Lusignan, a picturesque town in the French department of Vienne, 17 miles SW. of Poitiers. It has a very fine church dating from the 11th century, but its castle, associated by legend with the fairy Melusine (q.v.), was razed by the Catholics in 1574. The House of Lusignan gave two titular kings to Jerusalem, and four kings to Cyprus. Pop. 1255.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 745
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