Alice of Champagne (fl. 1200s)

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Alice of Champagne (fl. 1200s)

Queen of Cyprus. Flourished in the 1200s; daughter of Isabella I of Jerusalem (d. 1205) and Henry II of Champagne, king of Jerusalem (r. 1192–1197); married her stepbrother Hugh I, king of Cyprus (r. 1205–1218); children: Henry I, king of Cyprus (r. 1218–1253); Isabella (who married John of Lusignan).

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