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Topic: Rubenid


  
  Aghtamar - Church of the Holy Cross
One of Gagik II's lieutenants, a certain Ruben, established himself (c.1080) at Bardzrberd in the Taurus Mountains and became the founder of the Rubenid dynasty of barons and kings who ruled Cilicia until 1226.
Another noble named Oshin went to Lambron and was the ancestor of the Hetumid dynasty, which succeeded the Rubenids and ruled until 1342.
The barons Constantine I (1092-1100), Thoros I (1100-29), and Levon I (1129-39) enlarged their domains at the expense of the Byzantines, and by 1132 Vahka, Sis, Anazarbus, Mamistra, Adana, and Tarsus were under Rubenid rule.
www.ling.umd.edu /~ninaka/grace/aghtamar/main/pages/armhistory10.htm   (227 words)

  
 Coat of arms of Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This dynasty ruled from the 1st century AD to 428 AD.
In the lower right is the emblem of the Rubenid dynasty.
This dynasty reigned in Lesser Armenia (also known as Cilicia), a state that expanded and prospered during the 12th and 13th centuries, until the Mamelukes and Turks eventually conquered it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Armenia   (335 words)

  
 Armenia
The city was sacked and looted with the coming of the Turco-Mongol invasions from Central Asia led by the nomadic chieftain Alp-Arslan in the XIth century.
Cilician Armenia or Little Armenia as it was known to Western historians was to the west of historic Greater Armenia on the beautiful shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
Cilician Armenia under the gifted dynasties of the Rubenids and Hetumids, with prominent representatives such as Leon the Magnificent and Hetum I became a major commercial and cultural center with its beautiful cities such as the capital city of Sis and renowned city-ports such as Ayas.
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 Aerie of the Spirit's Breath Saga: Geography: Anatolia
A principality (1073 - 1099) and subsequently a kingdom (1099-1375) under the Armenian Rubenid and Het'umid, and the Latin Lusignan dynasties.
By the end of the 12th century the Rubenids had established a kingdom that encompassed at its peak the coastal plain of Cilicia as well as the surrounding mountains.
The Third Crusade enabled the Rubenid prince Leo II to be officially crowned king as Leo I. Officially Byzantium sanctioned this action, however Armenian Cilicia turned thereafter increasingly towards the Latins.
www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Labyrinth/2398/bginfo/geo/anatolia.html   (10217 words)

  
 CATO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The destruction of the Bagratid Kingdom was completed by raids of new invaders, Seljuk Turks from Central Asia.
This invasion compelled a large number of Armenians to move south, toward the Taurus Mountains close to the Mediterranean Sea, where in 1080 they founded, under the leadership of Ruben (Rubenid dynasty), the Kingdom of Cilicia or Lesser Armenia.
For nearly 300 years, the Cilician Kingdom of Armenia prospered, but in 1375 it fell to the Mamelukes of Egypt.
www.armenia.ca.gov /en/content/61   (861 words)

  
 Lampron Genealogy and History
The Rubenids ruled first as barons and then, from 1199 to 1226, as kings of Cilicia.
Thereafter the family of *Oshin, another Armenian noble, ruled as the Hethumid dynasty until 1342.
Lord of Lampron, Oshin I of Armenia, was the ancestor of the Hetumid dynasty, which succeeded the Rubenid Dynasty in Armenia in 1226 and ruled until 1342.
www.lampron.info /lampron.htm   (1302 words)

  
 Armenians and Crusaders - HyeForum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Rubenid family allies and marries Franks and fights the Turks and Byzantines together.
Hromkla is given to the Armenian catholicos by Beatrice Princess Of Lorraine.
King Levon I's daughter Isabelle is forced to marry Hetoum I (or Hetum I) which joined the Rubenid and Hetumian families.
www.hyeforum.com /index.php?s=48e1af5f64615cc5e69565fd40e13bac&showtopic=4653   (12838 words)

  
 History of Cilicia
The history of the founding of the Rubenids, the rivals of the Het’umids, is not so easily confirmed in our extant sources.
At Constantine’s death (between 1100 and 1102) his son, T’oros I, assumed the leadership of the Rubenid clan and framed a policy for expansion that was eventually to lead to the unification of Armenian Cilicia under one king.
Despite his many years of association with the Het`umids at Paperõn, he was not successful in preventing them from periodically raiding the Rubenid settlements in the plain.
www.hadjin.com /HISTORY_OF_CILICIA.htm   (3755 words)

  
 MEDICINE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ARMENIA - Review - Medindex - Armenia, Yerevan - Health care, doctors, armenian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
After the fall of the Bagratunis (in 1045) the Rubenid Cilician state became one of the political and cultural centres in medieval Armenia.
The detailed clinical data in Grigoris' book is evidence of the fact that in Cilician Armenia, hospitals were developing, where physicians could follow the course of the disease directly at the patient's bedside and not be satisfied with only information gathered from books.
As for a etiology, Grigoris was Heratsi's follower applying the theory of "mouldiness" not only to "mould fevers" but also to wasting (consumptive) fevers, extending it over various diseases of the lungs, heart, liver and stomach.
medindex.am /medindex/review.php?sid=421&recat=   (9107 words)

