Guy (Lusignan) de Lusignan (abt. 1150 - 1194)

Born about 1150 in Lusignan, Poitou, Aquitaine, France

Ancestors

Husband of Sybilla (Jerusalem) Montferrat — married Apr 1180 in Jerusalem

Died 18 Jul 1194 at about age 44 in Jerusalem

Biography

Guy (Lusignan) de Lusignan is Notable.

Guy was born in 1150. He was the son of Hugues VIII Lusignan and Borgoña Rançon. He passed away in 1194. Guy of Lusignan (c. 1150 – 18 July 1194) was a 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. Guy was a son of Lord Hugh VIII of Lusignan, in Poitou, at that time a part of the French duchy of Aquitaine, held by Queen Eleanor of England, her third son Richard, and her husband the English King Henry II.

Guy died in 1194 without surviving issue (his daughters by Sibylla, Alix de Lusignan and Marie de Lusignan both died young of plague at Acre in September or 21 October 1190) and was succeeded by his brother Amalric, who received the royal crown from Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor. Descendants of the Lusignans continued to rule the Kingdom of Cyprus until 1474. Guy was buried at the Church of the Templars in Nicosia.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_of_Lusignan