Comtes de Lusignan
The name is derived from a castle in Poitou, built, according to legend, by Mélusine. The family was powerful in the Middle Ages and ruled (13th-14th cent.) the county of Marche. One branch was prominent in the history of the Crusades. Guy of Lusignan succeeded (1186) Baldwin V as king of Jerusalem; compelled (1192) to resign this title, he received the island of Cyprus from King Richard I of England. His brother, Amalric II, succeeded (1194) him as king of Cyprus and was also king of Jerusalem; his descendants continued to claim the kingship of Jerusalem. In 1342 a branch of their line ascended the throne of Lesser Armenia (Cilicia); in 1375 the last Lusignan king of Armenia was overthrown by the Mamluks, and the Lusignans of Cyprus added the empty title of king of Armenia to the equally empty one of king of Jerusalem. Cyprus flourished under Lusignan rule until about 1370, but then it declined and eventually became dependent on Venice and was obliged to pay tribute to Egypt. The royal capital, Nicosia, was long a center of French medieval culture. Famagusta, however, was ceded in the mid-1370s to Genoa as security for an indemnity in return for the release of the captive King Peter II. In the next century the Lusignan rulers of Cyprus had little power. The situation changed in 1460, however, when Queen Charlotte was expelled by the half-Greek illegitimate son of her late husband. The usurper became king as James II, recovered (1464) Famagusta, and married the Venetian heiress Caterina Cornaro. Their son, James III, died in 1474, and with him the Lusignan dynasty ended; in 1489 Venice took complete control of Cyprus. ... more
- A1 ~ Hugues I de Lusignan;
- B1 ~ Hugues II de Lusignan, d:967;
- C1 ~ Hugues III de Lusignan, m. Arsendis;
- D1 ~ Hugues IV de Lusignan, m. Auliarde de Thouars;
- E1 ~ Hugues V 'le Debonnaire' de Lusignan, d:1060, m. Almodis de la Marche;
- F1 ~ Hugues VI 'le Diable' de Lusignan, d:1106, m. Hildegarde de Thouars;
- G1 ~ Hugues VII 'le Brun' de Lusignan, lvd:1065/1151, m. Sarrazine de Lezay;
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- G1 ~ Hugues VII 'le Brun' de Lusignan, lvd:1065/1151, m. Sarrazine de Lezay;
- F1 ~ Hugues VI 'le Diable' de Lusignan, d:1106, m. Hildegarde de Thouars;
- E1 ~ Hugues V 'le Debonnaire' de Lusignan, d:1060, m. Almodis de la Marche;
- D1 ~ Hugues IV de Lusignan, m. Auliarde de Thouars;
- C1 ~ Hugues III de Lusignan, m. Arsendis;
- H1 ~ Hugues VIII 'le Vieux' de Lusignan, lvd:1110/1165, m. Burgondie de Rancon;
- I1 .. Guy de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, Cyprus, d:1194, m. Sybille d'Anjou;
- I2 ~ Amaury de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, LVd:1145/1205, m. Echive d'Ibelin;
- J1 ~ Hugues I, King of Cyprus, d:1218, m. Alix de Champagne;
==> Counts of Champagne
- K1 ~ Maria de Lusignan, b:1215, m. Gautier IV de Brienne; <== Comte de Brienne
- J1 ~ Hugues I, King of Cyprus, d:1218, m. Alix de Champagne;
==> Counts of Champagne
- I3 ~ Hugues de Lusignan, d:1169, m. Orengarde;
- J1 ~ Raul de Lusignan, Count of Eu, d:1219, m. Alix d'Eu;
- K1 ~ Maud de Lusignan, m. Humphry de Bohun; <== de Bohun family
- J2 ~ Hugues IX 'le Brun' de Lusignan, lvd:1163/1219, m. Mathilde Taillefer;
==> Taillefer family
- K1 ~ Hugues X, Comte de la Marche, d:1249, m. Isabella d'Angoulême;
- L1 ~ Alix de Lusignan, lvd:1247, m. John Plantagenet; <== Plantagenet Dynasty
- L2 ~ William de Valence;
- M1 ~ Johannade Valence, m. Sir John 'the Red' Comyn; <== Clan Comyn
- L3 ~ Hugues XI, Comte de la Marche et d'Angouleme, m. Yolande de Dreux;
==> Dukes of Brittany
- M1 ~ Hugues XII, Comte de la Marche et d'Angouleme, m. Jeanne de Fougeres;
- N1 ~ Jeanne de Lusignan, m. Peter de Geneville;
- O1 ~ Jeanne de Geneville, lvd:1285/1346, m. Roger Mortimer; <== Mortimer family
- N1 ~ Jeanne de Lusignan, m. Peter de Geneville;
- M1 ~ Hugues XII, Comte de la Marche et d'Angouleme, m. Jeanne de Fougeres;
- K1 ~ Hugues X, Comte de la Marche, d:1249, m. Isabella d'Angoulême;
- J1 ~ Raul de Lusignan, Count of Eu, d:1219, m. Alix d'Eu;
- B1 ~ Hugues II de Lusignan, d:967;
