Evidence Reference
Peter W. Edbury, The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191–1374 (Cambridge, 1991)
Associated with Guy de Lusignan
Citation
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.
Supporting claim
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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.