The Crusader kingdom founded by Guy of Lusignan after Richard I's 1191 conquest of Cyprus, ruling the island as an independent Latin Christian state for three centuries.
Declined into a weak, tributary rump under the later Lusignans; the last queen, Catherine Cornaro, was forced to cede the island to Venice in 1489.
The standard scholarly political history of the Lusignan kingdom through its 13th-century apogee, directly covering this window.