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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. Sibylla was the eldest daughter of King Amalric and the only daughter of Agnes of ...
Unsuccessful in prying his sister and close heir away from Guy, the king, and the Haute Cour altered the succession, placing Baldwin V, Sibylla's son from her first marriage, in precedence over Sibylla, and decreeing a process to choose the monarch afterwards between Sibylla and Isabella (whom Baldwin and the Haute Cour thus recognized as at ...
The four witch queens show up again in King's later Le Morte D'Avalon, where it is revealed that they use their magic to rule their respective kingdoms through their king husbands as puppets. In the fourth season of the animated series Winx Club, produced by Rainbow S.p.A, Sebile, under the name Sibylla, appears as a secondary character ...
Baldwin of Montferrat was born in December 1177 or January 1178 to Sibylla, sister of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, after whom he was named. [1] His father, William of Montferrat, had died in June 1177. [1]
Before Raymond and Bohemond arrived, Agnes and King Baldwin arranged for Sibylla to be married to a Poitevin newcomer, Guy of Lusignan, whose older brother Amalric of Lusignan was already an established figure at court. [53] Internationally, the Lusignans were useful as vassals of Baldwin and Sibylla's cousin Henry II of England.
The scholar David S. Potter writes, "In the late fifth century BC it does appear that 'Sibylla' was the name given to a single inspired prophetess". [16] Like Heraclitus, Plato speaks of only one sibyl, but in course of time the number increased to nine, with a tenth, the Tiburtine Sibyl, probably Etruscan in origin, added by the Romans.
Sibylla Bailey Crane (1851-1902), American educator, composer, author Sybilla Corbet of Alcester ( c. 1077–1157), English noblewoman and mistress of King Henry I of England Sibylla Flügge , (1950), German lawyer and retired professor at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Sibylla was the daughter of Queen Isabella and King Hethoum I of Armenia. [1] In 1254, at the suggestion of the crusader King Louis IX of France, Sibylla was married to Bohemond VI, the prince of Antioch and count of Tripoli. [2] Their children were Bohemond VII, Lucia, and Maria. [1] The Principality of Antioch fell to the Egyptian Mamluks in ...