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Guy of Lusignan (c. 1150 – 18 July 1194) was a French Poitevin knight who reigned as the king of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1192 by right of marriage to Sibylla, and King of Cyprus from 1192 to 1194.
Guy was the king of Jerusalem who lost that Crusader kingdom in a struggle with rival Conrad of Montferrat. In 1180 he married Sibyl, sister of the leprous Baldwin IV, king of Jerusalem. When Baldwin died in 1185, Sibyl’s son by a previous marriage, the six-year-old Baldwin V, inherited the crown
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Guy of Lusignan. Aimery’s younger brother, Guy of Lusignan (c.1150-1194), arrived in Jerusalem at some unknown date before Easter 1180, although Ernoul said that he arrived on the advice of Aimery.
Guy of Lusignan (lüsēnyäN´), d. 1194, Latin king of Jerusalem (1186–92) and Cyprus (1192–94), second husband of Sibylla, sister of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.
A short biography of Guy de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, husband of Queen Sibylla, who usurped the throne of Jerusalem in 1186 and lost the Battle of Hattin to Saladin in 1187. Later, he besieged Acre, bought Cyprus from Richard the Lionheart and died there.
Guy of Lusignan (c. 1150 – 18 July 1194) was a French Poitevin knight who reigned as the king of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1192 by right of marriage to Sibylla, and King of Cyprus from 1192 to 1194.
Quick Reference. (1129–94) King of Jerusalem (1186–92) and Cyprus (1192–94); married Sibylla, heir presumptive to the throne of Jerusalem (1180); defeated by Saladin and captured at Hattin (1187), with Jerusalem lost. After ... From: Guy of Lusignan in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ».
