List of monarchs III

Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie I (Lusignan)
[2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to _______ , ________ .
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
 
Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie I (Lusignan)
[2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1553 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son _______ succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
 
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Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie I (Lusignan)
[2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1553 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]
1589 - 1603: Constantine VI (Fransiakan - Lancastre) [11]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son Constantine succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
[11] The first decade of Constantine's rule was peaceful, with the Romans to the West and the Egyptians to the south more or less minding their own business. However, the Persian Revolution of 1599 forced the Shah Ebrahim into exile, and sought refuge in Armenia. Although Constantine wanted nothing to do with the deposed Shah and urged him to move onto Egypt or Constantinople, the new leader of the Persian Theocracy, Ayatollah Reza Yadri, invaded Armenia in 1602 citing the harbouring of the Shah as the casus belli. Valiantly killed in the Battle of Van in 1603.
 
Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie I (Lusignan)
[2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1556 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]
1589 - 1603: Constantine VI (Fransiakan) [11]
1603 - 1611: Leo VIII (Fransiakan) [12]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son Constantine succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
[11] The first decade of Constantine's rule was peaceful, with the Romans to the West and the Egyptians to the south more or less minding their own business. However, the Persian Revolution of 1599 forced the Shah Ebrahim into exile, and sought refuge in Armenia. Although Constantine wanted nothing to do with the deposed Shah and urged him to move onto Egypt or Constantinople, the new leader of the Persian Theocracy, Ayatollah Reza Yadri, invaded Armenia in 1602 citing the harbouring of the Shah as the casus belli. Valiantly killed in the Battle of Van in 1603.
[12] Leo VIII at age 23 took over following his father's death in battle. Although his reign was short, Leo was known for being an excellent military commander. First avenging his father's death, he fought back against the new Persian Theocracy. Seeking help from Persian rebels and other nations such as France, England and the Mughal Empire, he was able to reinstate the exiled Shah in 1607 and depose the theocracy. However despite this great victory, tensions increased with the Ottoman Empire due to a mix of longstanding political and religious tensions, border disputes and the reinstating of the Shah who had mix to negative relations with the Ottomans, war broke out. Leo was killed in battle in a very similar fashion to his father in 1610. Having never married (he claimed he was married to battle), his elder sister ________ succeeded him.
 
Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie I (Lusignan)
[2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1556 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]
1589 - 1603: Constantine VI (Fransiakan) [11]
1603 - 1611: Leo VIII (Fransiakan) [12]
1611-1690: Sarah II (Fransiakan) [13]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son Constantine succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
[11] The first decade of Constantine's rule was peaceful, with the Romans to the West and the Egyptians to the south more or less minding their own business. However, the Persian Revolution of 1599 forced the Shah Ebrahim into exile, and sought refuge in Armenia. Although Constantine wanted nothing to do with the deposed Shah and urged him to move onto Egypt or Constantinople, the new leader of the Persian Theocracy, Ayatollah Reza Yadri, invaded Armenia in 1602 citing the harbouring of the Shah as the casus belli. Valiantly killed in the Battle of Van in 1603.
[12] Leo VIII at age 23 took over following his father's death in battle. Although his reign was short, Leo was known for being an excellent military commander. First avenging his father's death, he fought back against the new Persian Theocracy. Seeking help from Persian rebels and other nations such as France, England and the Mughal Empire, he was able to reinstate the exiled Shah in 1607 and depose the theocracy. However despite this great victory, tensions increased with the Ottoman Empire due to a mix of longstanding political and religious tensions, border disputes and the reinstating of the Shah who had mix to negative relations with the Ottomans, war broke out. Leo was killed in battle in a very similar fashion to his father in 1610. Having never married (he claimed he was married to battle), his elder sister ________ succeeded him.
[13] Sarah's reign was one of change for her kingdom. Their second female ruler had an easier time taking the throne with the only objections coming from the fringes of Armenian politics. Sarah was raised to become a Sister and developed a hatred for the Muslim Caliphs around her, especially the Ottomans. Using a border skirmish that killed 8 Armenian men as a pretext she asked the Pope to declare a Crusade against the Ottoman Empire. The Pope declined and Sarah went out on her own instead, invading in 1620 with a force of over 50,000 men (mostly mercenaries) with her at their head. The Ottomans were quick to respond with two times the number of men. Expecting a girl to not lead her troops effectively the Ottomans prepared a gallant feast at their camp. Osman II began to position his troops and expected a orderly battle much like those he had encountered in Europe, he was sorely mistaken. Sarah charged forward and smashed Osman's troops while they were forming up and quickly gained the upperhand. Osman struggled to regain control but was unable to and forced to flee the field of battle, with his men close behind. Sarah treated her men to the feast the Ottomans prepared. The Battle was one of Armenia's greatest moments and Osman was chased around his Eastern Lands, never allowed time to regain the momentum. He surrendered when Sarah and her army (inflated by Ottoman peasants joining and Christians from across Europe) laid siege to Constantinople, the first time since the Ottomans themselves did it back in 1422. In the agreement Osman paid Armenia over a million dollars in todays money and created a buffer state between the two named Marsian. Sarah returned home a hero after almost a decade at war and faced new challenges as pretenders rose to usurp her throne. She died at the ripe old age of 90, having secured Armenia as a powerhouse in the Middle East.
 
