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  Cyprus History: Lusignan Period - The Rule of Hugues III
In 1267, the first year of his reign, Cyprus suffered from plague and famine, in which emergency the king was conspicuous in his efforts to help his people in their distress.
In 1269 Hugues III claimed the crown of Jerusalem by right of descent, was recognised as the lawful claimant by the barons and was crowned at Tyre.
Hugues III died at Tyre in 1284 and was buried in the Abbaye de la Paise, which he had himself embellished and endowed.
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 Encyclopedia: Kingdom of Cyprus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hugh of Antioch of the family of Poitiers-Aquitaine, Hugh I of Jerusalem (Hugh III of Cyprus) (died 1284), was the son of Isabella of Cyprus (daughter of Hugh I of Cyprus) and Henry of Antioch.
Hugh I of Cyprus (born 1194 or 1195, died 1218) succeeded to the throne of Cyprus in 1205 underage upon the death of his elderly father Amalric of Lusignan, King of Cyprus and King-Consort of Jerusalem.
John I of Cyprus, John II of Jerusalem (1259–May 20, 1285) was the eldest son of Hugh III of Cyprus and Isabella of Ibelin.
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 Hugh III of Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh III of Cyprus, Hugh I of Jerusalem, Hugh of Antioch or Hugh of Lusignan (died March 24, 1284), King of Cyprus 1267–1284 and King of Jerusalem 1268–1284, was the son of Henry of Antioch and Isabella of Cyprus, the daughter of Hugh I of Cyprus.
Hugh disliked dealing with the various factions in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and left for Cyprus in 1276 in disgust at their defiance of his authority.
Aimery (died 1316), Constable of Cyprus, briefly succeeded Amalric as Regent of Cyprus
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 Cyprus History | 300 Years of French Rule | Guy de Lusignan
In 1253 Henry I died and his only son Hugh II died at the age of fourteen, leaving the crown to pass to a cousin, Hugh III.
After Hugh III his eldest son John I ruled for a brief two years and in turn John I was suceeded by his brother Henry II.
Hugh IV was succeeded in 1359 by his son Peter I, who then started a short, but glorious reign.
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 Encyclopedia: Hugh III of Cyprus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Maria of Antioch pretended to the throne of Jerusalem from 1269 to 1277.
Hugh II (1253-1267) was king of Cyprus and regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Lusignan castle of Kantara in the Beşparmak mountains The Kingdom of Cyprus was a Roman Catholic Crusader kingdom on the island of Cyprus in the late Middle Ages.
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 History of Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Five days after the coup on 20 July Turkey invades Cyprus and captures 3% of the islands territory around the town of Kyrenia, driving out the Greek Cypriot population.
Facing threats from Turkey the United Nations and the Cyprus government agree to allow the Turkish Cypriots living in the free areas to be transferred by the UN and British SBA authorities to the occupied north against their will.
Cyprus as a whole joins the EU on 1 May but the EU acquis is suspended in the occupied north.
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 Kingdom of Jerusalem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This in turn led to the fiasco of the Second Crusade, when, despite the protests of the nobility of the Kingdom, the crusading Kings of France and Germany decided to attack not Zengi's son Nur ad-Din (who had succeeded him in 1146), but the friendly Emir of Damascus.
Baldwin III died mysteriously in 1162, and was succeeded by his brother Amalric I.
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.
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 Henry I of Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Henry I of Cyprus, nicknamed the Fat, aka Henry of Lusignan, Henri de Lusignan (1217-1253) reigned the Kingdom of Cyprus underage from January 10, 1218 to 1253.
He was the son of Hugh I of Cyprus and Alice of Champagne of Jerusalem.
If he had not had children, his heirs were his eldest sister's sons Jean de Brienne b 1234 and Hugues de Brienne (Hugh of Brienne bc 1240), as well as his younger sister's son Hugh of Antioch, the future Hugh III of Cyprus b c 1235.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Honorius III
Honorius III ordered Gualo, his legate in England, to urge the recalcitrant barons to return to their natural allegiance and gave him power to excommunicate all who continued to adhere to Prince Louis of France.
