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Henry of Lusignan or Henri de Lusignan (died 7 July 1426), Titular Prince of Galilee, a military leader in Egypt, killed in action at Khirokitia or Chirokhitia. He was son of James I of Cyprus and his first wife Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen.
Lusignan Family, noble family of Poitou (a province of western France) that provided numerous crusaders and kings of Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Lesser Armenia. A branch of the family became counts of La Marche and Angoulême and played a role in precipitating the baronial revolt in England against King.
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The House of Lusignan (/ ˈ l uː z ɪ n. j ɒ n / LOO-zin-yon; French:) was a royal house of French origin, which at various times ruled several principalities in Europe and the Levant, including the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Armenia, from the 12th through the 15th centuries
The historian of Poitou sees the Lusignans as the most turbulent and vigorous of the region's baronial dynasties -one which in the thirteenth century almost succeeded in creating a feudal principality between the Loire and the Garonne.
The Lusignan family originated in the Poitou near Lusignan in western France in the early tenth century. By the end of the eleventh century, they had risen to become the most prominent petty lords in the region from their castle at Lusignan.
The Château de Lusignan (in Lusignan, Vienne département, France), of which hardly any traces remain, was the ancestral seat of the House of Lusignan, Poitevin Marcher Lords, who distinguished themselves in the First Crusade and became the royal family of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Cyprus and the Armenian Kingdom of ...
28 apr 2022 · Henry II of Jerusalem and Cyprus, born Henri de Lusignan (June 1270 – 31 March [1] 1324) was the last ruling and first titular King of Jerusalem (after the fall of Acre on 28 May 1291, this title became titular) and also ruled as King of Cyprus as Henry II. He was a Lusignan dynast.