I changed the last dates because I specifically said Sarah was the older sister of Leo VIII making her born in at least 1579.

Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie (Lusignan)
[2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1556 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]
1589 - 1603: Constantine VI (Fransiakan) [11]
1603 - 1611: Leo VIII (Fransiakan) [12]
1611 - 1669: Sarah II (Fransiakan) [13]
1669 - 1672: Michael (Sarkissian) [13]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son Constantine succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
[11] The first decade of Constantine's rule was peaceful, with the Romans to the West and the Egyptians to the south more or less minding their own business. However, the Persian Revolution of 1599 forced the Shah Ebrahim into exile, and sought refuge in Armenia. Although Constantine wanted nothing to do with the deposed Shah and urged him to move onto Egypt or Constantinople, the new leader of the Persian Theocracy, Ayatollah Reza Yadri, invaded Armenia in 1602 citing the harbouring of the Shah as the casus belli. Valiantly killed in the Battle of Van in 1603.
[12] Leo VIII at age 23 took over following his father's death in battle. Although his reign was short, Leo was known for being an excellent military commander. First avenging his father's death, he fought back against the new Persian Theocracy. Seeking help from Persian rebels and other nations such as France, England and the Mughal Empire, he was able to reinstate the exiled Shah in 1607 and depose the theocracy. However despite this great victory, tensions increased with the Ottoman Empire due to a mix of longstanding political and religious tensions, border disputes and the reinstating of the Shah who had mix to negative relations with the Ottomans, war broke out. Leo was killed in battle in a very similar fashion to his father in 1610. Having never married (he claimed he was married to battle), his elder sister Sarah succeeded him.
[13] Sarah's reign was one of change for her kingdom. Their second female ruler in recent times had an easier time taking the throne with the only objections coming from the fringes of Armenian politics. Sarah was raised to become a Sister and developed a hatred for the Muslim Caliphs around her, especially the Ottomans. Using a border skirmish that killed 8 Armenian men as a pretext she asked the Pope to declare a Crusade against the Ottoman Empire. The Pope declined and Sarah went out on her own instead, invading in 1620 with a force of over 50,000 men (mostly mercenaries) with her at their head. The Ottomans were quick to respond with two times the number of men. Expecting a girl to not lead her troops effectively the Ottomans prepared a gallant feast at their camp. Osman II began to position his troops and expected a orderly battle much like those he had encountered in Europe, he was sorely mistaken. Sarah charged forward and smashed Osman's troops while they were forming up and quickly gained the upperhand. Osman struggled to regain control but was unable to and forced to flee the field of battle, with his men close behind. Sarah treated her men to the feast the Ottomans prepared. The Battle was one of Armenia's greatest moments and Osman was chased around his Eastern Lands, never allowed time to regain the momentum. He surrendered when Sarah and her army (inflated by Ottoman peasants joining and Christians from across Europe) laid siege to Constantinople, the first time since the Ottomans themselves did it back in 1422. In the agreement Osman paid Armenia over a million dollars in todays money and created a buffer state between the two named Marsian. Sarah returned home a hero after almost a decade at war and faced new challenges as pretenders rose to usurp her throne. She died at the ripe old age of 90, having secured Armenia as a powerhouse in the Middle East.
[14] Sarah was succeeded by her nephew Michael Sarkissian the son of her younger sister Marie. Michael was already in his late sixties upon coming to power and had been the heir apparent for almost his entire life, Sarah having taken a vow of celibacy being a Sister. His reign was rather uneventful and Armenia remained a strong nation. His son and heir Gregory had predeceased him so he was instead succeeded by his grandson, Gregory's son _________.
 
I changed the last dates because I specifically said Sarah was the older sister of Leo VIII making her born in at least 1579.

Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie (Lusignan) [2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1556 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]
1589 - 1603: Constantine VI (Fransiakan) [11]
1603 - 1611: Leo VIII (Fransiakan) [12]
1611 - 1669: Sarah II (Fransiakan) [13]
1669 - 1672: Michael (Sarkissian) [14]
1672 - 1755: Leo IX (Sarkissian) [15]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son Constantine succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
[11] The first decade of Constantine's rule was peaceful, with the Romans to the West and the Egyptians to the south more or less minding their own business. However, the Persian Revolution of 1599 forced the Shah Ebrahim into exile, and sought refuge in Armenia. Although Constantine wanted nothing to do with the deposed Shah and urged him to move onto Egypt or Constantinople, the new leader of the Persian Theocracy, Ayatollah Reza Yadri, invaded Armenia in 1602 citing the harbouring of the Shah as the casus belli. Valiantly killed in the Battle of Van in 1603.
[12] Leo VIII at age 23 took over following his father's death in battle. Although his reign was short, Leo was known for being an excellent military commander. First avenging his father's death, he fought back against the new Persian Theocracy. Seeking help from Persian rebels and other nations such as France, England and the Mughal Empire, he was able to reinstate the exiled Shah in 1607 and depose the theocracy. However despite this great victory, tensions increased with the Ottoman Empire due to a mix of longstanding political and religious tensions, border disputes and the reinstating of the Shah who had mix to negative relations with the Ottomans, war broke out. Leo was killed in battle in a very similar fashion to his father in 1610. Having never married (he claimed he was married to battle), his elder sister Sarah succeeded him.
[13] Sarah's reign was one of change for her kingdom. Their second female ruler in recent times had an easier time taking the throne with the only objections coming from the fringes of Armenian politics. Sarah was raised to become a Sister and developed a hatred for the Muslim Caliphs around her, especially the Ottomans. Using a border skirmish that killed 8 Armenian men as a pretext she asked the Pope to declare a Crusade against the Ottoman Empire. The Pope declined and Sarah went out on her own instead, invading in 1620 with a force of over 50,000 men (mostly mercenaries) with her at their head. The Ottomans were quick to respond with two times the number of men. Expecting a girl to not lead her troops effectively the Ottomans prepared a gallant feast at their camp. Osman II began to position his troops and expected a orderly battle much like those he had encountered in Europe, he was sorely mistaken. Sarah charged forward and smashed Osman's troops while they were forming up and quickly gained the upperhand. Osman struggled to regain control but was unable to and forced to flee the field of battle, with his men close behind. Sarah treated her men to the feast the Ottomans prepared. The Battle was one of Armenia's greatest moments and Osman was chased around his Eastern Lands, never allowed time to regain the momentum. He surrendered when Sarah and her army (inflated by Ottoman peasants joining and Christians from across Europe) laid siege to Constantinople, the first time since the Ottomans themselves did it back in 1422. In the agreement Osman paid Armenia over a million dollars in todays money and created a buffer state between the two named Marsian. Sarah returned home a hero after almost a decade at war and faced new challenges as pretenders rose to usurp her throne. She died at the ripe old age of 90, having secured Armenia as a powerhouse in the Middle East.
[14] Sarah was succeeded by her nephew Michael Sarkissian the son of her younger sister Marie. Michael was already in his late sixties upon coming to power and had been the heir apparent for almost his entire life, Sarah having taken a vow of celibacy being a Sister. His reign was rather uneventful and Armenia remained a strong nation. His son and heir Gregory had predeceased him so he was instead succeeded by his grandson, Gregory's son Leo.
[15] Leo succeeded his grandfather at the age of 4, for the next 12 years the nation was under the regency of his aunt Marie (1672-1678) and then his older sister Charlotte (1678-1684.)
His personal reign began in 1684, when he became 16, the next 71 years of his reign saw, his nation become an influencial kingdom of the world stage, he was married three time, with all of his wives preceeding him.
Firstly Alexis, Duchess of Ruskies, married in 1688, who bore him three children and died in 1701.
Secondly Imperial Daughter, Prokopia of Rome, married in 1704, giving him five children and died in 1730.
Lastly Princess Jane of Britannia, married in 1731, she gave birth to only two children before dying in 1750.
The Kingdom of Armenia's borders grew, with more land being given to them by the Ruskies in the North and Egypt to the South.
His economy was strong enough to see his kingdom gain colonial land in Southern West and East Afria, bringing in trade and spreading the christian faith.
His reign of 83 years and 71 days is the longest of any monarch in history, however his death at the age of 87, also caused a dilema between which son should be the next king of Armenia.
 
Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie (Lusignan) [2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1556 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]
1589 - 1603: Constantine VI (Fransiakan) [11]
1603 - 1611: Leo VIII (Fransiakan) [12]
1611 - 1669: Sarah II (Fransiakan) [13]
1669 - 1672: Michael (Sarkissian) [14]
1672 - 1755: Leo IX (Sarkissian) [15]
1755-1800: George I (Sarkissian) [16]


