Wie trouwde met Sibylla van Jeruzalem?

Sibylla van Jeruzalem (1160 - Tyrus, 25 juli 1190) was de dochter van Amalrik I van Jeruzalem en zijn eerste echtgenote Agnes van Courtenay. Ze was zo de zus van Boudewijn IV van Jeruzalem en tevens een halfzus van Isabella van Jeruzalem.

In de periode 1176-1186 was ze gravin van Jaffa en Ashkolon en in 1186 werd ze koningin van Jeruzalem. Ze nam noodgedwongen de plaats van haar zoon, koning Boudewijn V in toen die vroegtijdig overleed.

Haar grootmoeder Melisende van Jeruzalem had al bewezen, als vrouwelijk heerser succesvol te kunnen zijn. Ze werd grotendeels opgevoed door Yvette, de jongste zus van Melisende, die werkzaam was in het Sint-Lazarus klooster.

Willem van Monferrato, bijg Langzwaard, (1150- Ascalon, 1177) was de oudste zoon van Willem V van Monferrato en Judith van Babenberg. Doordat hij nog vóór zijn vader stierf, werd hijzelf geen markgraaf van Monferrato.

Willem kwam naar het Heilig Land en trouwde met Sibylla van Jeruzalem, halfzuster van koning Boudewijn IV van Jeruzalem, die hem de graafschappen Jaffa en Ascalon schonk. Hij stierf aan malaria in Ascalon in 1177. Zijn postume zoon, Boudewijn, zou koning van Jeruzalem worden.

Guy of Lusignan (c. 1150 – 1194) was king of Jerusalem, first as the husband and co-ruler of Queen Sibylla from 1186 to 1190, then as disputed ruler from 1190 to 1192. He was also lord of Cyprus from 1192 to 1194. As king, Guy was highly unpopular amongst the nobles of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and is often blamed for the fall of the kingdom to Saladin.

Guy, a Frankish Poitevin knight, was the youngest son of Hugh VIII of Lusignan. After killing Patrick, 1st Earl of Salisbury, in a failed attempt to kidnap Eleanor of Aquitaine, he was banished from Poitou. After arriving in the Holy Land at an unknown date from 1173 to 1180, Guy was hastily married to Sibylla, the sister of Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, in 1180 to prevent a political coup. As Baldwin's health deteriorated due to his leprosy, he appointed Guy as regent in 1183. However, Guy proved to be unpopular and incompetent as a leader, and Baldwin IV resumed power later that year. He stripped Guy of his inheritance, naming Baldwin V, Sibylla's son by her first husband William, as his co-king and eventual successor instead. Baldwin IV died in 1185, followed shortly by the sickly Baldwin V in 1186, leading to the succession of Sibylla. Sibylla was told to annul her marriage to Guy in order to ascend to the throne on the condition that she would be allowed to pick her next husband, but astonished the court by choosing to remarry and crown Guy. Guy's reign was marked by increased hostilities with the Ayyubids, ruled by Saladin, culminating in the Battle of Hattin in July 1187—during which Guy was captured—and the fall of Jerusalem itself three months later.

Following a year of imprisonment in Damascus, Guy was released by Saladin and reunited with his wife. After being denied entry to Tyre, one of the last crusader strongholds, by Conrad of Montferrat, Guy besieged Acre in 1189. The siege, during which Guy's wife and children died during an epidemic, developed into a rallying point for the Third Crusade, led by Philip II of France and Richard I of England. Conrad married Sibylla's half-sister Isabella and entered a bitter conflict with Guy over the kingship of Jerusalem. Despite Richard's support for the widower king, the kingdom's nobility elected Conrad king in 1192, and Richard compensated Guy for the dispossession of his crown by giving him lordship of Cyprus. The Assassins killed Conrad days after his election; Guy ruled the Kingdom of Cyprus until he died in 1194 when he was succeeded by his elder brother Aimery.