Phoebus of Lusignan
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Phoebus of Lusignan (died after July 1485 in Rome) (also called Febo or Febos in Portuguese) was a titular Marshal of Armenia and also titular lord of Sidon.
Biography
[edit]Phoebus was the illegitimate son of Peter of Lusignan, titular Count of Tripoli.[1] His father was the grandson of John of Lusignan and second wife Alice of Ibelin. Phoebus was legitimized by Pope Martin V in 1428, along with his cousin Guy, illegitimate son of King Janus of Cyprus.
Married to an unknown woman, they had:
- Hugh of Lusignan, Lord of Menico and Acaqui, was married firstly to Babin and secondly to Isabeau Placoton
- Eleanor, who married Soffredo Crispo (d. 1458), lord of Nisyros,[2] and then Vasco Gil Moniz
Phoebus accompanied his cousin Queen Charlotte, when she was deposed by her brother, into exile and died there.
References
[edit]- ^ Coureas 2025, p. 129.
- ^ Coureas 2025, p. 128-129.
Sources
[edit]- Coureas, Nicholas (2025). "The Hospitallers and the burgesses of Rhodes in the 14th and 15th centuries". In Vidal, Clara Almagro; Buttigieg, Emanuel (eds.). The Military Orders In a Wider World. Vol. VIII. Routledge. pp. 120–133.
Further reading
[edit]- Manuel João da Costa Felgueiras Gaio, "Nobiliário das Famílias de Portugal", Tomo Vigésimo Primeiro, Título de Monizes, § 17–19
- Various authors, "Armorial Lusitano", p. 370-2, Lisbon, 1961
- Dom Augusto Romano Sanches de Baena e Farinha de Almeida Portugal da Silva e Sousa, 1.° Visconde de Sanches de Baena, "Archivo Heraldico-Genealógico", Volume II, p. CXV, Lisbon, 1872
- Cristóvão Alão de Morais, "Pedatura Lusitana", Volume I (reformulated edition), p. 668-70
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