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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 4, 29 September 1933, Page 2

PERSISTENT ROYAL EXILES. Recently there died in utter poverty, nt Milan, a member of the little-known House of Lusignnn. at the a_ge of 77. For centuries descendants of tins royal family hare persistently, in exile, pressed their claims for recognition. The last ruling monarch of the line, who was King of Jerusalem, Armenia arid Cyprus, was deposed and sent as a prisoner to Paris, where he died in 1393. For hundreds of years since his descendants have again and again requested recognition of their right to the lost kingdom. As late ns 1834 Arclribshop Khorinn, who wnsl chosen by the Armenians to represent them at the Congress of Berlin, assorted Iris direct descent from the last reigning Lusfgnan. and won considerable support in Great Britain for his modest request that the Island of Cynrns should be handed over to him as the first step toward the restorat'on of the former triple kingdom. Ono of his brothers married a noted Parisian beauty, who afterwards styled herself Princess Marie do Lusignnn of Cyprus. Jerusalem and Armenia.

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