The Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia During the Crusades: The Integration of Cilician Armenians with the Latins, 1080-1393

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ISBN: 9780700714186 | 0700714189
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/26/2000

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This unique study bridges the history of the Crusades with the history of Armenian nationalism and Christianity, providing a history of the Crusades merged with a history of the Armenian Christians, who were pivotal in the founding of Crusader principalities and of the Anatolian kingdom of Cilicia.

List of illustrations & tables

(2)

Abbreviations

(6)

Prologue

(6)

Introduction

(6)

Ancient and medieval roots

(24)

Early Mesopotamia

The kingdom of Urartu

Arab rule of Armenia

The Bagratids: last kings of the ancient land

Cilicia through the ages

Medieval Armenian rulers of Cilicia

The Roupenian dynasty

Baron Roupen I (1080-95)

Baron Constantine I (1095-99)

The heritage of the new kingdom

(28)

The kingdom and its kings (1199-1289)

The Hetumian dynasty

Hetum I (1226-69)

Hayton's chronicle

Levon II (1270-89)

Ordeals of a royal house (1289-1303)

Hetum II (1289-1303) and Toros III (1293-95)

Hayton (Hetum) of Korikos: holy or unholy alliances?

Levon III (1303-07)

Oshin I (1308-20) and Levon IV (1320-41)

The first Latin encounters

(32)

The clarion call to arms (1074)

A Byzantine request

The road to heaven

The American hierarchy

The First Crusade (1096-99)

The great challenges

The Armenian impact

Byzantium intervenes

The new inheritance

113

(18)

Baron Toros I (1099-1129)

Baron Levon I (1129-37)

The Second Crusade (1145-49)

Toros II `The Great' (1145-69)

Birth of the kingdom

Baron Levon II `King Levon I' (1199-1219)

Cyprus---A stepping stone

131

(26)

The Armenians in Cyprus

Armenochori --- Limassol

Sourp Asdvadzadzin [Blessed Virgin Mary] --- Nicosia

The Monastery of Sourp Asdvadzadzin --- Famagusta

The Monastery of Sourp Magar --- Kythrea

Latin Cyprus

The Third Crusade (1189-92)

The Lusignans of Cyprus (1194-1284)

Amaury (1194-1205)

Hugh I (1210-18)

Henry I (1218-53)

Role of the Ibelins in the Cypriot monarchy

Hugh III of Cyprus (1267-84)

The last Latin connections

The fading dream

157

(14)

The seeds of Lusignan rule in Cilicia

Guy de Lusignan, Constantine II (1342-44)

Constantine III (1344-63)

The coming of Levon V (1365-75)

The writing on the wall

Levon the ambassador

Intrigues in Cyprus

End of a kingdom

171

(36)

Demise of the kingdom: What went wrong?

Origins of the faith

The closing decades of the fourth century

The Council of Chalcedon --- 451 AD

Roots of discontent

Conflict between East and West

The Schism of 1054

Rome and the Armenians

Armenian debacles with Byzantium

The exodus

The Council of Florence

Return to Etchmiadzin

Plates

207

(20)

Chronologies

227

(12)

Notes

239

(4)

Bibliography

243

(6)

Index

249

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The Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia During the Crusades: The Integration of Cilician Armenians with the Latins, 1080-1393

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