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Alice de la Roche
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “wife of john ii of ibelin”. Today it says “latin noblewoman who ruled the lordship of beirut in the kingdom of jerusalem as regent and was a claimant to t”.
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Alice de la Roche, Lady of Beirut , Regent of Beirut , (died 1282 ), was the wife of John II of Ibelin , Lord of Beirut , in the Kingdom of Jerusalem . She was a daughter of Guy I, Lord of Athens . Alice is sometimes referred to as Alice of Athens .1 Alice was Regent of Beirut for her daughter Queen Isabella of Cyprus, during the latter's absence in Cyprus .2
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wife of john ii of ibelin
Now
latin noblewoman who ruled the lordship of beirut in the kingdom of jerusalem as regent and was a claimant to t
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