Guy of Lusignan
French Poitevin knight and King of Jerusalem by right of marriage (c.1150–1194) (r. 1186–1192)
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The king who lost Jerusalem. Guy of Lusignan took the crown through his wife's defiant choice in 1186, led the kingdom straight into catastrophe at Hattin a year later, and watched Saladin dismantle nine decades of Crusader rule while he sat in a Damascus cell.
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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 rei…
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