Guy of Lusignan c. He was also Lord of Cyprus from to Having arrived in the Holy Land where his brother Aimery was already prominent at an unknown date, Guy was hastily married to Sibylla in to prevent a political incident within the kingdom. Baldwin IV died in , followed shortly by Baldwin V in , leading to the succession of Sibylla and Guy to the throne.
Guy's reign was marked by increased hostilities with the Ayyubids ruled by Saladin , culminating in the Battle of Hattin in July —during which Guy was captured—and the fall of Jerusalem itself three months later. Following a year of imprisonment in Damascus , Guy was released by Saladin. After being denied entry to Tyre , one of the last crusader strongholds, by Conrad of Montferrat , Guy besieged Acre in Guy entered a bitter row with Conrad over the kingship of Jerusalem; despite Richard's support for the widower king, Conrad married Sibylla's half-sister Isabella and was elected king by the kingdom's nobility.
Conrad was killed by Assassins days after the election; Richard's and Guy's involvement in the incident is suspected but unproven. Nevertheless, Guy was compensated for the dispossession of his crown by being given lordship of Cyprus in , which Richard had taken from the Byzantine Empire en route to the Levant.
Guy ruled the Kingdom of Cyprus until he died in when he was succeeded by his brother Aimery. Guy was a member of the House of Lusignan. Guy's father [ 2 ] and maternal uncle Geoffrey the Poitevin both took part in the Second Crusade. In , Guy and his brothers, in an attempt to capture Eleanor of Aquitaine, ambushed and killed Patrick, 1st Earl of Salisbury , governor of Poitou , who was returning from a pilgrimage to Santiago of Compostela.
They captured Patrick's nephew William the Marshal , then a knight-errant serving in his uncle's household, and allowed him to be ransomed by Eleanor, but were banished from Poitou by their overlord, Richard I, Duke of Aquitaine.
