Guy de Lusignan
Guy of Lusignan (1159 † 1194), king de Jérusalem (1186 - 1192), then king with Cyprus (1192 - 1194), wire of Hugues VIII the Old man, lord of Lusignan and count of Walk, and of Burgundy de Rançon.
It is a character deprived of any political direction. The Ambroise poet called it his simpleness Guy de Lusignan .
He marries in 1180 Sibylle, sister of the king Baudouin IV of Jerusalem, which did it count of Jaffa, but withdrew soon this title to him by noting its mediocrity.
With died of her son-in-law Baudouin V, said Baudouinet , Sybille was crowned queen of Jerusalem and associated it with the throne, in spite of the opposition of a certain number of barons. It quickly had to deal with Saladin which had decided to finish some with the armed robberies of Renaud de Châtillon. The ost went to the meeting of the army of Saladin and confrontation took place with the Bataille of Hattin (1187). Its overcome and destroyed army, Guy was made prisoner.
After having conquered most of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, having failed only vis-a-vis Tyr defended by Conrad de Montferrat, Saladin released Guy so that his mediocrity neutralizes the resistance and the organization of Conrad, but this last refused to open the doors of the city in front of Guy de Lusignan. Guy, who until had there made watch of greatest nullity, reacts with courage because, with a negligible handle of knights remained faithful (of which the Large Master of Templiers Gerard de Rideford, him so responsible for the defeat of Hattin and also captured), undertook to besiege Acre, which was taken only at the end of two years with the assistance of the Third crusade carried out by Philippe Auguste and Richard Lion-hearted. But the barons preferred as king Conrad de Montferrat and Richard Lion-hearted, good prince, gave Cyprus, which it had conquered on the Byzantines who had badly accommodated it, with Guy de Lusignan. He died there two years later. Its dynasty reigned however on Cyprus until 1489 and made of it a Christian bastion in the middle of the Eastern Mediterranean from which all the coasts fell gradually to the hands from the Turks.
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