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1. Guy of Lusignan, the masters of the Temple 395 and the Hospital, and Reginald of Châtillon, lord of Kerak, were taken prisoners by the enemy. (Web site)
2. Guy de Lusignan was crowned king of Jerusalem in 1186, and in the following year his city was taken by the victorious Saladin. (Web site)
3. Guy de Lusignan was taken prisoner the same day to be freed a year later, after swearing an oath never to attack the Muslims again.
4. Sybilla of Lusignan was the daughter of Amalric II of Jerusalem and Isabella of Jerusalem. (Web site)
5. Guy of Lusignan was also captured but his life was spared.

Support

1. He gave his support to his Poitevin vassal Guy of Lusignan, who had brought troops to help him in Cyprus.

Army

1. The King of Jerusalem [Guy de Lusignan]t also gathered his army from all of Judea and Samaria.

Lusignan Kings

1. Lusignan Kings of Cyprus were crowned in this cathedral.

Frankish Lusignan Dynasty

1. Leo IV formed an alliance with the Kingdom of Cyprus, then ruled by the Frankish Lusignan dynasty, but could not resist the attacks of the Mamluks.
2. More than 800 years of Byzantine rule ended as the Frankish Lusignan dynasty established a Western feudal system on Cyprus. (Web site)

Island

1. The Lusignan dynasty was of French origin, and already had a foothold in the area, the Island of Cyprus.

Colonel

1. There was a record for Louis Christian de Lusignan, colonel(retired).

Leon

1. Their descendants ruled Cilicia until the murder of Leon V in 1341, when his cousin Guy Lusignan was elected king.

French

1. The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia existed prior to the Crusades, but became semi-westernized by the (French) Lusignan dynasty.

Castle

1. By the end of the 11th century, they had risen to become the most prominent petty lords in the region from their castle at Lusignan.
2. During the Lusignan period, with additions, the monastery was turned into a castle, used both for military and residential purposes.

Throne

1. Balian is offered the throne, but at the cost of the murder of Guy de Lusignan.

Count

1. Louis was the second son and namesake of Louis, Count of Savoy by Anne of Lusignan, daughter of Janus of Cyprus. (Web site)
2. In the same year Beirut was taken over by Jocelin, count of Edessa, a supporter of Sibylla and Guy de Lusignan. (Web site)

Younger Brother

1. Guy was the younger brother of Amalric of Lusignan, who had already established himself as a capable figure in the kingdom, supported by the Courtenays.
2. She was married to Guy of Lusignan, younger brother of Baldwin of Ibelin's son-in-law Amalric. (Web site)

Family

1. He introduced the Lusignan family to court in 1174, in the person of Amalric of Lusignan, who had married his daughter Eschiva. (Web site)
2. After Conrad III's execution by Charles I of Sicily in 1268, the kingship was held by the Lusignan family, who were simultaneously kings of Cyprus.
3. The Lusignan family was noted for its many Crusaders. (Web site)

Year

1. The following year, barons offer the crown to John of Lusignan who offers the Cilician crown to his brother Guy.

Death

1. Hugh I of Cyprus (died 1218) succeeded to the throne of Cyprus in 1205 upon the death of his father Amalric of Lusignan.

Regent

1. In 1182 King Baldwin appointed Guy of Lusignan as his regent, as Baldwin was suffering from leprosy. (Web site)

Marriage

1. Gilbert had the disadvantage of already having a wife, Alice de Lusignan, but the couple had long been estranged, and in 1285, the marriage was annulled. (Web site)

Marrying

1. The king pre-empted them by marrying her off to Guy of Lusignan. (Web site)
2. He did this by marrying her to a Poitevin newcomer, Guy of Lusignan, whose older brother was already an established figure at court. (Web site)

Agnes

1. Agnes, not wishing her daughter married into the rival nobles' faction, arranged to have Sibylla marry her own client, Guy of Lusignan.

Geoffrey

1. Geoffrey de Lusignan passed up the position of ruler, so Guy was succeeded by his older brother Aimery (1194-1205).

Time

1. Various princes of the Holy Land arrived in Limassol at the same time, in particular Guy of Lusignan.

Order

1. Hugh II died childless, and Hugh of Antioch changed his name to Hugh III, (1267-1284), taking from his mother's side in order to revive the Lusignan dynasty. (Web site)

Knights Templar

1. The Knights Templar under Robert de Sablé were ordered to the fore, along with the Angevins and the Bretons, followed by Guy of Lusignan and the Poitevins.

Siege

1. In 1189 he joined Guy of Lusignan at the siege of Akko, but a year later he sought to displace Guy as king of Jerusalem. (Web site)

Acre

1. His mother, Hugh II's younger aunt Isabella of Lusignan became acting regent of Jerusalem in Acre.

Poitiers

1. The family originated from the castle of Lusignan, near Poitiers.
2. Shortly after his arrival to Poitiers, Louis learned that Hugh had assembled an army of men-at-arms at the nearby town of Lusignan.

