Evidence Reference
Sir George Hill, A History of Cyprus, vol. II (Cambridge, 1948)
Associated with Guy de Lusignan
Citation
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.
Supporting claim
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.