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In 1328, he was betrothed to Maria de Bourbon, the daughter of Louis I, Duke of Bourbon. In 1329, Maria's dowry of 13,000 florins was received in Florence, and she arrived at Cyprus in January of the next year. The marriage was celebrated in Saint Sophia Cathedral in Nicosia. [1] In 1338 Guy was appointed as constable of Cyprus.
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, March: the Château de Lusignan. The Château de Lusignan (in Lusignan, Vienne département, France), of which hardly any traces remain, was the ancestral seat of the House of Lusignan, Poitevin Marcher Lords, who distinguished themselves in the First Crusade and became the royal family of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Cyprus and the Armenian ...
The House of Lusignan (/ ˈ l uː z ɪ n. j ɒ n / LOO-zin-yon; French:) was a royal house of French origin, which at various times ruled several principalities in Europe and the Levant, including the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Armenia, from the 12th through the 15th centuries during the Middle Ages.
Opening of the Conventum in the earliest manuscript. The rubricated initial A begins the account.. The Conventum is a Latin text from around 1030 that narrates the relations between Duke William V of Aquitaine and Lord Hugh IV of Lusignan in the preceding twenty years.
Alice of Lusignan (died May 1290), [10] married in 1253 as his first wife, Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, by whom she had two daughters. Marie of Lusignan (1242- after 11 July 1266), married Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby. [11] She died childless. Isabelle of Lusignan, Dame de Belleville (1248–1304), married Maurice de Belleville
A Duke University professor has died after he had a midair medical crisis while piloting an airplane in North Carolina on Sunday. A passenger was able to take control of the single-engine plane ...
La Marche first appeared as a separate fief about the middle of the 10th century, when William III, Duke of Aquitaine, gave it to one of his vassals, Boson, who took the title of Count. In the 12th century, the countship passed to the House of Lusignan. They also were sometimes counts of Angoulême and counts of Limousin. [2]
Hugh de Lusignan, Co-Seigneur de Lusignan in 1164 (c. 1141–1169), [2] married before 1162 Orengarde N, who died in 1169, leaving two sons who were infants at the time of his death Hugh IX of Lusignan [2] Raoul I de Lusignan, Count of Eu [2] Robert de Lusignan, died young c. 1150