Aimery de Lusignan

Claims

1. Supported

   Aimery de Lusignan (c. 1145–1205), also called Amalric, son of Hugh VIII and brother of Guy, was King of Cyprus and King of Jerusalem simultaneously from 1197 to 1205. He is the first ruler under whom the two crowns were held in personal union; his reign established the dual titular style that his successors would inherit.

   3 evidence references

   • Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, vols. II–III (Cambridge, 1952–1954)

     Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East (Cambridge, 1952); vol. III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades (Cambridge, 1954). Documents Guy de Lusignan's kingship of Jerusalem (1186–1192), the disaster at Hattin (1187), the loss of Jerusalem, the reconquest by the Third Crusade, and Guy's subsequent acquisition of Cyprus in 1192; also Aimery's accession as king of both Jerusalem and Cyprus in 1197.

     Cambridge University Press

   • Peter W. Edbury, The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191–1374 (Cambridge, 1991)

     Peter W. Edbury, The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191–1374 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). The standard scholarly reference for the political and dynastic history of Lusignan Cyprus from Guy's acquisition of the island through the end of the Poitou-descended line.

     Cambridge University Press

   • Sir George Hill, A History of Cyprus, vol. II (Cambridge, 1948)

     Sir George Hill, A History of Cyprus, vol. II: The Frankish Period, 1192–1432 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948). Foundational four-volume institutional history of Cyprus; volume II covers the Lusignan dynasty from Guy through Janus.

     Cambridge University Press