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Alice de Champagne of Cyprus (1196-1246) was the daughter of Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem and Henry II of Champagne.

She married twice. Her first husband was Hugh I of Cyprus. The couple had three children:

  1. Maria, who married Walter of Brienne.
  2. Henry I, who became King of Cyprus on his father's death in 1218. Alice acted as regent.
  3. Isabella, who married Henry of Antioch , and who was the mother of Hugh III of Cyprus

In 1223 Alice married Bohemond V of Antioch.

From 1243 to 1246 she served as regent of Jerusalem for Conrad of Hohenstaufen, her half-sister Maria's grandson.

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