Brother

1. After the death of King Baldwin in 1186, his brother in law, Guy of Lusignan, replaced him due to the support of the Templar Knights.

Château

1. The Lusignans' case and decisive defeats Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry show the Château de Lusignan.

Holy Land

1. An ancestor of the later Lusignan dynasty in the Holy Land, Hugh of Lusignan, was killed in the east during the Crusade of 1101.
2. An ancestor of the later Lusignan dynasty in the Holy Land, Hugh VI of Lusignan, was killed in the east during the Crusade of 1101. (Web site)
3. Amalric and Guy were sons of Hugh VIII of Lusignan, who had himself campaigned in the Holy Land in the 1160s. (Web site)

Son

1. Baldwin V., 1184–1186, a child of five, and son of Sybilla, was succeeded by Guy of Lusignan, Sybilla’s second husband. (Web site)
2. His only son by Alice, Hethum, had died before 1331; the barons elected his cousin Guy of Lusignan to succeed him.
3. Their son, James III, died in 1474, and with him the Lusignan dynasty ended; in 1489 Venice took complete control of Cyprus.

Fealty

1. However, Humphrey, who was then about twenty, chose to support Guy of Lusignan, husband of Isabella's half-sister Sibylla, to whom Humphrey swore fealty.

Laying Siege

1. Against Acre, Guy of Lusignan had been laying siege for two years. (Web site)

France

1. Here Guy of Lusignan, along with Duke Leopold and Phillip Augustus, King of France (1165-1223) were already laying siege to the Ayyubid held port city. (Web site)
2. The family originated at the Ch�teau de Lusignan, near Poitiers, a ch�teau-fort that is still the largest castle in France.

Relative Newcomer

1. Heraclius returned to Jerusalem in 1185 and supported the accession of Guy of Lusignan, a relative newcomer to the kingdom.
2. The heir was his mother Sibylla, but her husband, Guy of Lusignan, a relative newcomer to the kingdom, was widely disliked by the nobility.

Crusaders

1. The Siege of Kerak is waged between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders, in which regent Guy of Lusignan refuses to fight. (Web site)
2. The scions of the house of Lusignan proved themselves the most sincere of crusaders. (Web site)
3. The crusaders described him as "simplex et minus astutus", though he did set the foundation of Cypriot society in the Lusignan period. (Web site)

Latin Kingdom

1. Because Conrad was dead and his rival Guy of Lusignan had already been deposed, the throne of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was now vacant. (Web site)

Blois

1. Stephen of Blois was killed during this battle, as was Hugh VI of Lusignan, ancestor of the future Lusignan dynasty of Jerusalem and Cyprus.

Poitou

1. The Lusignan family originated in Poitou near Lusignan in western France in the early 10th century. (Web site)
2. The Lusignan family originated in Poitou in western France, and in the late 12th century came to rule the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus.

Chatillon

1. Both Guy de Lusignan and Renaud de Chatillon were real historical figures. (Web site)

King Guy

1. He is next heard of as being part of the muster of troops assembled by the now freed King Guy of Lusignan as he prepared for his siege of Acre. (Web site)
2. King Guy of Lusignan (1150-1194) led his army into a disastrous defeat, leaving the kingdom largely undefended in the face of the Ayyubid host. (Web site)

King Baldwin Iv

1. He invaded the northern part of the kingdom, and Guy of Lusignan, brother-in-law of King Baldwin IV, was sent out to meet him.

Marton Csokas

1. Royal succession will pass through his sister Sybilla (Eva Green), who is unhappily married, to her husband, Godfrey's rival Guy de Lusignan (Marton Csokas).
2. And so am I!) is unhappily married to a sexy noble brute, Guy de Lusignan (Marton Csokas), who anticipates becoming King when Baldwin dies.
3. His beautiful sister Sibylla (Eva Green) is married to the ruthless Guy de Lusignan (Marton Csokas), Jerusalem's military commander.

Marche

1. Hugh IX of Lusignan took Eleanor in hostage, John then recognised him as Count of Marche thus expanding Lusignan power in the region.
2. The lords of the castle at Lusignan were counts of La Marche, over which they frequently fought with the counts of Angoulême.
3. The Earls of March derived their titles from the French la Marche, and represented the combined heritage of the House of Brittany and of Lusignan.

Baldwin Iv

1. In 1182, Baldwin IV, now blind and bed-ridden, appointed Guy of Lusignan as his regent.
2. Her second marriage to Guy of Lusignan made him the king-consort on the death of Baldwin IV, with disastrous results.

Raymond Iii

1. Raymond III was the only leader that escaped, while King Guy of Lusignan was captured.

War

1. Lusignan allows Sibylla to visit Balian while he instructs nutty Reynald of Chatillon (Brendan Gleeson) to incite the Saracens to make war again.
2. Guy de Lusignan: Give me a war. (Web site)

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