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French count
Seal of Hugh XIII de Lusignan used in 1281. He is shown in hunting dress, with a small terrier-like hunting dog behind the croup of his saddle, with hunting horn hanging from his neck. This was the usual depiction in the seals of his ancestors and may indicate an early feudal tenure by
grand serjeanty of hunting, as the same device was used by the Turberville family of
Coity Castle in Glamorgan
Hugh XIII of Lusignan , Hugh VIII of La Marche or Hugh IV of Angoulême (25 June 1259 – 1 November 1303) succeeded his father
Hugh XII as Seigneur de Lusignan,
Count of La Marche and
Count of Angoulême in 1270.
He married at
Pau on 1 July 1276 Beatrice of Burgundy, Dame de
Grignon (
c. 1260 –
Cognac , June 1328/31 May 1329 and buried at
Angoulême ), daughter of
Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy and second wife
Beatrice of Champagne . They had no issue.