ABSTRACT

Every modern scholar who has had occasion to mention the death of King Henry I of Cyprus has dated it to the year 1253. Following Henry II's return to Cyprus in late August 1310 after the death of his usurping younger brother, Amaury of Tyre, it proved necessary to issue a remede to regularize legal matters transacted during the period of Amaury's rule. The necrologies and the king of Armenia's visit to the Mongols are there and are sufficient to prove that the texts are related, but the events in the Muslim world and the attacks on the environs of Acre and Sidon are omitted, leaving only the reference to Louis IX's fortification of Sidon. Events that are of no consequence to Cyprus are left out, and this is fully in keeping with the Amadi annalist's tendency to omit or compress references to the events in the Muslim world in these years; other material relating to the island is introduced.