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Constantine IV of Armenia (died 1344) was the first Latin king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1342 to 1344. Born Guy of Lusignan (not to be confused with the 12th century King-Consort of Jerusalem of the same name), he took the name Constantine upon his accession in 1342. He was the son of Isabelle (or Zabel), Princess of Armenia (daughter of Leo III of Armenia) and Amalric de Lusignan. Guy came to the throne on the death of his cousin Leo V of Armenia. The crown had first been offered to his younger bro ... Including:

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Constantine VI of Armenia (died 1373) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1362 to 1373. He was the son of Hethum of Neghir, a nephew of Hethum I of Armenia. Constantine came to the throne on the death of his cousin Constantine V of Armenia. Constantine was the second husband of Marie of Armenia, daughter of Oshin of Corycos and Jeanne of Anjou. (Constantine V had been her first husband.) Constantine formed an alliance with Peter I of Cyprus, offering him the port and castle of Corycus. On Peter's death in 1369, Co ... Including:

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1307 - Events. July - The Knights Hospitaller begin their conquest of Rhodes. September 5 - Pope Clement V confirms the Knights Hospitaller possession of Rhodes, although only Feracle had fallen to their attacks. October 13 - All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy. November 18 - (Legendary) - William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head. Edward II becomes King of England.Including:

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1341 - Events. The Queen's College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded. Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor. Beginning of the Breton War of Succession over the control of the Duchy of Brittany Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expels her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. She subsequently marries Louis of Bavaria without having been divorced, which resu ... Including:

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1150 - Events. Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges City of Airdrie, Scotland founded King Sverker I of Sweden is deposed and succeeded by Eric IX of Sweden. Albrecht the Bear inhabits Brandenburg Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences University of Paris, now known as the Sorbonne, founded During Crusades, city of Ashkelon fortified with 53 towers by Fatimid rulers Earl of Bedford created Cu ... Including:

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In 1190 Bohemund met the remnants of the German contingent arriving on the Third Crusade; Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, had died on the way and some of his remains were buried in Antioch. He otherwise played little role in the crusade, preferring to remain neutral to avoid provoking Saladin. In 1194 Bohemund was captured by Leo II of Armenia. Leo had seized the castle of Bagras, on the northern border of Antioch, which had been captured by Saladin in 1189. Bohemund and the Knights Templar, its original owners, demanded its return. Leo lur ...

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The founder of the sect was Constantine-Silvanus, who hailed from Mananalis, a dualistic community near Samosata, and was a strong Christian. He studied the Gospels and Epistles, combined dualistic and Christian doctrines, and, upon the basis of the former, vigorously opposed the formalism of the church. Regarding himself as called upon to restore the pure Christianity of Paul, he adopted the name Silvanus, one of Paul's disciples, and about the year 656 founded his first congregation at Kibossa in Armenia. Twenty-seven years later he was st ...

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In 1164, Bohemund and Raymond III of Tripoli marched out to relieve Harim, under siege from Nur ad-Din, but when Nur ad-Din retreated Bohemund led a charge against him. The ensuing battle was a disaster and both Bohemund and Raymond were taken prisoner. King Amalric I of Jerusalem hastened back from his invasion of Egypt to take control of the regency of Antioch; Bohemund was freed, for a large ransom, in 1165 with the intervention of Amalric and Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus, his nominal overlord; Manuel was also his brother-in-law, a ...

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During the time of the Crusades the area was controlled by the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. The Seljuk invasion of Armenia was followed by an exodus of Armenians southwards, and in 1080, Rhupen, a relative of the last king of Ani, founded in the heart of the Cilician Taurus a small principality, which gradually expanded into the kingdom of Lesser Armenia or Armenia Minor. This Christian kingdom situated in the midst of Moslem states, hostile to the Byzantines, giving valuable support to the crusaders, and trading with the great commercial ci ...

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The name of Constantinople is an honorific eponym referencing its founder, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Constantine established the Greek city of Byzantium as the second capital of the Roman Empire on May 11, AD 330, naming the city Nova Roma (New Rome). That particular name, however, enjoyed little common use, and it was as the 'City of Constantine' (Constantinopolis) that it ...

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