Henry III was acknowledged the undisputed King of England on 11 September, 1217.
Henry III was still in his minority, and he as well as the barons and the people acknowledged the pope as the suzerain of the kingdom.
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 Encyclopedia: Ninth Crusade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Henry III (October 1, 1207 – November 16, 1272) is one of the least-known British monarchs, considering the great length of his reign.
Charles, however, took advantage of a dispute between Hugh III, the Knights Templar, and the Venetians in order to bring Acre states under his control.
He bought Mary of Antioch's claims to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and attacked Hugh III, who actually then held the rump kingdom.
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 CRITON G. TORNARITIS Q.C. - Books
The Tripartite Conference on the Eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus was convened, however, and held in London from August 29 to September 7, 1955.
With regard to the recourse of the Greek government to the United Nations, the request for the application of the principle of self determination to Cyprus had not been acceded to, mainly because it was considered as aiming at a change of sovereignty of Cyprus.
The deterioration of conditions in Cyprus increased the efforts in the United Nations for the achievement of peace in the island and by resolution of the General Assembly in 1957 they recommended a democratic solution for the problem of Cyprus.
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 CalendarHome.com - Edward I of England - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
From 1239 to 1246 Edward was in the care of Hugh Giffard (the son of Godfrey Giffard) and his wife, Sybil, who had been one of the midwives at Edward's birth.
His second marriage, in September 1299, to Marguerite of France (known as the "Pearl of France" by her English subjects), the daughter of King Philip III of France (Phillip the Bold) and Maria of Brabant, produced three children.
In 1271, Hugh III of Cyprus arrived with a contingent of knights.
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 North Cyprus Tourism: Where To Visit
Hugh III, a Lusignan king, financed the majority of the construction.
Hugh IV was even more attached to Bellapais, adding magnificent apartments and living there between 1354 and 1358.
It was at its most importance during the Roman occupation of Cyprus, and was destroyed during the Arab invasion in the 7th Century.
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 Kings_of_Jerusalem
After the end of the kingdom, Henry II of Cyprus continued to use the title "King of Jerusalem." After his death the title was claimed by his direct heirs, the Kings of Cyprus.
She was the daughter of Prince Bohemond IV of Antioch and his second wife Melisende of Cyprus.
Hugh of Brienne and his heirs represent the senior heirs-general to the Kingdom, although they never pressed the claim after Hugh's rejection by the Haute Cour.
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 Kingdoms of Greece - Cyprus
The recorded history of Cyprus begins with the occupation of part of the island by Egypt.
Beginning with the rise of Assyria during the 8th century BC, Cyprus was under the control of each of the empires that successively dominated the eastern Mediterranean.
Alexander the Great took Cyprus from Persia in 333 BC, and after his death in 323 BC the island again became an Egyptian possession, under the Ptolemies.
www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/GreeceCyprus.htm   (363 words)

  
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The Republic of Cyprus is a constitutional republic and multiparty presidential democracy.
The Kingdom of Cyprus, casually seized from Romania by Richard, and given to the former King Guy, survived under its kings until 1489 and then under Venice until conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1571.
While originally a separate line from Jerusalem, Hugh III of Cyprus was elected King of Jerusalem in 1269.
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 Eighth Crusade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hugh III of Cyprus, nominal king of Jerusalem, landed in Acre to defend that city, while Baibars marched as far north as Armenia, which was at that time under Mongol control.
These events led to Louis' call for a new crusade in 1267, although there was little support this time; Jean de Joinville, the chronicler who accompanied Louis on the Seventh Crusade, refused to go.
Charles proclaimed Louis' son Philip III the new king, but due to his youth Charles became the actual leader of the crusade.
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 Cyprus - The Lusignan and Venetian Eras
In the thirteenth century, the kings of Cyprus, particularly Hugh III (reigned 1267-84), tried to assist the Latin Christians of the Syrian mainland in their final efforts to retain their holdings.
For a century after the fall of Acre, Cyprus attained and held a position of influence and importance far beyond that which such a small kingdom would normally enjoy.
In 1468, by virtue of a marriage between James II and Caterina Cornaro, daughter of a Venetian noble family, the royal house of Cyprus was formally linked with Venice.