  
 IV/2 Cilician Armenian (1071-1375 AD)
Following the disasterous Byzantine defeat at Manzikert in 1071 AD, the Seljuks overran the Armenian Kingdom of Ani, killing King Kakig II, causing contingents of Armenian nobility lead by Prince Rouben to seek refuge in Cilicia.
Rouben fought the local dukes to unify Cilicia and established his principality (the Rubenid Dynasty) in 1080 AD with the sufferance of the Byzantines.
Under pressure from the Seljuk Emirate of Rum, the Armenians gave support in 1098 AD to the Crusaders of the 1st Crusade, who passed through Cilicia on route to Antioch and Jerusalem.
www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/IV2.html   (926 words)

  
 Armenia: history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
At the end of the 11th century, the Rubenid dynasty founded a new Armenian state in Cilicia, which lasted 300 years.
Cilicia had close ties to the western European states; Armenian troops took part in the Crusades, and intermarriage with other ruling dynasties introduced the Rubenids to the circle of European rulers.
In 1375, Armenian Cilicia fell to the Mamelukes of Egypt, who retained Cilician science, culture and literature.
gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=202   (2142 words)

  
 Fast Facts about Armenia and the Armenians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Chess champion Garry Kasparov, gambling mogul and part-Chrysler owner Kirk Kerkorian, retired pathologist Jack Kevorkian, singer Charles Aznavour, and Cher are all Armenians.
The best man at Richard the Lionhearted's wedding on Cyprus during the Third Crusade was Armenian (Levon/Leon Rubenid).
Armenian was the eleventh language to be printed on the moveable type press (in 1511 or 1512, following Latin, German, Greek, Czech, Hebrew, French, Arabic, Dutch, English, and Italian).
www.umd.umich.edu /dept/armenian/fastfact.html   (255 words)

  
 danrogers - pafg1611 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Prince Stephen II of Armenia [Parents] was born about 1130.
Prince Leo I Rubenid of Armenia [Parents] was born about 1095.
She married Prince Leo I Rubenid of Armenia.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~dantrogers/pafg1611.htm   (119 words)

  
 FACT SHEET: ARMENIA
Many Armenians, fleeing the Turkish Seljuk invasion of Anatolia after 1073, also fled to Cilicia.
Thus a new Armenian state was established in Cilicia by the Rubenid dynasty which survived until 1375.
The Armenians of Cilicia were close allies of the Crusaders who came to the Middle East to free the Holy Land.
www.umd.umich.edu /dept/armenian/facts/armenia.html   (1022 words)

  
 Jere's Ars Magica Saga: Turks
The Seljuks' base was the town of Konya (Ikonion), which was to remain their capital for two centuries and which they beautified and turned into a center of art and learning.
Their power was at this time essentially an inland one, on the Anatolian plateau, for the crusader states of Antioch and Edessa and the Rubenid kingdom of Cilicia Armenia, which emerged in the later twelfth century, cut them off to the south, and on the north and west they faced the Byzantines and the Danishmendids.
The middle decades of the twelfth century saw the Seljuks, plagued by the Danishmendids until the later fell into dissension.
www.egyptologie.be /timesquare_1998_Turks_Genest.htm   (1675 words)

  
 Coat Of Arms Of Armenia info here at en.32of100d.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This decree ruled from the 1st century AD to 428 AD.
In the nether stand up is the emblem of the Rubenid dynasty.
This decree reigned in Lesser Armenia (also as Cilicia), a status that bulked up und prospered throughout the 12th und 13th centuries, the Mamelukes und Turks alone sidereal day conquered it.
en.32of100d.info /Coat_of_arms_of_Armenia   (663 words)

  
 Medieval Aarmenia and Cilicia Part II: 1096 - 1230
Cilicia (Lesser Armenia) became an ally of the Crusaders.
In their turn, the Crusaders crowned Leo the 2nd King of Armenia in 1198 thus starting the Rubenid dynasty in Cilicia.
After the first Crusade Cilicia significantly expanded to the South-West doubling the size of the new Armenian Kingdom.
www.atlas-of-conflicts.com /areas/armenia-and-karabakh/medieval-armenia-2.php?PHPSESSID=69d3e5c01494560e464f6d41b18a6bc2   (392 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Romanos Diogenes and his Descendants (hopefully).
His first child, David had been dispatched to the care of Christina's Barbaros and her family, the second Sophia was currently asleep in the cot in the room next door, waited on as was expected for someone of their social standing by a nurse incase she should wake.
lovemaking, that Roupen Rubenid was a man of sound political judgement who knew which way the wind was blowing.
The signs were she said obvious, the various aristocrats were beginning to distance themselves from Michael Dukas and focus it would appear on turning the thematic armies of the Empire into private extensions of their own power.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=240525   (6832 words)

  
 HyeForum > "Medieval Armenia and Cilicia Timeline" by Keran R
1151 - Rubenid family controls the Cilician plain, allies and marries
Hromkla is given to the Armenian catholicos by Beatrice
Hetum I) which joined the Rubenid and Het'umian families.
hyeforum.com /lofiversion/index.php?t4636.html   (4232 words)

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