Oshin of Armenia

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Oshin of Armenia ( Armenian Օշին; * 1282 ; † July 20, 1320 ) was king of Lesser Armenia from 1307 to 1320 .

Oschin was a son of Leon III. and Keran (Kir Anna), daughter of Prince Hethum of Lambron. He belonged to the Hethumid dynasty .

Oshin of Armenia came to power in Anazarba after the murder of his nephew, King Leon IV and his brother Hethum II in August 1307 by the Mongolian emir Bilarghu . He began his rule with the formation of an army and the expulsion of the Mongols. Oschin favored a union of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Roman Catholic Church . This aroused the displeasure of the population and the Armenian barons. In 1309 he let his wife's uncle, Oschin, the Marshal of Armenia, because of the murder of Thoros III. execute.

His sister Isabella of Armenia married Amalrich of Tire . When Amalrich took power in Cyprus from Henry II in 1310 , he was held under arrest by Oshin in Cilician Armenia. After Amalrich's assassination in the same year, Henry II returned to Cyprus.

Oschin was married three times; first with Isabella of Korykos , with whom he had a son, Leon V. had. She died in 1310. He then had a short marriage with Isabella von Lusignan , daughter of King Hugo III. of Cyprus . Oschin separated from her before 1316. In February 1316, he married Johanna von Anjou, a daughter of the titular emperor of Constantinople , Philip I of Tarentin Tarsus , in his third marriage .

It is likely that King Oshin of Oshin was poisoned by Korykos , his cousin and brother-in-law. After Oschin's death on July 20, 1320, his eleven-year-old son Leon V succeeded him to the throne.

literature

  • Thomas SR Boase (Ed.): The Cilician Kingdom of Armenia. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh 1978, ISBN 0-7073-0145-9 .
  • René Grousset : L'Empire du Levant: Histoire de la Question d'Orient. Nouvelle édition revue. Payton, Paris 1949, p. 401.
  • Angus Donal Stewart: The Armenian Kingdom and the Mamluks. War and diplomacy during the reigns of Het'um II (1289-1307) (= The Medieval Mediterranean. 34). Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden et al. 2001, ISBN 90-04-12292-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mutafian: Le Royaume de Arménien Cilicie. XIIe - XIVe siècle. CNRS Editions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-271-05105-3 , p. 73.
  2. ↑ Recueil des Historiens des Croisades. Documents arméniens. Volume 1. Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1869, p. 664 .
predecessor Office successor
Leon IV King of Lesser Armenia
1307–1320 		Leon V.
personal data
SURNAME Oshin of Armenia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oshin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Lesser Armenia
DATE OF BIRTH 1282
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1320