Oshin of Korykos
Oshin of Korykos († February 26, 1329 in Sis ) was lord of Korykos and from 1320 to 1329 ruler of the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia for the minor king Leon V.
Life
He was the son of the historian Hethum of Korykos and his wife Isabella of Ibelin.
When King Oshin of Armenia died in 1320, Oshin was appointed by Korykos as regent for his eleven-year-old nephew King Leon V. It was probably he who had previously poisoned King Oshin. And he was probably also responsible for the deaths of Princess Isabella of Armenia, the sister of King Oshin and two of her sons, whom he had eliminated in order to consolidate his own power. To further consolidate his power, he married his daughter Alix in 1321 to the now twelve-year-old King Leon V.
During his reign, the kingdom was threatened by the Egyptian Mamluks and the Mongolian Ilkhan Empire .
When Leon V came of age and took over the government of the kingdom himself, he had Oshin of Korykos killed on February 26, 1329 in Sis, as did his wife, Oschin's daughter Alix. Oschin's head was sent to the Mongolian Ilkhan Abu Sa'id .
Marriages and offspring
He was married twice. In his first marriage around 1308 he married Margarethe von Ibelin, the daughter of Balian von Ibelin (* 1240; † 1302), Seneschal of Cyprus, and his wife Alix von Lampron. With her he had a daughter, Alix, whom he married to King Leon V, and a son, Hethum, who died young in 1325. His marriage to Margarethe was annulled in 1311.
Around 1320 he married Johanna von Anjou, the widow of King Oschin and daughter of Philip I , Prince of Taranto and Albania, as well as the Latin titular emperor of Constantinople. Johanna took the first name Eirene when she got married. Their daughter, Maria, was successively with two kings of Lesser Armenia, Constantine V and Constantine VI. married.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Cf. Claude Mutafian: Le Royaume Armenien de Cilicie. Editions CNRS, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-271-05105-3 , p. 80
- ↑ See Oshin of Korikos at fmg.ac
literature
- Thomas S. Boase: 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 . Payot, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-228-88506-1 , p. 401 (reprint of the Paris 1949 edition).
Web links
- The Genealogy of the Kings and Queens of Armenia-Cilicia (English)
- Oshin of Korikos at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (fmg.ac) (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oshin of Korykos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Regent of Lesser Armenia, Lord of Korykos |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1329 |
| Place of death | Sis |