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 Cyprus Heads
Isabella' ldest son, Hugo III, was king of Cypern (1235-84) and her daughter Marguerite Titular-Princess of Antiochiaia and Lady of Tyros and lived (before 1244-1308) and married to Jean de Montfort, Lord of Tyros (d.
Presenting himself to the sultan, who was suzerain of Cyprus, Jacques complained that, though next male heir to the throne, he had been driven from the island, and appealed successfully for help to recover his inheritance.
Caterina was allowed to remain Queen of Cyprus, but she had no real power, since all the principal offices of the kingdom were in the hands of the Venetians.
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 The Titles of the European Rulers
In 1489 Caterina Cornero ceded the island of Cyprus to the Republic of Venice.
The union with the Kingdom of Jerusalem ended with the death of King Amalrich, who was succeeded in Cyprus by his son Hugh I, and the Crown of Jerusalem passed to Mary of Montferrat, Amalrich's step-daughter (1205).
Hugh III, King of Cyprus, was recognized as King of Jerusalem after the execution of Conrad ("Conradin") of Hohenstaufen, King of Sicily and Jerusalem (1268)
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Count Hugh De Lusignan LA MARCHE, X ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
Hugh saw herand declared fervently that she must be his bride and not the little Joan.
Hugh was in love with his wife, but he was also very much attached to her broad acres and the handsome jointure she was supposed to receive each year.
Hugh of Lusignan and his wife had been present at Alfonse's investiture, and the widow of King John had gone away highly indignant at the slights put upon her dignity.
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 World of naval dockyards - Insula Portuosa
We know from documents that Cyprus contributed with ships to the various naval leagues that were formed under papal auspices after 1330 to combat piracy in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.
King Hugh IV of Cyprus sent 12 galleys and 12 pamphiliae against the Turks in 1336 and 21 galleys a year later.
The indications we have as to the existence of arsenals are scarce and mainly derive from the chroniclers, or the pilgrims who stopped to refuel in the island on their way to the Holy Land.
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 Kingdom of Jerusalem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This in turn led to the fiasco of the Second Crusade, when, despite the protests of the nobility of the Kingdom, the crusading Kings of VII of France">France and Germany decided to attack not Zengi's son Nur ad-Din (who had succeeded him in 1146), but the friendly Emir of Damascus.
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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.
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 EOKA - Phantis
EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston, in English National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters) was a Greek Cypriot military resistance organisation that fought for national self-determination and union (Enosis) with Greece in the mid- to late- 1950s.
Since Cyprus was under British sovereignty at the time, its objective was to attract world public opinion and support to its cause through sabotage against British installations, armed attacks against British troops and popular passive resistance.
From the discussion of the Cyprus question in the UN until the Zurich and London agreements (February 19, 1959).
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Alix of Champagne, Queen of Cyprus and daughter of King Henry I, claimed the regency on the ground of being Isabella of Brienne's nearest relative; and it was conferred upon her and her second husband Ralph, Count of Soissons, the imperial garrison, besieged in Tyre, being forced to capitulate.
King Hugh II of Lusignan had died in 1267, and his succession was disputed by his nephew, Hugh III, already King of Cyprus, and Mary of
In 1269 the barons acknowledged Hugh III, but the new king, unable to cope with the lack of discipline among his subjects, retired to Cyprus after naming Balian d'Ibelin regent of the kingdom (1276).
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 Properties and Real Estate Agents | NORTH CYPRUS - The History
A confidential FO paper about Cyprus, dated 19 November, had withdrawn the attention to "the fact that Greek irredentist claims set up a counter irritation in Turkey which, though content to leave matters as they are, would certainly take it very much amiss if Greek pressure for the handing over Cyprus to Greece became excessive.
The Greek application to the UN in 1954, demanding self-determination for Cyprus activated the Turkish foreign policy makers and a series of meetings took place in Ankara in August, working on the strategy and tactics to be followed.
Now that Makarios was free and Britain ready to transfer the sovereignty of Cyprus on condition of retaining her military bases, it was time to appoint a new civil governor who might create a new atmosphere towards this end.
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