French and English Aristocracy. Born Alfais de Lusignan, in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France, the eighth child of Hugh X de Lusignan, Comte de la Marche and his wife, Isabella d'Angoulême, whose previous marriage had been to King John of England, therefore Alice was a half sister to John's son Henry III of England. After her mother's death, she left France for England where in 1247 Henry III arranged a marriage between her and John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, creating ill will in his court; the King's French relatives were not popular and considered to be arrogant outsiders, nor was the perception that she disdained all thing English endearing. The couple had three children, and most records agree that she died shortly after the birth of her only son, however, another assertion states that the Register of Lewes Priory shows her death to have occurred in 1290. She was buried in Lewes Priory, before the high alter, under a marble monument reportedly topped with a sculpture of a wyvern with a branch in its mouth.
French and English Aristocracy. Born Alfais de Lusignan, in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France, the eighth child of Hugh X de Lusignan, Comte de la Marche and his wife, Isabella d'Angoulême, whose previous marriage had been to King John of England, therefore Alice was a half sister to John's son Henry III of England. After her mother's death, she left France for England where in 1247 Henry III arranged a marriage between her and John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, creating ill will in his court; the King's French relatives were not popular and considered to be arrogant outsiders, nor was the perception that she disdained all thing English endearing. The couple had three children, and most records agree that she died shortly after the birth of her only son, however, another assertion states that the Register of Lewes Priory shows her death to have occurred in 1290. She was buried in Lewes Priory, before the high alter, under a marble monument reportedly topped with a sculpture of a wyvern with a branch in its mouth.
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