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Is there any agreement on the spelling of names? Why Amalric, not Amaury, and why Henry, which is English?

--Yak 19:22, Mar 10, 2004 (UTC)

Why not? It's the English Wikipedia. Okay, Amalric isn't English, but we've used Amalric I of Jerusalem rather than Amaury or any of the other variations, so we used Amalric II for this one as well...but the others are Anglicized just for convenience, they're not really well-known under any name, so why not use English here? (We don't even use French forms for the French monarchs, Henry IV of France for example.) Adam Bishop 19:27, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

List of Kings of Cyprus[edit]

I inserted linebreak to the list of Kings of Cyprus which to my minds eye improved style and readability. Am open to further discussion.Dakota ~ ε °

~~Um, what are you smoking?~~ [sorry, that was inappropriate of me] The list was automatically line-broken before, as HTML lists are; all you've done is destroy the list style. I'm reverting. Choess 00:33, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do not smoke. Used <br> as opposed to *. I don't see that it was destroyed as it still links but have no problems with the revert?--Dakota ~ ε ° 05:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I apologize. I was rude and I am sorry. By "destroyed", I mean that your edit removed the bullet points (and, when converted to HTML, the markup indicating that it's a list), but didn't change the linebreaking. Did you mean that the list is more readable without the bullets? The use of bullets is, as far as I can tell, standard for lists in Wikipedia; see Help:List. Choess 06:01, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. That was a bit of the WikiFairy in me. Thanks for that link which I have bookmarked.--Dakota ~ ε ° 07:45, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

House of Savoy[edit]

Did the House of Savoy consistently claim and use this title from Queen Charlotte's death until they actually got a real kingdom in 1713? Did anyone ever recognize them as Kings? Does anybody know? john k 21:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

According to [1], it appears to have lapsed after Charlotte's death and been revived in 1632. Velde says that the assumption of the style of "Royal Highness" by the Savoy in 1633 received imperial recognition in 1690. Choess 21:52, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So the Dukes of Savoy from Victor Amadeus I onwards called themselves Kings of Cyprus, then, and were eventually recognized as such? This should perhaps be noted. john k 22:47, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Peter I of Cyprus[edit]

On Peter I of Cyprus it says he ruled from 1358, but on here we have that he ruled from 1359. Does anyone know which is correct. Davewild 19:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it's 1358; Hugh IV resigned the throne about a year before his death. Choess 19:48, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Native name[edit]

Why is the "native name" in Greek? The administrative language would have been Latin, or French, or Italian, wouldn't it? (Although I'm sure it had a Greek name, of course, and I can't seem to find a Latin name...) Adam Bishop (talk) 19:36, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In the 1280s Henry II of Cyprus issued a charter in which he refered to his kingdom as the roiaume de Cipre according to FMG. Srnec (talk) 21:29, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Religion[edit]

For religion is there a reason behind calling the Catholic and Orthodox Churches Latin Christianity and Greek Christianity? If not I believe it should be changed to the more commonly used terms of Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy ----Rcollins03 (talk) 23:51, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kingship[edit]

Who elevated Cyprus to a Kingdom ?

Siyac 08:30, 24 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.151.75.194 (talk)

Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, in 1194. Adam Bishop (talk) 01:48, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Richard's rule[edit]

Did Richard attempt to formalize his rule of Cyprus in some way? Did he take a new title ("Lord of Cyprus," like Guy used), or annex it to one of his other territories (England?), or...? --Jfruh (talk) 18:23, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

very interesting question. I would like to know too.

about pretenders it says: "Charlotte to the Italian house of Savoy and Catarina Cornaro to the Republic of Venice which asserted its claim to the kingdom as a republic, without even a candidate for king."

I suppose the doges of Venice were supposed to be kings of Cyprus then. along their other titles as e.g. duke of the croats added when part of the Croatian coast was conquered. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.33.149.190 (talk) 14:13, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Faulty flag/coa[edit]

Am I the only one who sees the colors in the lower left quadrant of the flag and coat of arms are inverted? Either the flag (gold on red) is faulty, or the coat of arms (red on gold) is. They can't both by correct. 81.206.240.225 (talk) 20:37, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Native" names[edit]

As with the Kingdom of Jerusalem article, I've removed the "native" Greek name. The main languages of the kingdom were French (where there are plenty of different spellings - Royaume/Reyaume/Reyaume/Reame etc, de Chypre/Chipre) and Latin (Regnum Cypri or Regnum Cyprense). Of course there were Greek speakers there but they did not call it a "basileion". Both Cyprus and Jerusalem were called a "Rhegaton" in medieval Greek (there was only one basileion, the Roman empire in Constantinople). Adam Bishop (talk) 22:18, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Third Crusade[edit]

This article might have lost an opening para at some stage. The first para launches into discussing Richard (the Lionheart?) and Isaac (no idea) without identifying them. Would be good if someone who knows their stuff could do that. SpoolWhippets (talk) 03:56, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the paragraph was deleted for being a copyright violation...although the website that it was supposedly copied from might just as well have copied it from Wikipedia. Adam Bishop (talk) 02:22, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fairly sure it was added after the website was created. Internet Archive and all. I could be wro my, but I don't have the time to check myself at the moment. Sennecaster (Chat) 13:37, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]