Hugh II of Cyprus

Hugh II (* 1252, † November 1267 ) was King of Cyprus and Regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

1253, at the age of a few months, he succeeded his father Henry I as King of Cyprus, under the regency of his mother Plaisance of Antioch.

Although he had no legal claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which was ruled at that time nominally of Conradin of Hohenstaufen, who was also a child and, furthermore, in Europe, he and his mother in 1258 from Plaisances brother Bohemond VI. brought to Acre and made ​​the " Lord from Jerusalem " ie, the regent.

As Plaisance died in 1261, the regency passed into Cyprus on his cousin Hugo, during the reign of the Kingdom of Jerusalem whose mother Isabella of Cyprus took over. Hugh II died in November 1267 aged 14 and was buried in the Dominican church in Nicosia. He was married to Isabella of Ibelin, Lady of Beirut. The marriage was never consummated and abolished in 1265 by Pope Clement IV. He was succeeded by his cousin Hugo Hugo III. of Cyprus.

Thomas Aquinas eventually dedicated his unfinished work De regimine principum ( "On the rule of the Prince " ), which was published but only when both were already dead.