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  Cyprus History: Lusignan Period - Alix (Alice) of Jerusalem-Champagne, Queen of Cyprus & Regent of Jerusalem
Alice married (1208) Hugues, son of Amaury of Cyprus/Amaury II of Jerusalem (also her step-brother as his father was her mother's third husband), the arrangements being made by her grandmother Maria Comnena and dowry provided by Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne.
Alice was also the aunt of Yolanda (1225), the daughter of her half-sister Maria of Montferrat, and titular Queen of Jerusalem.
It was in Tripoli that Alice met and married Bohemond V, the eldest surviving son of Bohemond IV of Antioch.
www.cypnet.co.uk /ncyprus/history/lusignan/1hugues1a.htm   (515 words)

  
 Kings of Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kingdom of Jerusalem had its origins in the First Crusade, when Godfrey of Bouillon took the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri, "Protector of the Holy Sepulcher", in 1099 and was crowned in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Melisende was the youngest daughter of Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem and her fourth husband King-Consort Amalric II of Jerusalem.
1412), Dowager Queen of Hungary, Sicily and Jerusalem
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 Alice of Champagne - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Queen Alice of Cyprus, born Alice of Jerusalem or Alice de Champagne (1196–1246) was the daughter of Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem and Count Henry II of Champagne (Henry I of Jerusalem).
Alice's grandmother Maria Comnena, dowager queen of Jerusalem, conducted the marriage negotiations on behalf of 12-year-old with Cyprus in 1208, and arranged her wedding to Hugh I of Cyprus.
In 1223 Alice married Bohemond V of Antioch, which was dissolved by annulment, and later she married Raoul of Soissons.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Alice_of_Cyprus   (317 words)

  
 Kingdom of Jerusalem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Queen Alice of Cyprus (Regent, 1243 - 1246)
After the end of the kingdom, Henry II continued to use the title "King of Jerusalem." After his death the title was claimed by both his direct heirs, the Kings of Cyprus, and the senior branch of the dynasty, the Kings of Naples.
Currently, the title of King of Jerusalem is claimed by King Juan Carlos I of Spain as the successor to the royal family of Naples.
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 Kings of Jerusalem - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Kingdom of Jerusalem had its origins in the First Crusade, when Godfrey of Bouillon took the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri in 1099 and was crowned in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Currently, the title of King of Jerusalem is claimed by King Juan Carlos I of Spain as the successor to the royal family of Aragon, as heir of Ferdinand II of Aragon.
Margaret of Durazzo, Dowager Queen of Hungary, Sicily and Jerusalem, died 1412
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 Cyprus Heads
Alice was daughter and Heriess Presumptive of King Henri I of Jerusalem and Princess Isabella d'Anjou of Jerusalem.
1458-64 Queen Regnant Charlotte of Cyprus and Titular Queen of Jerusalem and Armenia
1474-89 Queen Regnant of Cyprus and Titular Queen of Jerusalem and Armenia
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 Isabella of Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem and his second wife Maria Comnena, a grandniece of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus, who had received the town and territory of Nablus as a dower from her husband the king.
Sibylla was crowned as queen regnant in 1186, and, ignoring demands that she have her marriage annulled, she crowned Guy herself.
On her death in 1205, Isabella was succeeded as Queen of Jerusalem by her eldest daughter Maria of Montferrat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isabella,_Queen_of_Jerusalem   (1919 words)

  
 Hugh II of Cyprus - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Hugh II (1253-1267) was king of Cyprus and, from the age of 5 years, also Regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Hugh II died in November of 1267 at the age of 14 and was buried in the Dominican church in Nicosia.
He was succeeded by Hugh of Lusignan-Antioch (son of his younger aunt Isabella) as Hugh III of Cyprus, though his heir-general was his another first cousin, Hugh of Brienne (c 1240-1296), son of Mary of Cyprus, the eldest aunt of the deceased Hugh II.
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 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Daimbert claimed that he was the true ruler of Jerusalem, in the name of the papacy, but the nobles chose to treat Jerusalem as a hereditary fief and so it naturally fell to the next of kin.
It was in this context that the survivors of the Crusade of 1101 arrived at Jerusalem early in 1102.
Jerusalem now had a King and an heir, but its Queen was dead and John of Brienne was an outcast, and the Kingdom was in effect ruled by foreigners.
the-orb.net /textbooks/crusade/jerusalem.html   (16162 words)

  
 Peter I of Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Peter I of Cyprus (9 October, 1328 – 17 January, 1369) was King of Cyprus and titular King of Jerusalem from his father's abdication in 1358 until his own death in 1369.
He was the second son of Hugh IV of Cyprus, the first by his second wife Alice of Ibelin.
Queen Eleanor had been unfaithful during his long absences in Europe, and he retaliated by tyrannizing her favorite nobles, alienating even his brothers.
en.wikilib.org /wiki/Peter_I_of_Cyprus   (501 words)

  
 Make Love, Make War: the Fate of Cyprus
Presumably she was the fertility goddess who appears in one form of another in all the old Mediterranean cultures, the one whom the Romans later called the Great Mother of the Gods, the one who caused the earth to bring forth crops and mothers to bring forth babies.
Cyprus, her birthplace, would be remembered through the centuries, whatever sufferings might befall its inhabitants, as the Island of Love -- its name, said Edward Gibbon, "excites the ideas of elegance and pleasure." The Elizabethan playwright Thomas Dekker has one of his heroines say, ".'tis the fashion of us Cypriotes to yield at first assault."
It was a network of hundreds of little villages, huddled around their domed Byzantine churches or the minarets of their mosques, communities of peasants bound economically and emotionally to the little plots of land which had belonged to their forebears since time immemorial, the place where thy were born and where they would die.
www.robertwernick.com /articles/cyprus.shtml   (4798 words)

