Evidence Reference
Sir George Hill, A History of Cyprus, vol. III (Cambridge, 1948)
Associated with Catherine Cornaro
Citation
Sir George Hill, A History of Cyprus, vol. III: The Frankish Period, 1432–1571 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948). Covers the later Lusignan kings, Anne de Lusignan's Savoy marriage, the reign of Catherine Cornaro, and the 1489 cession of Cyprus to the Republic of Venice.
Supporting claim
supported
Catherine Cornaro (1454–1510), Venetian noblewoman of the Cornaro family, married James II of Cyprus in 1472 (the marriage was performed by proxy in Venice in 1468). After James II's death in 1473 and the death of their infant son James III in 1474, she ruled as Queen of Cyprus in her own right from 1474 until her forced abdication and cession of the island to the Republic of Venice on 26 February 1489. She was the last crowned monarch of the historical Kingdom of Cyprus. Her parentage and marriage into the Cyprus royal line are narrated in prose here; James II, James III, and the connecting Cyprus royal generations are not admitted in this batch.