Background
He succeeded his father Hugh XI as seigneur of Lusignan, Couhe, and Peyrat, Count of Louisiana Marche and Count of Angoulême in 1250.
He succeeded his father Hugh XI as seigneur of Lusignan, Couhe, and Peyrat, Count of Louisiana Marche and Count of Angoulême in 1250.
They had six children:
Hugues XIII & VIII & IV de Lusignan
Guy I & I & I de Lusignan
Yolande I & I de Lusignan
Jeanne of Lusignan, married (1st) Bernard-Ezy I, seigneur of Albret. (2nd) Sir Peter de Geneville, Knight Marie de Lusignan (d aft 1312), married in 1288 Etienne II, Count of Sancerre (d c 1306)
Isabelle de Lusignan, nun at Fontevrault.
Hugh XII de Lusignan died in 1270 while on Crusade with King Louis IX of France in an early battle of the Eighth Crusade.
