The Crusader era witnessed numerous marriages between Cilician Armenian royalty/nobility and  Crusade leaders. Baldwin of Le Bourg married Morfia, daughter of the wealthy Gabriel of Melitene (Malatya); Hetoum I’s sister Stephanie married Henry I of Cyprus; another sister (Maria) married John of Ibelin, count of Jaffa. Hetoum’s daughters Sibyl and Euphemia married Bohemond VI of Antioch and Julian, count of Sidon respectively; a third daughter (Maria) married Guy of Ibelin (son of Baldwin) and seneschal of Cyprus. Hetoum’s fourth daughter (Rita) married an Armenian Lord of Sarvantikar.

 

The Crusader era witnessed numerous marriages between Cilician Armenian royalty/nobility and  Crusade leaders. Baldwin of Le Bourg married Morfia, daughter of the wealthy Gabriel of Melitene (Malatya); Hetoum I’s sister Stephanie married Henry I of Cyprus; another sister (Maria) married John of Ibelin, count of Jaffa. Hetoum’s daughters Sibyl and Euphemia married Bohemond VI of Antioch and Julian, count of Sidon respectively; a third daughter (Maria) married Guy of Ibelin (son of Baldwin) and seneschal of Cyprus. Hetoum’s fourth daughter (Rita) married an Armenian Lord of Sarvantikar.

 

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