Evidence Reference
Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, vols. II–III (Cambridge, 1952–1954)
Associated with Guy de Lusignan
Citation
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.
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.