Eschiva from Beirut

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Eschiva of Beirut (* around 1253, † 1312 ) was a member of the House of Ibelin , mistress of Beirut and Cypriot queen mother in the late 13th century. She was the younger daughter of John II of Ibelin , Lord of Beirut, and Alix de la Roche.

Eschiva was married in 1274 to Humfried von Montfort , a younger son of Philip of Montfort , Lord of Tire . As later children of their fathers, neither couple could expect an inheritance; In Beirut, after the death of John II in 1264, Eschiva's older sister, Isabella , succeeded him as mistress. But then Isabella died childless in 1282 and Eschiva succeeded her in rule over Beirut. The following year, her brother-in-law also died without children, so that Humfried succeeded him as lord of Tire. However, her husband died on February 12, 1284, whereby Tire was lost to Eschiva. The marriage to Humfried produced five sons and one daughter:

  • The sons Johann, Philipp and Guyotin as well as the daughter Alix died as children.
  • Amalrich von Montfort († December 28, 1304).
  • Ruben von Montfort († September 8, 1313), titular lord of Beirut.

In the spring of 1291 Eschiva was first betrothed to Amalrich von Lusignan , the brother of the Cypriot king and the new lord of Tire. But only a few weeks later she was married to his younger brother Guido von Lusignan and endowed with Lapithos as a morning gift. On July 31 of the same year she suffered the loss of Beirut, which was also conquered by the Egyptian Mamluks shortly after the fall of Acre . As compensation for this loss, her husband was given the office of royal connétable by his brother, King Henry II of Cyprus , in 1292 . Guido died around 1303. His marriage to him had two children:

  • Hugo von Lusignan († October 10, 1359), who as Hugo IV. Succeeded his uncle on the throne of Cyprus.
  • Isabella of Lusignan, ⚭ 1322 Eudes de Dampierre-sur-Salon, 1324 Connétable of Jerusalem.

In 1308 Eschiva sailed to Athens to assert her inheritance right to the Duchy of Athens after the childless death of her cousin Guido II . However, her right of inheritance was rejected by the Haute-Cour of the Duchy in favor of Walter V of Brienne . She was shipwrecked on the journey home to Cyprus.

She died in 1312 and was buried in Nicosia Cathedral.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Templars of Tire : Gestes des Chiprois. S. 774, III, § 371.
  2. ↑ Chronique d'Amadi. P. 215.
  3. ↑ Templars of Tire: Gestes des Chiprois. Pp. 790-791, III, § 423.
  4. ↑ Chronique d'Amadi. P. 240.
  5. ↑ Chronique d'Amadi. P. 395.
  6. ↑ Chronique d'Amadi. P. 227.
  7. ↑ Templars of Tire: Gestes des Chiprois. Pp. 856-857, III, § 658.
  8. ↑ Chronique d'Amadi. Pp. 294-298.
  9. ↑ Wipertus Hugo Rudt de Collenberg: Les Ibelin aux XIII e et XIV e siècles. Généalogie compilée principalement selon les registres du Vatican. In: Κέντρου Επιστημονικών Ερευνών. Επετηρίς. 9, 1977/1979, ZDB -ID 442840-7 , pp. 117-265, here p. 138.

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Isabella Lady of Beirut
1282–1291 		Mamluk Sultanate
personal data
SURNAME Eschiva from Beirut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eschiva from Ibelin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mistress of Beirut
DATE OF BIRTH around 1253
DATE OF DEATH 1312