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1. www.cambridge.org › core › booksRemembering the Crusaders in Cyprus: The Lusignans, the ...

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   Jul 13, 2019 · Richard subsequently sold the island to the Templars, but when they decided not to keep it he sold it to the deposed former Latin king of Jerusalem Guy of Lusignan. Guy and his successors established a Latin dynasty which ruled Cyprus until the 1480s.

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   Melusine's secret discovered, from Le Roman de Mélusine by Jean d'Arras, ca 1450–1500. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Mélusine (French:) or Melusine or Melusina is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river.

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   Was Lusignan founded by a fairy?

   • The author, promising to tell us “how the noble and powerful fortress of Lusignan in Poitou was founded by a fairy,” writes a ceaselessly astonishing account of the origins of the powerful feudal dynasty of the Lusignans in southwestern France, which flourished in western Europe and the Near East during the age of the Crusades.

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   When did Léon de Lusignan die?

   • In late 1393, only a few months after the completion of Jean d’Arras’s Melusine, Léon de Lusignan died in Paris. Less than a decade later, a certain Coudrette composed a romance in octosyllabic French verse, the Roman de Lusignan; ou, Histoire de Lusignan, for Guillaume Larchevêque, the Lord of Parthenay.

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   Was Lusignan a descendant of Melusine?

   • According to widespread popular belief in the region, however, any legitimate claimant to Lusignan had to be a descendant of Melusine. Significant in this regard was Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of King Jean II and Jean de Berry’s mother, who was the daughter of Jean of Luxembourg, the King of Bohemia and a Lusignan descendant.

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   Could a Lusignan be the instigator of a new crusade?

   • Coudrette is perhaps suggesting here, as Laurence Harf-Lancner points out, that a Lusignan may yet be the instigator of a new and glorious crusade. During the later Middle Ages and continuing through the Renaissance and beyond, Melusine once again became a prominent figure in folklore and popular culture.

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4. www.psupress.org › books › titlesMelusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan By Jean d'Arras ...

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   The spellbinding story of the destinies of the fairy Melusine, her mortal husband, and her extraordinary sons blends history, myth, genealogy, folklore, and popular traditions with epic, romance, and Crusade narrative.

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   3.59. 144 ratings17 reviews. Jean d'Arras's splendid prose romance of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, is one of the most significant and complex literary works of the later Middle Ages. The author, promising to tell us "how the noble and powerful fortress of Lusignan in Poitou was founded by a fairy ...

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6. www.cambridge.org › core › booksThe Lusignan dynasty (Chapter 3) - The Kingdom of Cyprus and ...

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   Jun 1, 2011 · According to a tradition current in the mid-thirteenth century, his career was launched by King Amaury (1163–74) who was said to have ransomed him from captivity in Damascus. In 1180 it was Aimery of Lusignan who persuaded Guy to come to Jerusalem.

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   Aug 15, 2014 · Written in French prose in the 14th century the author gives us the tale of the founding of Lusignan brought about by a union of a noble man and a mysterious woman under a curse that he meets one day after he accidentally kills his uncle.

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   Apr 25, 2013 · Paperback – April 25, 2013. Considerable interest in faery tradition has grown up in recent years and not least in the story of Melusine of Lusignan, the subject of a prose romance by Jean d'Arras at the end of the 14th century, swiftly followed by one in verse by Couldrette.

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