Hugues I, vicomte de Thouars

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Google Translation from the French: He pays homage to the King of France Louis VIII for his estates located in Anjou and Poitou and takes part in the expedition led by the king in the south of France against the Cathars

. He was present at the siege of Avignon and witnessed the death of Louis VIII on November 8, 1226.

With the advent of the new king of France Louis IX (Saint Louis) most of the poitevin and Breton barons, attached to their independence, joined in the uprising led by Isabelle d'Angoulême widow of Jean sans Terre and remarried to the count de la Marche, Hugues X de Lusignan . Soon Hugues Thouars driven by Savary I st Mauleon and Hugh X of Lusignan, joins the uprising. Thouars was then chosen as a meeting place by the partisans of Henry III of England . Richard , brother of the latter, is joined there by many lords of Aquitaine. But their main allyThibaud de Champagne finally failed them, he went to Tours to the King of France and not to Thouars as initially planned. All the allies are then obliged to rally to the regent Blanche de Castille . Hugues died around 1229/1230 after making donations to the Abbey of Grandmont in Thouarsais, founded in 1076 by Étienne de Muret .

He married before 1203 Marguerite de Vihiers, lady of Montaigu (1190-1241), (daughter of Maurice II de Commequiers). They did not have children. Marguerite's mother was called Héloïse (Elvis) de la Garnache, sister of Pierre V de la Garnache, and inherited the lords of La Garnache.

According to the archives of the Fontevriste priory, a priory belonging to the Order of Fontevraud , from La-Lande-en-Beauchêne to Sallertaine in Vendée 2 , Hugues de Thouars is buried in the church of this priory. It is very probable that Hugues and Marguerite had a dead child in infancy, also buried in the same church and whose tombstone still exists.