Henry II of Champagne

Henry II of Champagne (1166–1197), son of Count Henry I and Marie of France, inherited Champagne in 1181. He joined the Third Crusade in 1190 at the siege of Acre, which fell in 1191. After Conrad of Montferrat was assassinated days after being elected king in April 1192, the barons chose Henry, and he married Conrad's widow, Queen Isabella I, ruling the restored kingdom from its coastal strip without ever being crowned.

He once imprisoned Aimery of Lusignan over a Pisan plot, but reconciled with him in 1197. That September he fell to his death from a palace window at Acre; Aimery married Isabella and succeeded him.