He took refuge with King Amalric I of Jerusalem, whose favour he gained, and who invested him with the Lordship of Beirut.

* Amalric I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem from 1162 to 1174

Amalric I of Jerusalem ( also Amaury or Aimery ) ( 1136 – 11 July 1174 ) was King of Jerusalem 1163 – 1174, and Count of Jaffa and Ascalon before his accession.

The marriage of Amalric I of Jerusalem and Maria Comnena at Tyre ( Lebanon ) | Tyre in 1167, as depicted in a MS of the Histoire d ' Outremer, painted in Paris c. 1295-1300.

After his return to Jerusalem in 1167, Amalric married Maria Comnena, a great-grandniece of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus.

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Amalric II of Jerusalem or Amalric I of Cyprus, born Amalric of Lusignan ( 1145 – 1 April 1205 ), King of Jerusalem 1197 – 1205, was an older brother of Guy of Lusignan.

In 1194, on the death of Guy, he became King of Cyprus as Amalric I.

After Eschiva's death in October 1197 he married Isabella, the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem by his second marriage, and became King of Jerusalem in right of his wife and crowned at Acre in January 1198.

Egypt's capital was permanently moved to Cairo, which was eventually expanded to include the ruins of Fustat and the previous capitals of al-Askar and al-Qatta ' i. While the Fustat fire successfully protected the city of Cairo, a continuing power struggle between Shawar, King Amalric I of Jerusalem, and Zengid general Shirkuh led to the downfall of the Fatimid establishment.

This was disputed by another branch of the Lusignan family: Maria of Antioch, daughter of Bohemond IV of Antioch and Melisende of Lusignan ( herself a daughter of Isabella I and Amalric II ), claimed the throne as the oldest living relative of Isabella I, but for the moment her claim was ignored.

Acre was defended by Henry II's brother Amalric of Tyre, the Hospitallers, Templars, and Teutonic Knights, the Venetians and Pisans, the French garrison led by Jean I de Grailly, and the English garrison led by Otton de Grandson, but they were vastly outnumbered.

Shirkuh engaged in a power struggle over Egypt with Shawar and Amalric I of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, in which Shawar requested Amalric's assistance.

* Maria Comnena, wife of Amalric I of Jerusalem ( b. c. 1154 ) ( latest possible date of death )

* Amalric I of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt.

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* Amalric I of Jerusalem

* July 11 – King Amalric I of Jerusalem ( b. 1136 )

Following William's return to Jerusalem in 1165, King Amalric I made him an ambassador to the Byzantine Empire.

In 1167 he was appointed archdeacon of the cathedral of Tyre by Frederick de la Roche, archbishop of Tyre, with the support of King Amalric I.

In 1167 Amalric married Maria Comnena, grand-niece of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus, and in 1168 the king sent William to finalize a treaty for a joint Byzantine-crusader campaign against Egypt.

* Amalric, Prince of Tyre, Governor of Cyprus from 1306 to 1310

Amalric II had already inherited Cyprus from Guy, and had been crowned king by Frederick Barbarossa's son, Emperor Henry VI.

The High Court of Cyprus had elected John of Ibelin as regent, but Henry's mother Alice of Champagne wished to appoint one of her supporters ; Alice and her party, members or supporters of the Lusignan dynasty, sided with Frederick, whose father had crowned Amalric of Lusignan king in 1197.

Guy ruled the Kingdom of Cyprus until his death in 1194, when he was succeeded by his brother Amalric.

The force was commanded by King Henry II of Jerusalem, the king of Cyprus, accompanied by his brother, Amalric, Lord of Tyre, and the heads of the military orders, with the ambassador of the Mongol leader Ghazan also in attendance.

In 1194, Guy de Lusignan died without any heirs and so his older brother, Amalric, became King Amalric I of Cyprus, a crown and title which was approved by Henry VI, the Holy Roman Emperor.

After his death, Isabella was married for a fourth time to Amalric II of Jerusalem ( also Amalric I of Cyprus ), brother of Guy of Lusignan.

From her fourth and final marriage to Amalric I of Cyprus she had the following children:

Her fourth ( and last ) husband was Amalric of Lusignan, king of Cyprus.

Amalric II of Cyprus married Isabella, he became joint ruler of Jerusalem with Isabella.

Isabella died shortly thereafter and Marie became queen of Jerusalem, at the age of thirteen, while her stepbrother Hugh, from the first marriage of Amalric, became King of Cyprus and married Maria's half-sister, Alice of Champagne.

They are the heirs-general of King Amalric I of Cyprus and Hugh I himself.

Hugh I of Cyprus ( or Hugues I de Lusignan ) ( 1194 / 1195 – January 10, 1218 ) succeeded to the throne of Cyprus on April 1, 1205 underage upon the death of his elderly father Amalric of Lusignan, King of Cyprus and Jerusalem.

They are the heirs-general of King Amalric I of Cyprus and Hugh I himself.

He was a son of Isabella, daughter of Leo II of Armenia, and Amalric, a son of Hugh III of Cyprus, and was made Governor of Serres in 1328 and until 1341.

# Isabella ( b. 12 January 1276 / 11 January 1277 – murdered May 1323 ), twin with Sempad ; married in 1293 with Amalric of Lusignan, Prince of Tyre, son of King Hugh III of Cyprus.

Amalric agreed and ascended the throne without a wife, although Agnes continued to hold the title Countess of Jaffa and Ascalon and received a pension from that fief's income.

Nevertheless, in 1171 Amalric visited Constantinople himself and envoys were sent to the kings of Europe for a second time, but again no help was received.

Guy died in 1194 without surviving issue ( his daughters by Sibylla, Alix de Lusignan and Marie de Lusignan both died young of plague at Acre in September or 21 October 1190 ) and was succeeded by his brother Amalric, who received the royal crown from Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

* Queen Maria Comnena, received the lordship as her dower ( morganaticum ) from her first husband King Amalric I

The Crusader king, Amalric I of Jerusalem, also received her in the Holy Land.

Amalric agreed and ascended the throne without a wife, although Agnes continued to hold the title Countess of Jaffa and Ascalon and received a pension from that fief's income.

He received the lordship of Nablus, which had been a dower gift to Maria following her marriage to Amalric.