche since after her sister's death, it was annexed by Philip IV of France and given as an appanage to Philip’s son Charles the Fair. Previously, in 1308, following the death of her brother Guy I of Lusignan, Jeanne and her sister Isabelle, as co-heiresses, had sold the county of Angouleme to the King.^[2]

[edit] Family

Her parents were Hugh XII of Lusignan, Seigneur de Lusignan, Couhe, et de Peyrat,Count of La Marche and of Angouleme and Jeanne, Dame de Fougères. Her paternal grandparents were Hugh XI of Lusignan, Seigneur de Lusignan, Couhe, et de Peyrat, Count of La Marche and of Angouleme, and Yolande de Dreux, Countess of Penthièvre and of Porhoet. Her maternal grandparents were Raoul III, Sire de Fougères and Isabelle de Craon. She had three sisters, Yolande, Isabelle, and Marie, and two brothers, Hugh XIII of Lusignan and Guy I of Lusignan.^[3]

[edit] Marriages

Jeanne married firstly Bernard IV, Sire d'Albret, by whom she had two daughters: Mathe, Dame d'Albret (died 1283) and Isabelle, Dame d'Albret (died 1 December 1294) who married Bernard VI, Count of Armagnac.^[4] After the death of her first husband on 24 December 1280, Jeanne married secondly sometime before 1285 Sir Piers de Geneville, of Trim and Ludlow Castle (d. bef. June, 1292) and had another daughter: