Marriage
Soon after 28 June 1342 he married Eschive de Montfort (d. before 1350), only daughter and heiress of Honfroy de Montfort (1305 – 24 June 1326), Constable of Cyprus and Titular Lord of Toron, and his wife, whose name is unknown. Eschiva died before 1350 while Peter was still a teenager and the marriage was childless.
In 1353 he remarried Eleanor of Aragon-Gandia (1333 – 26 December 1416 in Barcelona and buried there), daughter of Pedro, Infante of Aragon, Conde de Ribagorza, Ampurias y Prades, Seneschal of Catalonia, and Jeanne de Foix (died before November 1358), herself the daughter of Gaston I, Count of Foix and Jeanne of Artois.
Eleanor was the sister of Infante Don Alfonso, Duke of Gandia, pretender to the Aragonese crown and was crowned Queen Consort of Cyprus on 24 November 1358 and Titular Queen of Jerusalem 5 April 1360, Co-Regent of Cyprus in January, 1369,
He had three children from his second marriage to Eleanor:
- Peter II of Lusignan (c. 1357–1382), succeeded him as King of Cyprus and Jerusalem
- Margaret or Mary of Lusignan (ca. 1360 – ca. 1397), once engaged to Carlo Visconti and married in 1385 to her cousin Jacques de Lusignan (d. 1395/1397), Titular Count of Tripoli, grandson of John of Lusignan and wife Alix d'Ibelin, and had issue
- Eschiva of Lusignan (d. before 1369), died young
As Peter II of Cyprus remained heirless, the crown of Cyprus was passed to his brother James I of Cyprus.
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