Court the next day, Hugh claimed the throne. His spokesman laid out arguments for a male successor, either misunderstanding or delibarely misrepresenting earlier precedents. The vassals accepted Hugh's claim in preference to his aunts Alice and Helvis. Hugh was crowned king of Cyprus on 15 April at the Cathedral of Saint Sophia in Nicosia. From Henry he also inherited the claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the last piece of which had been lost to Muslims in 1291. Since the city of Tyre (in modern-day Lebanon), where the kings of Jerusalem were traditionally crowned, had also been conquered, Hugh received the crown of Jerusalem in Famagusta, deemed the best alternative by the vassals and the clergy. Hugh thus inaugurated a new custom among the Cypriot kings. One of Hugh's first acts upon his accession was having the High Court declare the forfeiture of the fiefs of all the vassals who had resisted his predecessor's restoration. Henry had kept them imprisoned since 1318, but Hugh decided to confiscate their land and release them. His goal may have been depriving his uncle Amalric's supporters of means to plot on behalf of Amalric's sons. In 1325 Hugh attempted to heal the rift between his family, the Lusignans, and the Ibelins, who had opposed Henry, through arranged marriages. Dynastic policy Hugh's first wife was Maria of Ibelin, daughter of Guy, the titular count of Jaffa. Hugh and Maria had a son, Guy. In 1318, after her death, Hugh obtained a papal dispensation to marry her distant kinswoman Alice of Ibelin, with whom he had at least eight children, of whom five reached adulthood. Having plenty of children enabled Hugh to forge dynastic links with Western European rulers, which his predecessors had little luck achieving. In January 1330 Hugh had Guy marry Maria, daughter of Duke Louis I of Bourbon. Louis belonged to a cadet branch of the French Capetian dynasty and was thoroughly involved in the French plans for a crusade to recover the Holy Land. Hugh hoped that the marriage would strengthen his chances of gaining control over the Holy Land, especially against the claims of the Capetian House of Anjou, who had disputed the Lusignans' claim to the throne of Jerusalem since the 1270s. The outbreak of France's Hundred Years' War with England in 1337 put an end to Louis's hopes to lead a crusade. Guy began taking part in state affairs