Constantine V (Armenia)

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Constantine V of Armenia on his throne with the Hospitallers . "Les chevaliers de Saint-Jean-de-Jerusalem rétablissant la religion en Arménie en 1347" ("The Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem restore the true faith in Armenia in 1347."), painting by Henri Delaborde, 1844 .

Constantine V ( Armenian Կ ո ս տ անդին, translit. Gosdantin ; * April 17, 1313 , † December 21, 1362 ) was the second Latin king of Lesser Armenia from the Lusignan dynasty . He ruled from 1344 to 1362.

Constantine was the son of Marshal Baldwin von Neghir and Pertzerpert, a nephew of King Hethum I and Marie von Barbaron and a distant cousin of his predecessor, King Constantine IV.

After Constantine IV was killed during an uprising of the Armenian barons in 1344, he was succeeded by Constantine V, who immediately tried to get rid of all the other heir to the throne. The nephews of Constantine IV, Bohemond and Leon VI. , escaped to Cyprus before the murder commissioned by Constantine V could be carried out .

The Muslim Mamluks conquered the port of Ayas on May 23, 1347. In 1359 they took the cities of Adana and Tarsos and occupied the entire eastern part of the empire, the "flat Cilicia ". As a result, the kingdom was reduced to the western part, which is referred to as "rough Cilicia".

Constantine was the first husband of Marie of Armenia , the daughter of the Armenian regent of Lesser Armenia Oshin of Korykos and Johanna of Anjou, a daughter of the titular emperor of Constantinople , Philip I of Taranto .

Constantine V died of natural causes. He was succeeded by Constantine VI.

literature

  • Thomas SR Boase (Ed.): The Cilician Kingdom of Armenia. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh 1978, ISBN 0-7073-0145-9 .
  • Erich Trapp : Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit. Addenda and Corrigenda to Fascicles 1–8 (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies. 1). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1462-1 , No. 92566, 171 f.
  • Henriette Kühl: Leon V. of Lesser Armenia. A life between Orient and Occident under the sign of the crusade movement at the end of the 14th century (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences. 893). Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2000, ISBN 3-631-37180-2 , (At the same time: Cologne, University, dissertation, 2000, under the title: Leon V. von Kleinarmenien, his chronicler Jean Dardel and the Crusade movement at the end of the 14th century. ).

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predecessor Office successor
Constantine IV King of Lesser Armenia
1344–1362 		Constantine VI
personal data
SURNAME Constantine V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Constantine V of Armenia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Lesser Armenia
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1313
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1362