Constantine VI (Armenia)

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Constantine VI ( Armenian Կոստանդին; † 1373 ) was king of Lesser Armenia from 1362 to 1373 . He was a son of Hethum of Neghir, a nephew of Hethum II. Constantine came to the throne after the death of his cousin Constantine V. He married his widow, Marie of Armenia, a daughter of Oshin of Korykos . Constantine VI belonged to the Lusignan dynasty .

Constantine formed an alliance with Peter I , the king of Cyprus against the Karamanids, and gave him the port and fortress of Korykos in return for the military assistance. After the death of Peter in 1369, tried Konstantin a contract with al-Ashraf Shaban , the Mamluk - Sultan of Egypt to close. The Armenian barons were dissatisfied with his policy, they feared the annexation of Little Armenia by the Sultan. In 1373 Constantine was murdered. He was succeeded by his distant cousin Leon VI. , the last king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia to exercise his reign in Cilicia.

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 V. King of Lesser Armenia
1362–1373 		Leon VI
personal data
SURNAME Constantine VI
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Constantine VI of Armenia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Lesser Armenia
DATE OF BIRTH before 1362
DATE OF DEATH 1373