Guy de Lusignan

Claims

1. Supported

   Guy de Lusignan (c. 1150–1194), son of Hugh VIII, was King of Jerusalem 1186–1192 by right of his wife Sibylla, sister of King Baldwin IV. His army was destroyed at the Battle of Hattin on 4 July 1187, leading directly to the loss of Jerusalem to Saladin. After the Third Crusade, he acquired Cyprus in 1192 from Richard I of England (who had taken it from the Byzantine usurper Isaac Komnenos), founding the Lusignan royal dynasty of Cyprus. He is admitted here at his documented historical birth identity; this admission takes no position on any modern claim to the "Guy de Lusignan" identity.

   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