[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son Constantine succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
[11] The first decade of Constantine's rule was peaceful, with the Romans to the West and the Egyptians to the south more or less minding their own business. However, the Persian Revolution of 1599 forced the Shah Ebrahim into exile, and sought refuge in Armenia. Although Constantine wanted nothing to do with the deposed Shah and urged him to move onto Egypt or Constantinople, the new leader of the Persian Theocracy, Ayatollah Reza Yadri, invaded Armenia in 1602 citing the harbouring of the Shah as the casus belli. Valiantly killed in the Battle of Van in 1603.
[12] Leo VIII at age 23 took over following his father's death in battle. Although his reign was short, Leo was known for being an excellent military commander. First avenging his father's death, he fought back against the new Persian Theocracy. Seeking help from Persian rebels and other nations such as France, England and the Mughal Empire, he was able to reinstate the exiled Shah in 1607 and depose the theocracy. However despite this great victory, tensions increased with the Ottoman Empire due to a mix of longstanding political and religious tensions, border disputes and the reinstating of the Shah who had mix to negative relations with the Ottomans, war broke out. Leo was killed in battle in a very similar fashion to his father in 1610. Having never married (he claimed he was married to battle), his elder sister Sarah succeeded him.
[13] Sarah's reign was one of change for her kingdom. Their second female ruler in recent times had an easier time taking the throne with the only objections coming from the fringes of Armenian politics. Sarah was raised to become a Sister and developed a hatred for the Muslim Caliphs around her, especially the Ottomans. Using a border skirmish that killed 8 Armenian men as a pretext she asked the Pope to declare a Crusade against the Ottoman Empire. The Pope declined and Sarah went out on her own instead, invading in 1620 with a force of over 50,000 men (mostly mercenaries) with her at their head. The Ottomans were quick to respond with two times the number of men. Expecting a girl to not lead her troops effectively the Ottomans prepared a gallant feast at their camp. Osman II began to position his troops and expected a orderly battle much like those he had encountered in Europe, he was sorely mistaken. Sarah charged forward and smashed Osman's troops while they were forming up and quickly gained the upperhand. Osman struggled to regain control but was unable to and forced to flee the field of battle, with his men close behind. Sarah treated her men to the feast the Ottomans prepared. The Battle was one of Armenia's greatest moments and Osman was chased around his Eastern Lands, never allowed time to regain the momentum. He surrendered when Sarah and her army (inflated by Ottoman peasants joining and Christians from across Europe) laid siege to Constantinople, the first time since the Ottomans themselves did it back in 1422. In the agreement Osman paid Armenia over a million dollars in todays money and created a buffer state between the two named Marsian. Sarah returned home a hero after almost a decade at war and faced new challenges as pretenders rose to usurp her throne. She died at the ripe old age of 90, having secured Armenia as a powerhouse in the Middle East.
[14] Sarah was succeeded by her nephew Michael Sarkissian the son of her younger sister Marie. Michael was already in his late sixties upon coming to power and had been the heir apparent for almost his entire life, Sarah having taken a vow of celibacy being a Sister. His reign was rather uneventful and Armenia remained a strong nation. His son and heir Gregory had predeceased him so he was instead succeeded by his grandson, Gregory's son Leo.
[15] Leo succeeded his grandfather at the age of 4, for the next 12 years the nation was under the regency of his aunt Marie (1672-1678) and then his older sister Charlotte (1678-1684.)
His personal reign began in 1684, when he became 16, the next 71 years of his reign saw, his nation become an influencial kingdom of the world stage, he was married three time, with all of his wives preceeding him.
Firstly Alexis, Duchess of Ruskies, married in 1688, who bore him three children and died in 1701.
Secondly Imperial Daughter, Prokopia of Rome, married in 1704, giving him five children and died in 1730.
Lastly Princess Jane of Britannia, married in 1731, she gave birth to only two children before dying in 1750.
The Kingdom of Armenia's borders grew, with more land being given to them by the Ruskies in the North and Egypt to the South.
His economy was strong enough to see his kingdom gain colonial land in Southern West and East Afria, bringing in trade and spreading the christian faith.
His reign of 83 years and 71 days is the longest of any monarch in history, however his death at the age of 87, also caused a dilema between which son should be the next king of Armenia.
[16] King George was an accident in the most literal sense. His brothers engaged in a large amount of court maneuvering to secure their place until George's brother Saul finally emerged dominate. Saul, unfortunately though was put into a coma when a bird dropped a turtle on his head, fracturing his skull. With his brothers dead and Saul in a coma George was the only man left, and the kingdom would never be the same again. He quickly distinguished himself as literally the worst man ever to hold a kingly title in Armenian history. He mismanaged his internal realm leading to frequent civil wars (which it was a wonder how he won them). He also was gay and therefore never had a child. The Ottomans, still bitter over Sarah II's victory over Osman, took Georges ineptitude in stride. They invaded the country soon after in 1760. George led his troops into many valiant battles and managed to lose every single one of them. The saving grace was when one of his generals launched a semi-coup, locking George in the capital while the Army fought the Ottomans. After a decade of war the Ottomans and Armenians decided enough was enough and a peace was settled. With the war over the commander of the army allowed the King his rule once again, assuming he would die soon anyway due to a severe bout of illness (probably malaria). George recovered and proceeded to blunder Armenia through almost 40 more years of disasters before being murdered by an angry mob. The story goes he was hung from his ankles upside down over a cliff and allowed for him to be slowly eaten by wildlife in revenge for his failures as a ruler.
 
Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie (Lusignan) [2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1556 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]
1589 - 1603: Constantine VI (Fransiakan) [11]
1603 - 1611: Leo VIII (Fransiakan) [12]
1611 - 1669: Sarah II (Fransiakan) [13]
1669 - 1672: Michael (Sarkissian) [14]
1672 - 1755: Leo IX (Sarkissian) [15]
1755 - 1800: George I (Sarkissian) [16]

1800 - 1803: George II (Sarkissian) [17]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son Constantine succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
[11] The first decade of Constantine's rule was peaceful, with the Romans to the West and the Egyptians to the south more or less minding their own business. However, the Persian Revolution of 1599 forced the Shah Ebrahim into exile, and sought refuge in Armenia. Although Constantine wanted nothing to do with the deposed Shah and urged him to move onto Egypt or Constantinople, the new leader of the Persian Theocracy, Ayatollah Reza Yadri, invaded Armenia in 1602 citing the harbouring of the Shah as the casus belli. Valiantly killed in the Battle of Van in 1603.
[12] Leo VIII at age 23 took over following his father's death in battle. Although his reign was short, Leo was known for being an excellent military commander. First avenging his father's death, he fought back against the new Persian Theocracy. Seeking help from Persian rebels and other nations such as France, England and the Mughal Empire, he was able to reinstate the exiled Shah in 1607 and depose the theocracy. However despite this great victory, tensions increased with the Ottoman Empire due to a mix of longstanding political and religious tensions, border disputes and the reinstating of the Shah who had mix to negative relations with the Ottomans, war broke out. Leo was killed in battle in a very similar fashion to his father in 1610. Having never married (he claimed he was married to battle), his elder sister Sarah succeeded him.
[13] Sarah's reign was one of change for her kingdom. Their second female ruler in recent times had an easier time taking the throne with the only objections coming from the fringes of Armenian politics. Sarah was raised to become a Sister and developed a hatred for the Muslim Caliphs around her, especially the Ottomans. Using a border skirmish that killed 8 Armenian men as a pretext she asked the Pope to declare a Crusade against the Ottoman Empire. The Pope declined and Sarah went out on her own instead, invading in 1620 with a force of over 50,000 men (mostly mercenaries) with her at their head. The Ottomans were quick to respond with two times the number of men. Expecting a girl to not lead her troops effectively the Ottomans prepared a gallant feast at their camp. Osman II began to position his troops and expected a orderly battle much like those he had encountered in Europe, he was sorely mistaken. Sarah charged forward and smashed Osman's troops while they were forming up and quickly gained the upperhand. Osman struggled to regain control but was unable to and forced to flee the field of battle, with his men close behind. Sarah treated her men to the feast the Ottomans prepared. The Battle was one of Armenia's greatest moments and Osman was chased around his Eastern Lands, never allowed time to regain the momentum. He surrendered when Sarah and her army (inflated by Ottoman peasants joining and Christians from across Europe) laid siege to Constantinople, the first time since the Ottomans themselves did it back in 1422. In the agreement Osman paid Armenia over a million dollars in todays money and created a buffer state between the two named Marsian. Sarah returned home a hero after almost a decade at war and faced new challenges as pretenders rose to usurp her throne. She died at the ripe old age of 90, having secured Armenia as a powerhouse in the Middle East.
[14] Sarah was succeeded by her nephew Michael Sarkissian the son of her younger sister Marie. Michael was already in his late sixties upon coming to power and had been the heir apparent for almost his entire life, Sarah having taken a vow of celibacy being a Sister. His reign was rather uneventful and Armenia remained a strong nation. His son and heir Gregory had predeceased him so he was instead succeeded by his grandson, Gregory's son Leo.
[15] Leo succeeded his grandfather at the age of 4, for the next 12 years the nation was under the regency of his aunt Marie (1672-1678) and then his older sister Charlotte (1678-1684.)
His personal reign began in 1684, when he became 16, the next 71 years of his reign saw, his nation become an influencial kingdom of the world stage, he was married three time, with all of his wives preceeding him.
Firstly Alexis, Duchess of Ruskies, married in 1688, who bore him three children and died in 1701.
Secondly Imperial Daughter, Prokopia of Rome, married in 1704, giving him five children and died in 1730.
Lastly Princess Jane of Britannia, married in 1731, she gave birth to only two children before dying in 1750.
The Kingdom of Armenia's borders grew, with more land being given to them by the Ruskies in the North and Egypt to the South.
His economy was strong enough to see his kingdom gain colonial land in Southern West and East Afria, bringing in trade and spreading the christian faith.
His reign of 83 years and 71 days is the longest of any monarch in history, however his death at the age of 87, also caused a dilema between which son should be the next king of Armenia.
[16] King George was an accident in the most literal sense. His brothers engaged in a large amount of court maneuvering to secure their place until George's brother Saul finally emerged dominate. Saul, unfortunately though was put into a coma when a bird dropped a turtle on his head, fracturing his skull. With his brothers dead and Saul in a coma George was the only man left, and the kingdom would never be the same again. He quickly distinguished himself as literally the worst man ever to hold a kingly title in Armenian history. He mismanaged his internal realm leading to frequent civil wars (which it was a wonder how he won them). He also was gay and therefore never had a child. The Ottomans, still bitter over Sarah II's victory over Osman, took Georges ineptitude in stride. They invaded the country soon after in 1760. George led his troops into many valiant battles and managed to lose every single one of them. The saving grace was when one of his generals launched a semi-coup, locking George in the capital while the Army fought the Ottomans. After a decade of war the Ottomans and Armenians decided enough was enough and a peace was settled. With the war over the commander of the army allowed the King his rule once again, assuming he would die soon anyway due to a severe bout of illness (probably malaria). George recovered and proceeded to blunder Armenia through almost 40 more years of disasters before being murdered by an angry mob. The story goes he was hung from his ankles upside down over a cliff and allowed for him to be slowly eaten by wildlife in revenge for his failures as a ruler.
[17] Grandson of George I, George II struggled with the revolution that gripped the kingdom after the fall of his grandfather. Things got so chaotic that the Revolutionaries intruded on Ottoman, Persian, and Egyptian territory. In June 1803, the three lumbering giants who normally hated each other have had enough, and agreed to partition Armenia among the three empires, and invaded. Before one of the revolutionary mobs got to him, he committed suicide in September 11, 1803.
 
Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie (Lusignan) [2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1556 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]
1589 - 1603: Constantine VI (Fransiakan) [11]
1603 - 1611: Leo VIII (Fransiakan) [12]
1611 - 1669: Sarah II (Fransiakan) [13]
1669 - 1672: Michael (Sarkissian) [14]
1672 - 1755: Leo IX (Sarkissian) [15]
1755 - 1800: George I (Sarkissian) [16]

1800 - 1803: George II (Sarkissian) [17]
1803 - 1894: The Partition [18]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son Constantine succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
[11] The first decade of Constantine's rule was peaceful, with the Romans to the West and the Egyptians to the south more or less minding their own business. However, the Persian Revolution of 1599 forced the Shah Ebrahim into exile, and sought refuge in Armenia. Although Constantine wanted nothing to do with the deposed Shah and urged him to move onto Egypt or Constantinople, the new leader of the Persian Theocracy, Ayatollah Reza Yadri, invaded Armenia in 1602 citing the harbouring of the Shah as the casus belli. Valiantly killed in the Battle of Van in 1603.
[12] Leo VIII at age 23 took over following his father's death in battle. Although his reign was short, Leo was known for being an excellent military commander. First avenging his father's death, he fought back against the new Persian Theocracy. Seeking help from Persian rebels and other nations such as France, England and the Mughal Empire, he was able to reinstate the exiled Shah in 1607 and depose the theocracy. However despite this great victory, tensions increased with the Ottoman Empire due to a mix of longstanding political and religious tensions, border disputes and the reinstating of the Shah who had mix to negative relations with the Ottomans, war broke out. Leo was killed in battle in a very similar fashion to his father in 1610. Having never married (he claimed he was married to battle), his elder sister Sarah succeeded him.
[13] Sarah's reign was one of change for her kingdom. Their second female ruler in recent times had an easier time taking the throne with the only objections coming from the fringes of Armenian politics. Sarah was raised to become a Sister and developed a hatred for the Muslim Caliphs around her, especially the Ottomans. Using a border skirmish that killed 8 Armenian men as a pretext she asked the Pope to declare a Crusade against the Ottoman Empire. The Pope declined and Sarah went out on her own instead, invading in 1620 with a force of over 50,000 men (mostly mercenaries) with her at their head. The Ottomans were quick to respond with two times the number of men. Expecting a girl to not lead her troops effectively the Ottomans prepared a gallant feast at their camp. Osman II began to position his troops and expected a orderly battle much like those he had encountered in Europe, he was sorely mistaken. Sarah charged forward and smashed Osman's troops while they were forming up and quickly gained the upperhand. Osman struggled to regain control but was unable to and forced to flee the field of battle, with his men close behind. Sarah treated her men to the feast the Ottomans prepared. The Battle was one of Armenia's greatest moments and Osman was chased around his Eastern Lands, never allowed time to regain the momentum. He surrendered when Sarah and her army (inflated by Ottoman peasants joining and Christians from across Europe) laid siege to Constantinople, the first time since the Ottomans themselves did it back in 1422. In the agreement Osman paid Armenia over a million dollars in todays money and created a buffer state between the two named Marsian. Sarah returned home a hero after almost a decade at war and faced new challenges as pretenders rose to usurp her throne. She died at the ripe old age of 90, having secured Armenia as a powerhouse in the Middle East.
[14] Sarah was succeeded by her nephew Michael Sarkissian the son of her younger sister Marie. Michael was already in his late sixties upon coming to power and had been the heir apparent for almost his entire life, Sarah having taken a vow of celibacy being a Sister. His reign was rather uneventful and Armenia remained a strong nation. His son and heir Gregory had predeceased him so he was instead succeeded by his grandson, Gregory's son Leo.
