Guy of Lusignan

Guy, youngest son of Hugh VIII of Lusignan, fled Poitou after killing an earl in a botched kidnapping of Eleanor of Aquitaine. He arrived in the Holy Land sometime between 1173 and 1180, where Baldwin IV hastily married him to his sister Sibylla in 1180 to block a coup. Baldwin, dying of leprosy, made Guy regent in 1183 but stripped him of power within months for incompetence, naming Sibylla's young son Baldwin V as heir instead. When both Baldwins died by 1186, Sibylla was told to annul her marriage to ascend alone - then stunned the court by choosing Guy again and crowning him herself. His reign brought war with Saladin, ending at Hattin in July 1187 where Guy was captured and Jerusalem fell three months later. Released after a year, he besieged Acre in 1189 - his wife and children died in the epidemic that followed - and held on through the Third Crusade with Richard I's backing. The nobles elected his rival Conrad of Montferrat king in 1192; Richard compensated Guy with Cyprus, where he ruled until his death in 1194.