Hugh I of Cyprus

Gold bezant of Hugh I of Cyprus, 1205-1218.

Hugh I of Cyprus or Hugues I de Lusignan (1194/1195 – January 10, 1218) succeeded to the throne of Cyprus on April 1, 1205 underage upon the death of his elderly father Amalric of Lusignan, King of Cyprus and King-Consort of Jerusalem. His mother was Eschiva of Ibelin, heiress of that branch of Ibelins who had held Bethsan and Ramleh.

Hugh was married September, 1210 at Nicosia to his stepsister Alice of Champagne of Jerusalem (ca 1196 or 1195/1196 – 1246), daughter of his father's last wife Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem and her previous husband Henry de Champagne, king-consort of Jerusalem. The couple had three children:

1. Marie de Lusignan (before March, 1215 – ca 1252 or 1254), who married Count Walter IV of Brienne in 1233 (ca 1200 – murdered at Cairo, 1244). She became mother of Hugh of Brienne (c 1240-1296), who was Count of Lecce and Brienne and pursued the kingdoms in Levant for himself when his uncle Henry's line began to go extinct. This claim fell to her grandson Walter V of Brienne and his descendants. They are the heirs-general of King Amalric I of Cyprus and Hugh I himself.
2. Isabelle de Lusignan (1216-1264), who married Henry of Antioch, and who was the mother of Hugh III of Cyprus and ancestress of the line named later as the second dynasty of Lusignan
3. Henri I de Lusignan (1217-1253), namesake of his maternal grandfather, who became King of Cyprus upon his father's death in 1218, with his mother acting as regent.

He died at Tripoli and was buried at the Church of the Hospitallers at Tripoli, then at the Church of the Hospitallers at Nicosia.