Aimery of Cyprus (1145-1 April 1205) was King of Cyprus from 1194 to 1205, succeeding Guy de Lusignan and preceding Hugh I of Cyprus, and King of Jerusalem from 1197 to 1205, succeeding Isabella I of Jerusalem and preceding Maria of Montferrat.
Biography[]
Aimery de Lusignan was born in 1145, the son of Hugh VIII of Lusignan and Burgondie de Rancon, and he was the brother of Guy de Lusignan. In 1174, he arrived in Palestine after King Richard the Lionheart of England expelled him from Poitou for the murder of Patrick of Salisbury, and he married the French noblewoman Eschive d'Ibelin, the daughter of Baldwin of Ibelin. On 22 April 1179, he became constable of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and he was captured at the Battle of Hattin in 1187. After Guy's death in 1194, Aimery inherited the Kingdom of Cyprus, and on 22 September 1197 he was crowned King of Jerusalem. In 1198, he secured a five-year truce with the Saracens in the Holy Land, and in 1204 the treaty was renewed for six more years despite many infractions (raids). In 1205, Aimery died, and his son became Hugh I of Cyprus.