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Guy was a member of the House of Lusignan. [2] The family's holdings were in Poitou, which was a part of King Henry II of England's territories within the Kingdom of France. [3] Guy was the youngest son of Hugh VIII of Lusignan and Bourgogne of Rancon. [4]
Sibylla (Old French: Sibyl; c. 1159 – 25 July 1190) was the queen of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1190. She reigned alongside her husband Guy of Lusignan, to whom she was unwaveringly attached despite his unpopularity among the barons of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Guy was the eldest son of King Hugh IV of Cyprus and his first wife Maria of Ibelin, who was the daughter of Guy, count of Jaffa. Guy lost his mother when he was a child in 1318, and his father, then constable of Cyprus, married his second wife Alice of Ibelin , a cousin of his first wife.
In 1183 Balian and Baldwin supported Raymond against Guy of Lusignan, husband of Amalric's elder daughter Sibylla and by now regent for Baldwin IV, who was dying of leprosy. The king had his 5-year-old nephew Baldwin of Montferrat crowned as co-king in his own lifetime, in an attempt to prevent Guy from ascending.
Raynald was a firm supporter of Baldwin IV's sister, Sybilla, and her husband, Guy of Lusignan, during conflicts regarding Baldwin IV's succession. Sibylla and Guy were able to seize the throne in 1186 due to Raynald's co-operation with her uncle, Joscelin III of Courtenay. In spite of a truce between Saladin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem ...
Kingdom of Heaven centers on the Battle of Hattin and capture of Jerusalem, with Marton Csokas playing Guy de Lusignan. The movie Saladin the Victorious by Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a female knight Hospitaller by the name of Louisa de Lusignan, played by Nadia Lotfi; La reine de Chypre, 1841 opera by Fromental Halévy.
Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It features an ensemble cast including Orlando Bloom , Eva Green , Jeremy Irons , David Thewlis , Brendan Gleeson , Marton Csokas , and Liam Neeson .
In the movie Kingdom of Heaven the defeated Christian king Guy of Lusignan is paraded before Jerusalem on a donkey by the Muslim army commanded by Saladin. In the TV series Barbarians Germanicus Maximus is led by the Germans in front of jeering Roman troops. Season 2- Episode 06