Hugo II (Cyprus)

Hugos II coat of arms

Hugo II (* 1252 - † November 1267 ) was King of Cyprus and Regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem .

In 1254, at the age of a few months, he succeeded his father Henry I as King of Cyprus under the reign of his mother Plaisance of Antioch .

Although he had no legal claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which at the time was nominally ruled by Konradin von Hohenstaufen , who was also a child and also still in Europe, he and his mother were in 1258 by Plaisance's brother Bohemond VI. brought to Acre and made "Lord of Jerusalem" or regent.

When Plaisance died in 1261, the reign in Cyprus passed to his cousin Hugo , while the reign in the Kingdom of Jerusalem was taken over by his mother Isabella of Cyprus . Hugo II died in November 1267 at the age of 14 and was buried in the Dominican Church in Nicosia . He was married to Isabella von Ibelin , mistress of Beirut. The marriage was never consummated and in 1265 Pope Clement IV repealed it. He was followed by his cousin Hugo as Hugo III. of Cyprus.

Thomas Aquinas possibly dedicated his unfinished work De regimine principum (" On the rule of the princes ") to him, but it was only published when both were already dead.

Web links

• Hugo II. At medieval-genealogie.de
• Hugues of Cyprus at fmg.ac (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich I.	King of Cyprus 1253–1267	Hugo III