Jacques II of Cyprus

Jacques II of Lusignan , known as bastard the or the archbishop , born towards 1439, dead the July 10th 1473, king de Chypre (1460 - 1473), wire of Jean II of Cyprus and Mariette de Patras.

Wire illegitimate of Jean II, it had to undergo the hatred of his mother-in-law Helene Paléologue. To protect it, his/her father made it enter the orders and establish archbishop of Nicosie, but the Jacques young person did not have the religious vocation and proved soon to be a precursor of the prelates of the Renaissance. Without scruple, it in particular made assassinate partisans of the queen, her chamberlain Thomas de Morée and Jacques Urri, Viscount of Nicosie.

His/her mother-in-law died in 1458, her father a few months after and his/her half-sister Charlotte went up on the throne. It escaped in 1459 and took refuge at the court of Al-Achraf Saïf AD-DIN Inal, sultan Mamelouk of Egypt, intrigued at the court of the sultan and finally unloaded in September 1460 with the head of a detachment Mameluke, which took the control of the island quickly. The queen and the barons loyal supporters withdrew themselves in the fortress of Cérines (Kyrenia), which was taken only in September 1463.

Benefitting from the presence of the soldiers Mamelukes, it removed in Génois the January 6th 1464 the town of Famagouste. This action, that its précédesseurs had not succeeded, to him been worth a renewal of popularity of the population which reproached him its illegitimacy and its alliance with the Mamelukes. Under a more or less real charge of plot, it succeeds in getting rid of the Mamelukes by making them massacre, without scrambling itself with the court of Cairo.

To avoid a renewed attack of Genoa, it was combined with the République of Venice, marrying in 1472 Catherine Cornaro noble Venetian which was solemnly adopted by the Republic. He died a little later the January 6th 1473, leaving pregnant Catherine of Jacques III '' posthumous the ''.

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