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From 1184 to 1191 Cyprus was ruled by Isaak Comnenus, the former Byzantine governor of Cyprus and pretender to the Byzantine throne, until he was overthrown and captured by Richard I of England while he was on his way towards the Holy Land to fight the Third Crusade.

Nomenclature
It is commonly and incorrectly stated that Isaak Comeneus declared himself the emperor of Cyprus when in reality he had declared himself the Emperor of the Orient.

Arrival of Richard I
After seven years of his rule it was said that "the island groaned beneath this scourge of fate, and he reduced the Cypriots to suck a state of dispair that all were ready to welcome anything which afforded a means of escape from such tyranny."