Raoul I of Lusignan

He also became Count of Eu (c. 1191), by marriage (de jure uxoris) to Alix d'Eu.

Since the region of Poitou was contested between kings of France and England, local nobility was often changing sides.

He later rejoined the English side, and took part in the Battle of Bouvines (1214).

For his services to the king England, he was granted possession of Hastings and Tickhill, in 1216.

[1][2][3][4] By 1191, Raoul married a young noblewoman Alix d'Eu, heiress of the County of Eu (born c. 1180 – La Mothe-Saint-Heray, Poitou, May 1246).