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John II of Cyprus

King of Cyprus from 1432 to 1458

Field	Value
name	John II
image	Portret van Janus II van Cyprus Iohannes Del Gratia Cipri etc Rex (titel op object), RP-P-OB-5821.jpg
caption	Drawing of John, 1550 - 1600
succession	King of Cyprus
reign	29 June 1432 – 28 July 1458
predecessor	Janus
successor	Charlotte
house	Poitiers-Lusignan
father	Janus, King of Cyprus
mother	Charlotte of Bourbon
spouse	Amadea Palaiologina of Montferrat
Helena Palaiologina
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death_date

Helena Palaiologina

King James II (illeg.)
Queen Charlotte
Princess Cleopha}} John II or III of Cyprus (16 May 1418 – 28 July 1458) was the King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458. He was previously a titular Prince of Antioch.

History

Born 16 May 1418 in Nicosia, John was the son of king Janus of Cyprus and Charlotte of Bourbon. In May, sometime between 1435 and 1440, he married Amadea Palaiologina of Monferrato, daughter of John Jacob Palaiologos, Marquess of Montferrat. They had no children. His second wife, a distant relative of his first, was Helena Palaiologina, only child and daughter of Theodore II Palaiologos, Despot of the Morea, and his wife Cleofa Malatesta

By his second marriage he had:

Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus, married Prince John of Antioch. She died childless
Cleopha of Lusignan, died young

John died in Nicosia on 28 July 1458 and his daughter Charlotte succeeded to the throne. During his rule, Corycus, the only Cypriot stronghold in mainland Anatolia, was lost to the Karamanids in 1448.

John had an illegitimate son by Marietta de Patras

James II, King of Cyprus John appointed James, Archbishop of Nicosia at the age of 16. James did not prove ideal archbishop material, and was stripped of his title after murdering the royal chamberlain. His father eventually forgave him and restored him to the Archbishopric. James and Helena were enemies, vying for influence over John. After Helena died in 1458, it appeared that John would appoint James as his successor, but John died before he could make it so.

coat-of-arms of Lusignan of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Lesser Armenia

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