Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem
Sibylle of Jerusalem (c. 1160; † July 25, 1190 at Acre ) out of the house Château -Landon was the daughter of Amalric I, King of Jerusalem and Agnes of Edessa. She was the sister of King Baldwin IV, and was educated under the supervision of her great aunt Yvette in Bethany Convent.
Her father had 1171 Count Stephen I of Sancerre invited to the Holy Land to marry him with Sibyl, for unclear reasons the marriage failed project, however, and Stephan returned unmarried back to France.
Raymond III. , Count of Tripoli, the regent for Baldwin IV during his minority, arranged in 1177 for Sibylle marriage to William of Montferrat. William died a short time later, when Sibyl was pregnant with the future Baldwin V.
After William's death beat representatives of Flanders before that she should marry a gentry from the country in 1179 and wore her Baldwin of Ramla, the head of the powerful Ibelin, the marriage of. Baldwin IV led, however, that in 1180 she married Guy of Lusignan, who had come into the country recently. As a result, Baldwin lost so much of the support of the old families that he was trying to dissolve the marriage again. Guido resisted, because he was already on the way to get help with Sibylles control of the kingdom. In the attempt to overcome Guido's influence, took Raymond III. IV 1183 after the resignation of the disabled through his leprosy Baldwin the regency for the minor Baldwin V
Baldwin V died in 1186, ten years old. Sibylle, Guido and Raynald of Chatillon to tear the scepter before Raimund could have clarified the question of succession through a consultation succeeded. Many nobles resisted this attack, and demanded at the coronation of Sibylle's divorce from Guido. She agreed, on the condition that she should choose a new husband. Then she married Guido for the second time, to the displeasure of the nobility, a possibility not considered. Sibylle was Queen, Guido ruled from their right as king.
During the Battle of Hattin on July 4, 1187 the army of the kingdom was destroyed and Guido was taken prisoner, so that Sibylle the defense of Jerusalem in Saladin's siege had to conduct itself in September. The city capitulated on October 2, Sibylle received free passage to Tripoli. In the camp of her husband, at the siege of Acre, she and her daughter died on July 25, 1190 in an epidemic. Da Guido was just her Prince Consort, the crown went nominally to her sister Isabella and about 1192 also in their second husband Conrad of Montferrat. Through the mediation of King Richard of England Guido left the two on April 16, 1192 the Crown.