[15] Leo succeeded his grandfather at the age of 4, for the next 12 years the nation was under the regency of his aunt Marie (1672-1678) and then his older sister Charlotte (1678-1684.)
His personal reign began in 1684, when he became 16, the next 71 years of his reign saw, his nation become an influencial kingdom of the world stage, he was married three time, with all of his wives preceeding him.
Firstly Alexis, Duchess of Ruskies, married in 1688, who bore him three children and died in 1701.
Secondly Imperial Daughter, Prokopia of Rome, married in 1704, giving him five children and died in 1730.
Lastly Princess Jane of Britannia, married in 1731, she gave birth to only two children before dying in 1750.
The Kingdom of Armenia's borders grew, with more land being given to them by the Ruskies in the North and Egypt to the South.
His economy was strong enough to see his kingdom gain colonial land in Southern West and East Afria, bringing in trade and spreading the christian faith.
His reign of 83 years and 71 days is the longest of any monarch in history, however his death at the age of 87, also caused a dilema between which son should be the next king of Armenia.
[16] King George was an accident in the most literal sense. His brothers engaged in a large amount of court maneuvering to secure their place until George's brother Saul finally emerged dominate. Saul, unfortunately though was put into a coma when a bird dropped a turtle on his head, fracturing his skull. With his brothers dead and Saul in a coma George was the only man left, and the kingdom would never be the same again. He quickly distinguished himself as literally the worst man ever to hold a kingly title in Armenian history. He mismanaged his internal realm leading to frequent civil wars (which it was a wonder how he won them). He also was gay and therefore never had a child. The Ottomans, still bitter over Sarah II's victory over Osman, took Georges ineptitude in stride. They invaded the country soon after in 1760. George led his troops into many valiant battles and managed to lose every single one of them. The saving grace was when one of his generals launched a semi-coup, locking George in the capital while the Army fought the Ottomans. After a decade of war the Ottomans and Armenians decided enough was enough and a peace was settled. With the war over the commander of the army allowed the King his rule once again, assuming he would die soon anyway due to a severe bout of illness (probably malaria). George recovered and proceeded to blunder Armenia through almost 40 more years of disasters before being murdered by an angry mob. The story goes he was hung from his ankles upside down over a cliff and allowed for him to be slowly eaten by wildlife in revenge for his failures as a ruler.
[17] Grandson of George I, George II struggled with the revolution that gripped the kingdom after the fall of his grandfather. Things got so chaotic that the Revolutionaries intruded on Ottoman, Persian, and Egyptian territory. In June 1803, the three lumbering giants who normally hated each other have had enough, and agreed to partition Armenia among the three empires, and invaded. Before one of the revolutionary mobs got to him, he committed suicide in September 11, 1803.
[18] The Partition was a terrible time for the nation. Several revolts for freedom occured but were surpressed. Still Armenian national character survived and thrived abroad. When the War of the World ended in 1894, Aremenia emerged agains stronger them before out of the ashes of the now gone and destroyed Empire that had conquered it. The new goverment invited _______, of the Sarkissian dynasty to rule a Constituional monarchy.
 
Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie (Lusignan) [2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1556 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]
1589 - 1603: Constantine VI (Fransiakan) [11]
1603 - 1611: Leo VIII (Fransiakan) [12]
1611 - 1669: Sarah II (Fransiakan) [13]
1669 - 1672: Michael (Sarkissian) [14]
1672 - 1755: Leo IX (Sarkissian) [15]
1755 - 1800: George I (Sarkissian) [16]

