Leon IV (Armenia)

Leon IV or Leo IV , sometimes also referred to as Leon III , (* 1289 ; † 13 August 1307 ) was king of Lesser Armenia from 1303 or 1305 to 1307 . He was a son of Thoros III. and Margarete von Lusignan, daughter of Hugo III. , King of Cyprus .

Life

Leon married his cousin Agnes of Lusignan, daughter of Isabella of Armenia and Amalrich of Tire .

In 1303 or 1305 he became king after his uncle Hethum II entered the Franciscan order and withdrew from government affairs. Leon and Hethum led the Armenian army in 1305, which put an end to a Mamluk campaign near Baghras . On August 13, 1307 Leon and Hethum and their entourage of forty men were invited by the Emir Bilarghu of the Mongols to a banquet in Anazarva at which an alliance between their peoples was to be negotiated. The Mongols had now converted to Islam and the emir had the entire delegation murdered. He was succeeded by his uncle Oschin .

literature

• Mack Chahin: The Kingdom of Armenia. New Edition. Taylor and Francis, Hoboken 2013, ISBN 978-1-136-85243-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search, English).
• Gabriel Basmajian, Agop Jack Hacikyan, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian: The Hetumids. In: From the sixth to the eighteenth century. (= The Heritage of Armenian Literature. Volume 2.) Wayne State Univ. Press, Detroit 2002, ISBN 0-8143-3023-1 , pp. 194–195 ( limited preview in Google book search, English).

Web links

• Coins for King Leon's time: Cilician Armenian Coins for Sale: King Levon III (1301–1307 AD).
• Cilician Armenia 1080–1375 AD (PDF, history and coins, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1305–1307: LEO IV (Levon IV) ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on royaltombs.dk, accessed February 17, 2015. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Hethum II	King of Lesser Armenia 1303 / 05–1307	Oshin of Armenia