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Birth:          ABT 1182 of Shenton, Leicestershire, England
Death:          May 1246 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alix,_Countess_of_Eu
Alix d’Eu (died May 1246), daughter of Henry II, Count of Eu, and Matilda, daughter of 
Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, and Isabel de Warenne. Countess of Eu, Lady of 
Hastings. Alix was the last ruler of the county of Eu from the House of Normandy. Alix 
inherited Eu and Hastings upon her father’s death in 1191 as her older brothers had 
both died prematurely.

In 1219, Alix travelled to England apparently under some arrangement with Hubert de 
Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, Justicar of England. Their relationship remains a mystery.

In a charter dated February 1233, Alix granted terram de Forz…ex eschæta Guillelmi 
quondam domini de Forz et comitis Aubemarle to Louis IX, King of France.[1] It is 
unclear how Alix came to control Forz.

Alix married Raoul I of Lusignan in 1213, resulting in his becoming Count of Eu and 
Lord of Hastings, de jure uxoris, in 1214. Alix and Raoul had two children:
Matilda Lusignan (c. 1210 – August 14, 1241), who married Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd 
Earl of Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex and Constable of England. She was buried at 
Llanthony, Gloucester.
Raoul II de Lusignan, Count of Eu.

Alix was interred at La Mothe-Saint-Héray upon her death. The Counts of Eu 
continued through several generations of the House of Lusignan.

Sources[edit]

Pollock, M. A., Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296, 
The Boydell Press, Suffolk, 2015

Waters, Edmund C., The Counts of Eu, Sometime Lords of the Honour of Tickhill, The 
Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, No. 9, 1886

Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford University Press, 3rd Edition, 1971

Neveux, François, A Brief History of the Normans, Translated by Howard Curtis, 
Constable & Robinson, Ltd., London, 2008

Parents
D'EU Henry (ABT 1155 - 1191)
PLANTAGENET (WARENNE) Maud (Matilda) (1165 - )

Siblings
D'EU Alice (ABT 1182 - May 1246)

Marriage To DE LUSIGNAN Raoul (ABT 1190 - 1 May 1219)
    m. 1209 

Notes

Parents
DE LUSIGNAN Hugh IX (ABT 1163 - 5 Nov 1219)
TAILLEFER Mathilde (1173 - 1233)

Children by DE LUSIGNAN Raoul ABT 1190 - 1 May 1219
DE LUSIGNAN Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1210 - 12 Aug 1241)

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