'''Amalric II of Jerusalem''' or '''Amalric I of Cyprus''' ([[1145]] – [[April 1]], [[1205]]), [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|King of Jerusalem]] [[1197]]–[[1205]], was an older brother of [[Guy of Lusignan]].
The [[Lusignan]] family was noted for its many Crusaders. Amalric and Guy were sons of [[Hugh VIII of Lusignan]], who had himself campaigned in the Holy Land in the [[1160s]]. After being expelled from [[Poitou]] by their overlord, [[Richard I of England|Richard the Lion-hearted]], for the murder of [[Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury]], Amalric arrived in Palestine c. [[1174]], Guy possibly later. Amalric married Eschiva, daughter of [[Baldwin of Ibelin]]. He then took service with [[Agnes of Courtenay]], wife of [[Reginald of Sidon]] and mother of [[Baldwin IV of Jerusalem]]. The pro-Ibelin ''Chronicle of [[Ernoul]]'' later claimed that he was her lover, but it is likely that she and Baldwin IV were attempting to separate him from the political influence of his wife's family. He was appointed [[Officers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem|Constable of Jerusalem]] soon after [[April 22]], [[1179]]. [[Guy of Lusignan|Guy]] married the king's widowed older sister, [[Sibylla of Jerusalem]] in [[1180]], and so gained a claim to the kingdom of Jerusalem.
Amalric was among those captured with his brother after the disastrous [[Battle of Hattin]] in [[1187]]. In [[1194]], on the death of Guy, he became [[Kingdom of Cyprus|King of Cyprus]] as Amalric I. By his first wife, Eschiva of Ibelin, he was the father of [[Hugh I of Cyprus]] and was crowned in [[Nicosia]] on [[September 22]], [[1197]]. After Eschiva's death in [[October]], [[1197]] he married [[Isabella of Jerusalem|Isabella]], the daughter of [[Amalric I of Jerusalem]] by his second marriage, and became [[kings of Jerusalem|King of Jerusalem]] in right of his wife and crowned at [[Acre]] in [[January]], [[1198]].
In 1198 he was able to procure a five years' truce with the [[Muslim]]s, owing to the struggle between [[Saladin]]'s brothers and his sons for the inheritance of his territories. The truce was disturbed by raids on both sides, but in [[1204]] it was renewed for six years.
Amalric died of dysentery (allegedly brought on by "a surfeit of white mullet") or even poisoned at Saint Jean d' [[Acre]] in 1205, just after his son Amalric and just before his wife, and was buried at [[Selimiye Mosque (Nicosia)|Saint Sophia]], [[Nicosia]]. The kingdom of Cyprus passed to [[Hugh I of Cyprus|Hugh]], his son by Eschiva, while the [[kingdom of Jerusalem]] passed to [[Maria of Montferrat|Maria]], the daughter of Isabella by her previous marriage with [[Conrad of Montferrat]].
==Wives and Children==
His first wife, married before [[October 29]], [[1174]], was Éschive d'Ibelin (c. [[1160]] – [[Cyprus]] in [[Winter]], [[1196]]/[[1197]]), daughter of [[Baldwin of Ibelin]] and first wife Richilde de Bethsan or Bessan. They had six children:
# Bourgogne de Lusignan ([[1176]]-[[1180]] or c. [[1178]] – c. [[1210]]), married as his third wife [[Raymond VI of Toulouse]] [[1193]], repudiated and divorced [[1194]] or [[1196]] without issue, married Gauthier I de Montfaucon aka Walter of Montbéliard (killed in action at the [[Battle of Satalia]], [[June 20]], [[1212]]) [[1197]] or bef. [[1205]]
# Guy de Lusignan, died young [[1197]]-[[1205]]
# Jean de Lusignan, died young [[1197]]-[[1205]]
# [[Hugh I of Cyprus|Hugues I de Lusignan]] (c. [[1194]]-[[1218]])
# Héloise/Helvis de Lusignan (c. [[1190]] – [[1216]]-[[1219]], [[1216]]/[[1219]] or c. [[1217]]), married firstly c. [[1205]] Eudes de Dampierre sur Salon, Lord of Chargey-le-Grey, div. [[1210]], married secondly before [[1210]] or in [[September]], [[1210]] [[Raymond-Roupen of Antioch]]
# Alix de Lusignan, died young [[1197]]-[[1205]]
His second wife was Queen [[Isabella of Jerusalem]], married [[January]], [[1198]] in [[Akko|Acre]]. They had three children:
# [[Sybilla of Lusignan|Sybille de Lusignan]] ([[October]]/[[November]], [[1198]]-c. [[1230]] or [[1252]]), married King [[Leo II of Armenia]]
# Mélissende de Lusignan (c. [[1200]] – aft. [[1249]]), married [[January 1]], [[1218]] [[Bohemund IV of Antioch]]
# Amalric or Amaury de Lusignan ([[1201]] – [[February 2]], [[1205]], [[Acre]])
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