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Constantine, Prince of Lusignan Mikail Alexander Peter, Prince de Lusignan (born 6th May 1981, St. Petersburgh) Constantine Alexandrovich Justinian Janus, Prince of Lusignan (born 5 October 1976, Altai, Russia) is the current head of the Royal House of Lusignan and heir to the thrones of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Lesser Armenia (Cilicia). He is the descendant and male heir of Prince Louis de Lusignan who was recognised by Tsar Nicholas I of Russia on 1 May 1830 as Royal Prince of Lusignan of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Cilicia, “direct descendant of the kings of Cyprus”.

Background

The Lusignans were originally powerful medieval feudal lords of vast swathes of territory in the Limousin and Poitou regions of France. Guy de Lusignan and several of his kinsmen went off to fight in the crusades in the 11th century and eventually came to hold the thrones of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Cyprus and the southern Turkish littoral known as the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia or Cilcia. The family continued to hold the kingship of Cyprus until 1489 when it was surrendered to the Venetians. Though they lost the Kingdom of Jerusalem de facto in 1291 and Cilicia was lost in 1375, they continued to be crowned as kings of these two countries at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Famagusta simultaneously when they were crowned as kings of Cyprus.

Prince Constantine descends from the Greek line of heirs of the last Lusignan kings of Cyprus. After 1489, this main line of the family in which the titular rights to all three kingdoms are vested, established itself in Egypt, Greece and Constantinople and then in Russia where they received imperial recognition. Prince Constantine is the historic heir to all three Lusignan kingdoms in the Levant and of one branch of the French Lusignans.

He holds the secondary titles of Prince of Galilee and Count of Bethlehem. He is Sovereign of the Royal Order of the Sword of Cyprus, the Order of St. Katherine of Sinai, the Royal Order of St. Blaise and the Royal Order of Melusine. After 1489, the Order of the Sword of Cyprus was appropriated by the Venetian Doges, but was returned to the sovereignty of the Lusignan family in the 1880’s.

Education

Prince Constantine studied medicine at Altai State University and pursued a career in paediatrics and neonatology. He has interests in various private clinics in Russia, Kazakhstan and the Baltic countries.

Titles and Styles:

(1976 – 1992) His Highness, Constantine, Prince of Galilee

(1992 - ) His Royal Highness, Prince Constantine de Lusignan of Cyprus, Jerusalem & Lesser Armenia (Cilicia)

Form of Address:

Spoken: “Your Royal Highness”

“Sir”

Orders:

Sovereign & Grand Master, Royal Order of the Sword of Cyprus

Sovereign & Grand Master, Order of St. Katherine of Sinai

Sovereign & Grand Master, Royal Order of St. Blaise

Sovereign & Grand Master, Order of Melusine

Knight Grand Cross Orthodox Order of the Holy Sepulchre

Knight Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem

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Ancestry