John II of Cyprus

Born 16 May 1418 in Nicosia, John was the son of king Janus of Cyprus and Charlotte of Bourbon.

[1] In May, sometime between 1435 and 1440, he married Amadea Palaiologina of Monferrato, daughter of John Jacob Palaiologos, Marquess of Montferrat.

His second wife, a distant relative of his first, was Helena Palaiologina,[2] only child and daughter of Theodore II Palaiologos, Despot of the Morea, and his wife Cleofa Malatesta By his second marriage he had: John died in Nicosia on 28 July 1458 and his daughter Charlotte succeeded to the throne.

During his rule, Corycus, the only Cypriot stronghold in mainland Anatolia, was lost to the Karamanids in 1448.

James did not prove ideal archbishop material, and was stripped of his title after murdering the royal chamberlain.