Before the news of the death of Janus had gone out, his only son, John, was acknowledged as his successor by all the lords; the proclamation followed immediately. Born in May 1414, John had just entered on his eighteenth year; it was therefore necessary to appoint a Regent. The choice fell upon Sir Peter de Lusignan, Count of Tripoli, second cousin of John, but by many years his elder; he was at the same time made Constable of the Kingdom. Sir Carceran Suarez, Admiral of Cyprus, Sir James de Cafran, Marshal of Cyprus, Sir James de Flory, Auditor, Sir James Gurri, a judge, and others were either confirmed in or appointed to offices, and formed with the Regent a Council of forty for the King's guidance. To them was added Sir Badin de Nores, Marshal of Jerusalem, when he returned from his mission to Poland. He came to wield great influence with the King; in 1444 the Venetian Senate told its ambassador to get into touch with him; it was informed that he was ‘deputed to be a governor of the King, with whom, if we may use the phrase, he is all powerful’. From Tafur, however, who was in Cyprus in 1436 and 1437, we learn that the King's most intimate adviser, with the Cardinal, was his aunt Agnes, by whose counsels the Kingdom was mostly governed.