Thoros III.

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Thoros III. ( Armenian Թորոս Երրորդ; * 1271 ; † July 23, 1298 in Sis) was King of Lesser Armenia from 1293 to 1295 .

Thoros was a son of Leon III. and Keran (Kir Anna), daughter of Prince Hethum of Lambron . He belonged to the Hethumid dynasty . In 1293 his brother Hethum II abdicated in his favor and left Thoros to rule. In 1295 Thoros asked Hethum to take power again in order to renew the alliance with the Mongolian Empire of the Ilkhan . Thoros and Hethum traveled to Constantinople in 1296 to meet their sister Rita of Armenia with Michael IX. Palaiologos, the co-emperor of Andronikos II . On her return she had her brother Sempad , who had seized power in the kingdom in her absence, arrested and imprisoned. On Sempad's orders, Oschin, Marshal of Armenia, strangled Thoros on July 23, 1298 in the Partzerpert fortress .

Thoros had been married twice. His first wedding to Margaret of Lusignan , daughter of King Hugos III. of Cyprus took place on January 9, 1288. His son from this marriage was King Leon IV. He concluded his second marriage with a Mongolian princess, a relative of Il-Khan Ghazan .

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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predecessor Office successor
Hethum II King of Lesser Armenia
1293–1295 		Hethum II
personal data
SURNAME Thoros III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toros III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Lesser Armenia
DATE OF BIRTH 1271
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1298
Place of death Partzerpert