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2 unusual facts about James II of Cyprus


James II of Cyprus

In 1460, with support from the Egyptian Mamluk sultan Sayf ad-Din Inal, James challenged her right to the throne, blockading her and her husband in the castle of Kyrenia for three years.

Kingdom of Cyprus

Eugene Matteo de Armenia (148?–1523), said by his own progeny to have been an illegitimate son of King James II of Cyprus and if born in the 1480s he was quite a posthumous specimen, alleged to have moved to Sicily then Malta, founder of the family of Baron di Baccari (Tal-Baqqar).


Charlotte de Bourbon, Queen of Cyprus

By his Greek mistress Marietta de Patras, he had an illegitimate son Jacques, who later reigned as King James II of Cyprus.

Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford

By Agnes Wallace, he had a bastard daughter, Janet, who married, at Malta, Lieutenant Count John Vella, RMA, Baron of Baccari, 14-generation descendant of king James II of Cyprus, the last of the Lusignan's.


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