  
 Cyprus in the Middle Ages
For the next 300 years, Cyprus was ruled jointly by both the Arabs and the Byzantines as a condominium, despite the nearly constant warfare between the two parties on the mainland.
In 1185, the last Byzantine governor of Cyprus, Isaac Comnenus of Cyprus from a minor line of the Imperial house, rose in rebellion and attempted to seize the throne.
As the queen was Greek, she was well loved by the Cypriots and the orthodox church.
www.mlahanas.de /Cyprus/History/CyprusMiddleAges.html   (3015 words)

  
 Isabella of Jerusalem Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She was the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem and Maria Comnena, daughter of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus.
They had two daughters, Alice (born 1196) and Philippa of Champagne.
Amalric II of Jerusalem (also Amalric I of Cyprus), brother of Guy of Lusignan.
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 Alice Roi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The authors of this period appropriated the structures, motifs, alice roi and themes of Carroll's works to engage in larger cultural debates raised by the Alice books alice roi and their reception.
Alice of Champagne - Queen Alice of Cyprus, born Alice of Jerusalem or Alice de Champagne (1196–1246) was the daughter of Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem and Count Henry II of Champagne (Henry I of Jerusalem).
Alice (album) - Alice is an album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music) on Epitaph Records (under the Anti sub-label).
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 The world's top kingdom of jerusalem websites
Some important sources of information about life in the Kingdom of Jerusalem are William of Tyre from the Christian perspective, and Usamah ibn Munqidh from the Muslim perspective.
Although the Mongols invaded Syria on several occasions, they were repeatedly defeated by the Mamluks, who took their revenge on the practically defenseless Kingdom, taking its cities one by one until, in 1291, Acre, the last stronghold, was taken by the Sultan Khalil.
The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which has gone through several different varieties of a cross or (gold) on an argent (silver) field, is a famous violation of or exception to the rule of tincture in heraldry, which prohibits the placement of metal on metal or colour on colour.
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 Bohemund V of Antioch - TheBestLinks.com - Bohemond V of Antioch, Cyprus, Louis IX of France, TheBestLinks.com:Find or ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Bohemond V of Antioch, Bohemund V of Antioch, Cyprus, Louis IX of France...
In 1225, Bohemund was married to Princess Alice of Jerusalem, Queen Dowager of Cyprus, whom he divorced in 1229.
His second marriage was to Luciana of Segni, who gave him his son and successor to the titles of Antioch and Tripoli, Bohemund VI of Antioch.
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 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
On December 25, 1137 Eleanor was crowned queen of France.
Her marriage to Louis was growing more stressed, despite interventions by the pope Eugenius and the abbot Suger, regent of France during the absence of the royal couple.
She was queen of England and France and ruled as regent several times with perhaps better success than her male counterparts.
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 Women in power 1300-1350
1313 and 1316-31 Sovereign Princess Mathilde d'Avesnes-Hainault of Achaia and Morea, Queen of Thessalonica (Greece)
His son, Håkon of Norway was married to Queen Margrethe of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Her daughters were Elżbieta Łokietkówna, Queen of Hungary and Regent of Poland and Kunegunda, Princess regent of Świdnica.
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 Maria Comnena, Queen consort of Jerusalem
1150-between 1208 and 1217) was the second wife of King Amalric I of Jerusalem and mother of Isabella of Jerusalem.
She was the daughter of Ioannes Comnenus, sometime Byzantine dux in Cyprus, and Maria Taronitissa, a descendant of the ancient Armenian kings.
As the grandmother of Alice of Champagne (Isabella's daughter by her third husband, Henry II of Champagne), Maria conducted the marriage negotiations with Cyprus in 1208 – Alice was to marry Hugh I of Cyprus.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Medieval/Bio/MariaComnenaOfIoannes.html   (511 words)

  
 Kingdom of Jerusalem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Guy of Lusignan 1186 - 1192 (with Sibylla, 1186 - 1190; Jerusalem lost in 1187 - remaining kings are nominal only)
After the end of the kingdom, Henry II continued to use the title "King of Jerusalem." After his death the title was claimed by both his direct hiers, the Kings of Cyprus, and the senior branch of the dynesty, the Kings of Naples.
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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 hugh i of cyprus
Hugh I of Cyprus (died 1218) succeeded to the throne of Cyprus in 1205 upon the death of his father Amalric of Lusignan.
Hugh was married to his stepsister Alice of Champagne, daughter of Isabella of Jerusalem.
Henry I, who became King of Cyprus upon his father's death in 1218, with his mother acting as regent.
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 Alice of Cyprus - TheBestLinks.com - Alice of Jerusalem, Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1223, 1218, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Wikinfo | Kingdom of Jerusalem
Queen Plaisance of Cyprus, regent 1253 - 1261
Henry II 1285 - 1291 (Acre captured in 1291; kingdom ends)
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 Cleopatra VII - Queen of Egypt
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Heloise, d1421, = James I, King of Cyprus 1382-1398; titular King of Armenia from 1393 [son of Hugh IV de Lusignan, King of Cyprus, titular King of Crusader-Jerusalem]; begot
Tewosre [Twosret], # 9, Queen, last of the 19th-Dynasty, 1203-1199 [widow of Seti II, # 7, 1217-1209, 1st husband] =[her 2nd] Bay, 1st King of 20th-Dynasty [a Syrian prince, formerly the grand-vizier], 1199-1198, begot
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 Alice_of_jerusalem,_queen_of_cyprus info here at pinkjustis.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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Our Featured Alice_of_Jerusalem,_queen_of_Cyprus article on Alice of Champagne
In 1223 Alice married Bohemund V of Antioch, which was dissolved by annulment, and later she married Raoul of Soissons.
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  To the Moon, Alice - Insight On The News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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