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| | Cyprus History: Lusignan Period - The Reign of Pierre II |
 | | Nicosia and Famagusta were taken, the boy king was made a prisoner, a crushing indemnity was imposed on the island and Famagusta was retained as security for payment. |
 | | The position was complicated by the quarrel between the queen mother, Eleanor of Aragon, and the guardians of the young king, Jean, prince of Antioch, and Jacques, constable of Cyprus, who had both been concerned in the assassination of King Pierre I. |
 | | Queen Eleanor at first welcomed the invaders as a means of avenging the murder of her husband, but when she saw that the Genoese were bent on destroying her son's kingdom, she joined the other royalists and took refuge with Jacques, the constable of Cyprus, in the Kyrenia castle. |
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