Rather, they were as disdainful of non-Catholic Christianity as of Islam. However, they did not forge close cultural links with the world around their Crusader states.
The Lusignan dynasty ruled at the edge of Europe, where the European space encountered the Muslim space. The Armenian and Cypriot branches of the family eventually merged and the dynasty died out after the Ottoman conquest of their Asian kingdoms. As Crusader princes in the Latin East, they soon had connections with the Hethumid rulers of the Kingdom of Cilicia, which they inherited through marriage in the mid-fourteenth century. In the late twelfth century, through marriage and inheritance, a cadet branch of the family came to control the Kingdoms of Jerusalem and of Cyprus, while in the early thirteenth century, the main branch succeeded in the Counties of La Marche and Angoulême. By the end of the eleventh century, they had risen to become the most prominent petty lords in the region from their castle at Lusignan. The Lusignan family originated in the Poitou near Lusignan in western France in the early tenth century.
Plate of the House of Lusignan-Cyprus, with coat of arms at the center.
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