John of Lusignan

John of Lusignan

John of Lusignan or Jean de Lusignan (ca 1329 or 1329/1330 – 1375), Regent of Cyprus and Titular Prince of Antioch. He was son of King Hugh IV of Cyprus and his second wife, Alix d'Ibelin.

He married twice, firstly in 1343 to Constanza de Aragon (d. after April 19, 1344), daughter of Frederick III of Sicily and Eleanor of Anjou, without issue, and secondly in 1350 to Alix d'Ibelin (d. after 1373), by whom he was the father of:
* Jacques de Lusignan (d. 1395/1397), Titular Count of Tripoli, married in 1385 to her cousin Marguerite or Marie de Lusignan (ca 1360 – ca 1397), once engaged to Carlo Visconti, daughter of his brother Pierre I de Lusignan and second wife Leonor de Aragon-Gandia, the parents of:
** Jean de Lusignan (d. 1428/1432), Titular Count of Tripoli, unmarried and without issue
** Pierre de Lusignan (d. February 10, 1451), Titular Count of Tripoli, Regent of Cyprus, Titular Constable and Titular Seneschal of Jerusalem, married his cousin ca 1415 Isabelle de Lusignan, Princess of Cyprus, daughter of Jacques I de Lusignan, King of Cyprus, and wife Helvis or Helisia of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, without issue, and had an illegitimate son:
*** Phoebus de Lusignan, Titular Marshal of Armenia and Titular Lord of Sidon
** Eleonore de Lusignan (d. ca 1414), married ca 1406 her cousin Henri de Lusignan (d. 1427), Titular Prince of Galilee, son of Jacques I de Lusignan, King of Cyprus, and wife Helvis or Helisia of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, without issue
** Loysia de Lusignan, (probably) married after March 19, 1406 her cousin Eudes de Lusignan (d. Palermo, 1421), Titular Seneschal of Jerusalem, in the service of the King of Aragon, son of Jacques I de Lusignan, King of Cyprus, and wife Helvis or Helisia of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, without issue

Out of wedlock he had an illegitimate son by Alice Embriaco de Giblet:
* Jean de Lusignan (d. after 1410), Titular Lord of Beirut, married in 1385 to Marguerite de Morpho, the parents of:
** Jean de Lusignan (d. ca 1456), Titular Lord of Beirut

He was murdered as a result of his involvement in the murder of his elder brother, King Peter I of Cyprus. The historian Estienne de Lusignan is his descendant. This is the Prince John that the Prince John Tower of the St. Hilarion Castle was named after. Tradition says that he executed the two Bulgarians, that consisted his personal guard, by thowing them one by one from the windows of the particular tower.

References

* http://www.northcyprus.net/placestovisit.php?place_id=19
* http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ncyprus/city/kyrenia/castle/sthilarion/index.html
* http://genealogy.euweb.cz/poitou/poitou3.html


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