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'Gosdantin II'^[1] (died 1344), or 'Guy de Lusignan', was the first King of Armenian Cilicia of the Lusignan dynasty, ruling from 1342 until his death.
He was the son of Isabella, daughter of the Leo III of Armenia, and Amalric, an illegitimate son of Hugh III of Cyprus. When his cousin Leo V, the last Hethumid monarch of Cilicia, was murdered by the barons, the crown was offered to his younger brother John, who urged Guy to accept it. Guy was reluctant — his mother and two of his brothers had been murdered by the Armenian regent Oshin of Corycos — but he eventually accepted and took the name Constantine.
Guy was killed in an uprising in 1344 and was succeeded by a distant cousin, Constantine V. He had married twice, and left two children by his second wife, Theodora Syrgianes. One of them, Isabella (or Zampea), married Manuel Kantakouzenos, Despot of Morea.

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★ The Cilician Kingdom of Armenia, , T. S. R., Boase, Scottish Academic Press, 1978, ISBN 0-7073-0145-9

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1. He is sometimes numbered as King Constantine .