Lady Sybil's Choice: A Tale of the CrusadesHolt, Emily Sarah
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Lady Sybil's Choice: A Tale of the Crusades
Holt, Emily Sarah
Crusades -- Fiction; Historical fiction
(B) Conrado, Marquis of Monferrato, Count of Tyre: _mar._ 1190;
_assassinated_ at Tyre, Apr. 27, 1192.
(C) Henri, Count of Champagne: _mar._ 1193, _died_ at Acre, by accident,
1196-7.
(D) AMAURY DE LUSIGNAN, brother of Guy: _mar._ 1197, _d._ 1205.
[Character imaginary.]
_Issue of Sybil I. By Guglielmo_:—
1. BALDWIN V., _born_ 1180, _crowned_ Nov. 20, 1183; _died_ at Acre,
1186. [Character imaginary.]
_By Guy_:—
2, 3. DAUGHTERS, died with mother, during siege of Acre, 1190. [Some
writers ascribe four daughters to Sybil.]
_Issue of Isabel I. By Conrado_:—
1. Marie, or Violante, I. Married—
Jean de Brienne, third son of Erard II. Count of Brienne, and Agnes de
Montbeliard; Emperor of the East, 1233; _died_ Mar. 21, 1237.
_By Henri_:—
2. Alix I., _died cir._ 1246. Married—
(A) HUGUES DE LUSIGNAN, son of Amaury de Lusignan and Eschine d’Ibellin:
_died_ 1219.
(B) Bohemond IV., Prince of Antioch: _divorced_.
(C) Raoul, Count of Soissons: _died circ._ 1246.
3. Philippa, _mar._ 1214, Erard de Brienne, Lord of Rameru; living 1247.
_By Amaury_:—
4. Sybil, _mar._ Leon I., King of Armenia.
5. Robert, Abbot of St. Michael
6. Amaury, _died_ young.
_Issue of Marie I_.
Violante, _mar._ at Brindisi, 1223-5, Friedrich II., Emperor of Germany:
_died_ 1228-9.
From this marriage the Emperors of Germany and Austria derive the empty
title of Kings of Jerusalem. They have no right to it, since the
posterity of Violante became extinct in the second generation. The
Kings of Italy, on the contrary, have a right to the title, being
descendants of Anna of Cyprus, the heir general of Alix I.
*III. HOUSE OF LUSIGNAN.*
It will be perceived from the following table, that in the story, the
three Williams, sons of Count Geoffrey, have been made into one; and
that the sisters, Alix and Elaine, are fictitious characters.
The House of Lusignan begins about A.D. 900, with Hugues I., surnamed
_Le Veneur_. Eighth in descent from him we find—
Hugues VIII., died 1164. _Married_—
Bourgogne, daughter of Geoffroy de Rançon.
_Issue_:—
1. Hugues IX, _died_ 1206. _Married_—
Mahaud, daughter of Wulgrain III., Count of Angoulême.
2. GEOFFROY, COUNT DE LA MARCHE, living 1210. [Character imaginary.]
_Married_—
(A) Eustacie de Chabot.
(B) Clémence, daughter of Hugues Viscount de Châtelhérault. [Character
imaginary.]
_Issue of Hugues IX. and Mahaud_:—
Hugues X., le Brun: _killed_ at Massoura, 1249. _Married_—
Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême, and widow of John King of England;
_mar._ 1217-21; _died_ 1246.
[From this marriage sprang the House of Valence, Earls of Pembroke,
famous in English history.]
_Issue of Count Geoffroy and Eustacie_:—
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