Hugh I of Cyprus (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hugh I of Cyprus (or Hugues I de Lusignan) (1194/1195 - January 10, 1218) succeeded to the throne of Cyprus on April 1, 1205 underage upon the death of his elderly father Amalric of Lusignan, King of Cyprus and Jerusalem. His mother was Eschiva of Ibelin, heiress of that branch of Ibelins who had held Bethsan and Ramleh. Hugh was married September, 1210 at Nicosia to his stepsister Alice of Champagne of Jerusalem (1193/1198 - 1246), daughter of his father's last wife Isabella I of Jerusalem and her previous husband Henry of Champagne, king of Jerusalem. The couple had three children Mary of Lusignan (before March, 1215 - 5 July 1251 or 1253), who married Count Walter IV of Brienne in 1233 (ca 1200 - murdered at Cairo, 1244).