Hugh V called the Fair or the Pious, was the fifth Lord of Lusignan and Lord of Couhé

Couhé

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. He succeeded his father, Hugh IV

Hugh IV of Lusignan

Hugh IV , called Brunus , was the fourth Lord of Lusignan. He was the son of Hugh III Albus and Arsendis...

, sometime around 1026.

He and his brother Rorgo confirmed charters for the abbeys of Saint-Maixent

Saint-Maixent

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 and Saint-Cyprien

Saint-Cyprien

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 and that of Nouaillé. He married Almodis

Almodis de la Marche

Almodis de la Marche was the daughter of Bernard I, Count of Marche and wife Amélie. She married Hugh V of Lusignan around 1038 and they had two sons and one daughter:* Hugh VI of Lusignan * Jordan de Lusignan...

 (990 or c. 1020 – murdered October 16, 1071), daughter of Bernard I, Count of La Marche, through which future counts would claim La Marche. Almodis bore Hugh two sons and one daughter: Hugh VI of Lusignan

Hugh VI of Lusignan

Hugh VI , called the Devil, was the Lord of Lusignan and Count of La Marche , the son and successor of Hugh V of Lusignan and Almodis de la Marche. He participated in the Crusade of 1101....

 and Jordan de Lusignan, and Mélisende de Lusignan (b. bef. 1055), married before 1074 to Simon I "l'Archevêque", Vidame de Parthenay. He then repudiated her on the basis of consanguinity

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 and she married Pons of Toulouse

Pons of Toulouse

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. When Duke William VIII of Aquitaine

William VIII of Aquitaine

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, Hugh's suzerain, was at war with William IV of Toulouse

William IV of Toulouse

William IV of Toulouse was Count of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence, and Duke of Narbonne from 1061 to 1094. He succeeded his father Pons of Toulouse upon his death in 1061. His mother was Almodis de la Marche, but she was kidnapped by and subsequently married to Ramon Berenguer I, Count of...

, Almodis persuaded Hugh to join her son's side. The duke besieged Lusignan and when Hugh tried to sortie for provisions, he was slain at the gate. He was succeeded by his eldest son, also named Hugh.

Sources

• Painter, Sidney
  Sidney Painter
  Sidney Painter was a twentieth-century American medievalist at Johns Hopkins University.Painter was born in New York City; after the Taft School he attended Yale University . He wrote many influential books...
  
  . "The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries." Speculum, Vol. 32, No. 1. (Jan., 1957), pp 27–47.