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LUSIGNAN , the name of a See also:family which sprang from See also:Poitou' and distinguished itself by its connexion with the See also:kingdom of See also:Jerusalem, and still more by its See also:long See also:tenure of the kingdom of See also:Cyprus (1192-1475). A See also:Hugh de Lusignan appears in the See also:ill-fated crusade of Iloo-Ilor; another Hugh, the See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, came as a See also:pilgrim to the See also:Holy See also:Land in 1164, and was taken prisoner by Nureddin. In the last See also:quarter of the 12th See also:century the two See also:brothers See also:Amalric and See also:Guy, sons of Hugh the Brown, played a considerable See also:part in the See also:history of the Latin See also:East. About 1180 Amalric was See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable of the kingdom of Jerusalem; and he is said to have brought his handsome See also:brother Guy to the See also:notice of Sibylla, the widowed heiress of the kingdom.' Guy and Sibylla were married in 1180; and Guy thus became See also:heir presumptive of the kingdom, if the See also:young See also:Baldwin V., Sibylla's son by her first See also:marriage to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William of See also:Montferrat, should See also:die without issue. He acted as See also:regent in 1183, but he showed some incapacity in the struggle with See also:Saladin, and was deprived of all right of See also:succession. In 1186, however, on the See also:death of Baldwin V., he succeeded in obtaining the See also:crown, in spite of the opposition of See also:Raymund of See also:Tripoli. Next See also:year he suffered a crushing defeat at the See also:battle of Hittin, and was taken prisoner by Saladin. Released on See also:parole in 1188, he at once See also:broke his parole, and began the See also:siege of See also:Acre. Difficulties, however, had arisen with See also:Conrad of Montferrat; and when Guy lost his wife Sibylla in 1190, and Conrad married See also:Isabella, her See also:sister, now heiress of the kingdom, these difficulties culminated in Conrad's laying claim to the crown. Guy found his cause espoused in 1191 by the overlord of his See also:house, See also:Richard I. of See also:England; but Conrad's See also:superior ability, and the support of the See also:French crusaders, ultimately carried the See also:day, and in 1192 Richard himself abandoned the pretensions of Guy, and recognized Conrad as See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king. Though Conrad was almost immediately assassinated, the crown did not
' A See also:branch of the See also:line continued in Poitou during the 13th century, and ruled in LaMarche till 1303. Hugh de la See also:Marche, whose betrothed wife, Isabella of See also:Angouleme, King See also:John of England seized (thus bringing upon himself the loss of the greater part of his French possessions), was a See also:nephew of Guy of Lusignan. He ultimately married Isabella, after the death of John, and had by her a number of sons, See also:half-brothers of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III. of England, who came over to England, amongst other See also:foreign favourites, during his reign.
return to Guy, but went to Henry of See also:Champagne, who married the widowed Isabella. Guy found some See also:satisfaction for his loss in buying from the See also:Templars the See also:island of Cyprus, and there he reigned for the last two years of his See also:life (1192–1194). He is judged harshly by contemporary writers, as simplex and insufficiens; but Dodu (in his Histoire See also:des institutions du royaume de Jerusalem) suggests that Guy was depreciated because the kingdom had been lost in his reign, in much the same way as See also:Godfrey of See also:Bouillon was exalted because Jerusalem had just been won at his See also:accession. Guy was a brave if not a particularly able See also:knight; and his instant attack on Acre after his See also:release by Saladin shows that he had the sentiment de ses devoirs.
He was succeeded in Cyprus by his brother Amalric, who acquired the See also:title of king of Cyprus from the See also:emperor Henry VI., and became king of Jerusalem in 1197 by his marriage to Isabella, after the death of Henry of Champagne (see AMALRIC II.). Amalric was the founder of a See also:dynasty of See also:kings of Cyprus, which lasted till 1475, while after 1269 his descendants regularly enjoyed the title of kings of Jerusalem. The scions of the house of Lusignan proved themselves the most sincere of crusaders. They possessed in Cyprus a kingdom, in which they had vindicated for themselves a stronger hold over their feudatories than the kings of Jerusalem had ever enjoyed, and in which trading centres like See also:Famagusta flourished vigorously; and they used the resources of their kingdom, in See also:conjunction with the Hospitallers of See also:Rhodes, to check the progress of the Mahommedans.
Among the most famous members of the house who ruled in Cyprus three may be mentioned. The first is Hugh III. (the See also:Great), who was king from 1267 to 1285: to him, apparently, St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas dedicated his De Regimine Principum; and it is in his reign that the kingdom of Jerusalem becomes permanently connected with that of Cyprus. The second is Hugh IV. (13 24-1359), to whom See also:Boccaccio dedicated one of his See also:works, and who set on See also:foot an See also:alliance with the See also:pope, See also:Venice and the Hospitallers, which resulted in the See also:capture of See also:Smyrna (1344)• The last is See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter I., Hugh's second son and successor, who reigned from 1359 to 1369, when he was assassinated as the result of a See also:conspiracy of the barons. Peter and his See also:chancellor de See also:Mezieres represent the last flicker of the crusading spirit (see See also:CRUSADES).
Before the extinction of the line in 1495, it had succeeded in putting a branch on the See also:throne of See also:Armenia. Five See also:short-lived kings of the house ruled in Armenia after 1342, " Latin exiles," as See also:Stubbs says, " in the midst of several See also:strange populations all alike hostile." The kingdom of Armenia See also:fell before the See also:sultan of See also:Egypt, who took prisoner its last king See also:Leo V. in 1375, though the kings of Cyprus afterwards continued to See also:bear 'the title; the kingdom of Cyprus itself continued to exist under the house of Lusignan for too years longer. The See also:mother of the last king, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James III. (who died when he was two years old), was a Venetian See also:lady, Catarina See also:Cornaro. She had been made a daughter of the See also:republic at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of her marriage to the king of Cyprus; and on the death of her See also:child the republic first acted as See also:guardian for its daughter, and then, in 1489, obtained from her the cession of the island.
See J. M. J. L. de Mas-Latrie, Histoire de See also:file de Chypre sous See also:les princes de la maison de Lusignan (See also:Paris, 1852–1853); W. Stubbs, Lectures on See also:Medieval and See also:Modern History (3rd ed., See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, 19oo).
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