Guy DE LUSIGNAN King of Jérusalem ²³⁸¹

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  General Notes:

LifeSketch
Guy de Lusignan, King of Jersusalem and Cyprus was the son of Hugues VIII de Lusignan, Sire de Lusignan. He married Sybil d'Anjou, Queen of Jerusalem, daughter of Almaric I, King of Jerusalem and Agnes of Courtenay, in 1180. He died circa April 1194.
He succeeded as the King Guy of Jerusalem in 1186.1 He was deposed as King of Jersualem in 1192.1 He was created King Guy of Cyprus in 1192, after he purchased Cyprus from the Templars.2
Citations
[S38] John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 172. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World.
[S38] John Morby, Dynasties of the World, page 173.


From Wikipedia (Introduction; see link to full article in Sources):
Guy of Lusignan (c. 1150 \endash 18 July 1194) was a French Poitevin knight, son of Hugh VIII of the Lusignan dynasty. He was king of the crusader state of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1192 by right of marriage to Sibylla of Jerusalem, and of Cyprus from 1192 to 1194. Having arrived in the Holy Land (where his brother Amalric was already prominent) at an unknown date, Guy was hastily married to Sibylla in 1180 to prevent a political incident within the kingdom. As the health of his brother-in-law, Baldwin IV, deteriorated, Guy was appointed regent for his stepson by Sibylla, Baldwin V. Baldwin IV died in 1185, followed shortly by Baldwin V in 1186, leading to the succession of Sibylla and Guy to the throne. Guy's reign was marked by increased hostilities with the Ayyubids ruled by Saladin, culminating in the Battle of Hattin in July 1187\emdash during which Guy was captured\emdash and the fall of Jerusalem itself three months later.

Following a year of imprisonment in Damascus, Guy was released by Saladin. After being denied entry to Tyre, one of the last crusader strongholds, by Conrad of Montferrat, Guy besieged Acre in 1189. The siege, during which Guy's wife died, developed into a rallying point for the Third Crusade, led by Philip II of France and Richard I of England. Guy entered a bitter row with Conrad over the kingship of Jerusalem; despite Richard's support for the widower king, Conrad married Sibylla's half-sister Isabella and was elected king by the nobility of the kingdom. Conrad was assassinated by the Hashshashin days after the election; Richard's and Guy's involvement in the incident is suspected, but unproven. Nevertheless, Guy was compensated for the dispossession of his crown by being given lordship of Cyprus in 1192, which Richard had taken from the Byzantine Empire en route to the Levant. Guy ruled the Kingdom of Cyprus until his death in 1194, when he was succeeded by his brother Amalric [Aimery].

[Source: Wikipedia, "Guy of Lusignan". downloaded 10 September 2018, dvmansur; see link in Sources.]

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Banished: from England, before 1180,. ²³⁸⁵

2. Title of Nobility: Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, in April 1180, in , , , Israel.

3. Deposed: by Saladin, in 1187, in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, , Judea. ²³⁸⁵

4. Title of Nobility: Lord of Cyprus, between 1192 and 1194, in Nicosia, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus.

Guy married Sibylle D'ANJOU Queen of Jérusalem in April 1180 in Jerusalem, Jerusalem Kaza, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire.²³⁸⁵ (Sibylle D'ANJOU Queen of Jérusalem was born in 1159 in Jerusalem, Jerusalem Kaza, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire ²³⁸⁵ and died on 25 July 1190 in Acre, Akka Sanjak, Beirut Vilayet, Impero ottomano ²³⁸⁵.)