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MARIA of Antioch (-after 10 Dec 1307). The Lignages d'Outremer name "Ysabiau
et Marie et Helvys" as the three daughters of "le prince Borgne" and his wife
"Melicent la princesse", specifying that Marie is "ceste qui est en Acre"(Lignages
d'Outremer, Marciana Ms Francese 20, CC.XCII, p. 68).
On the death of Conradin von Hohenstaufen, King of Jerusalem, 29 Oct 1268,
Maria claimed to succeed to the throne of Jerusalem on the grounds that she
belonged to an earlier generation of the family than her nephew Hugues III King of
Cyprus, but the High Court of Jerusalem rejected her claim. She refused to accept
the verdict, issued a formal protest on the day of the coronation of King Hugues
and left for Rome to appeal to the Papal Curia which allowed her to raise the issue
at the Council of Lyon in 1274. The outcome was unchanged, but Pope Gregory X
arranged for her to sell her titular rights to the kingdom of Jerusalem to Charles I
King of Sicily [Anjou-Capet] in Mar 1277 for 1000 gold pounds and an annuity of
4000 pounds tournois (Runciman (1978), Vol. 3, pp. 328-9). The agreement
between King Charles and "domicella Maria" is dated 20 Jun 1289 (Mas de Latrie,
M. L. (1855) Histoire de l´Ile de Chypre (Paris) Vol. 2, p. 85).
Maria of Antioch (died after 10 December 1307), daughter of Prince Bohemond
IV of Antioch and his second wife Melisende de Lusignan, was the pretender to the
throne of Jerusalem from 1269 to 1277. By her mother, she was the granddaughter
of Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem, and her fourth husband, King Amalric II of
Jerusalem.
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