1800 - 1803: George II (Sarkissian) [17]
1803 - 1894: The Partition [18]
1894 - 1911: Constantine VII (Sarkissian) [19]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son Constantine succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
[11] The first decade of Constantine's rule was peaceful, with the Romans to the West and the Egyptians to the south more or less minding their own business. However, the Persian Revolution of 1599 forced the Shah Ebrahim into exile, and sought refuge in Armenia. Although Constantine wanted nothing to do with the deposed Shah and urged him to move onto Egypt or Constantinople, the new leader of the Persian Theocracy, Ayatollah Reza Yadri, invaded Armenia in 1602 citing the harbouring of the Shah as the casus belli. Valiantly killed in the Battle of Van in 1603.
[12] Leo VIII at age 23 took over following his father's death in battle. Although his reign was short, Leo was known for being an excellent military commander. First avenging his father's death, he fought back against the new Persian Theocracy. Seeking help from Persian rebels and other nations such as France, England and the Mughal Empire, he was able to reinstate the exiled Shah in 1607 and depose the theocracy. However despite this great victory, tensions increased with the Ottoman Empire due to a mix of longstanding political and religious tensions, border disputes and the reinstating of the Shah who had mix to negative relations with the Ottomans, war broke out. Leo was killed in battle in a very similar fashion to his father in 1610. Having never married (he claimed he was married to battle), his elder sister Sarah succeeded him.
[13] Sarah's reign was one of change for her kingdom. Their second female ruler in recent times had an easier time taking the throne with the only objections coming from the fringes of Armenian politics. Sarah was raised to become a Sister and developed a hatred for the Muslim Caliphs around her, especially the Ottomans. Using a border skirmish that killed 8 Armenian men as a pretext she asked the Pope to declare a Crusade against the Ottoman Empire. The Pope declined and Sarah went out on her own instead, invading in 1620 with a force of over 50,000 men (mostly mercenaries) with her at their head. The Ottomans were quick to respond with two times the number of men. Expecting a girl to not lead her troops effectively the Ottomans prepared a gallant feast at their camp. Osman II began to position his troops and expected a orderly battle much like those he had encountered in Europe, he was sorely mistaken. Sarah charged forward and smashed Osman's troops while they were forming up and quickly gained the upperhand. Osman struggled to regain control but was unable to and forced to flee the field of battle, with his men close behind. Sarah treated her men to the feast the Ottomans prepared. The Battle was one of Armenia's greatest moments and Osman was chased around his Eastern Lands, never allowed time to regain the momentum. He surrendered when Sarah and her army (inflated by Ottoman peasants joining and Christians from across Europe) laid siege to Constantinople, the first time since the Ottomans themselves did it back in 1422. In the agreement Osman paid Armenia over a million dollars in todays money and created a buffer state between the two named Marsian. Sarah returned home a hero after almost a decade at war and faced new challenges as pretenders rose to usurp her throne. She died at the ripe old age of 90, having secured Armenia as a powerhouse in the Middle East.
[14] Sarah was succeeded by her nephew Michael Sarkissian the son of her younger sister Marie. Michael was already in his late sixties upon coming to power and had been the heir apparent for almost his entire life, Sarah having taken a vow of celibacy being a Sister. His reign was rather uneventful and Armenia remained a strong nation. His son and heir Gregory had predeceased him so he was instead succeeded by his grandson, Gregory's son Leo.
[15] Leo succeeded his grandfather at the age of 4, for the next 12 years the nation was under the regency of his aunt Marie (1672-1678) and then his older sister Charlotte (1678-1684.)
His personal reign began in 1684, when he became 16, the next 71 years of his reign saw, his nation become an influencial kingdom of the world stage, he was married three time, with all of his wives preceeding him.
Firstly Alexis, Duchess of Ruskies, married in 1688, who bore him three children and died in 1701.
Secondly Imperial Daughter, Prokopia of Rome, married in 1704, giving him five children and died in 1730.
Lastly Princess Jane of Britannia, married in 1731, she gave birth to only two children before dying in 1750.
The Kingdom of Armenia's borders grew, with more land being given to them by the Ruskies in the North and Egypt to the South.
His economy was strong enough to see his kingdom gain colonial land in Southern West and East Afria, bringing in trade and spreading the christian faith.
His reign of 83 years and 71 days is the longest of any monarch in history, however his death at the age of 87, also caused a dilema between which son should be the next king of Armenia.
[16] King George was an accident in the most literal sense. His brothers engaged in a large amount of court maneuvering to secure their place until George's brother Saul finally emerged dominate. Saul, unfortunately though was put into a coma when a bird dropped a turtle on his head, fracturing his skull. With his brothers dead and Saul in a coma George was the only man left, and the kingdom would never be the same again. He quickly distinguished himself as literally the worst man ever to hold a kingly title in Armenian history. He mismanaged his internal realm leading to frequent civil wars (which it was a wonder how he won them). He also was gay and therefore never had a child. The Ottomans, still bitter over Sarah II's victory over Osman, took Georges ineptitude in stride. They invaded the country soon after in 1760. George led his troops into many valiant battles and managed to lose every single one of them. The saving grace was when one of his generals launched a semi-coup, locking George in the capital while the Army fought the Ottomans. After a decade of war the Ottomans and Armenians decided enough was enough and a peace was settled. With the war over the commander of the army allowed the King his rule once again, assuming he would die soon anyway due to a severe bout of illness (probably malaria). George recovered and proceeded to blunder Armenia through almost 40 more years of disasters before being murdered by an angry mob. The story goes he was hung from his ankles upside down over a cliff and allowed for him to be slowly eaten by wildlife in revenge for his failures as a ruler.
[17] Grandson of George I, George II struggled with the revolution that gripped the kingdom after the fall of his grandfather. Things got so chaotic that the Revolutionaries intruded on Ottoman, Persian, and Egyptian territory. In June 1803, the three lumbering giants who normally hated each other have had enough, and agreed to partition Armenia among the three empires, and invaded. Before one of the revolutionary mobs got to him, he committed suicide in September 11, 1803.
[18] The Partition was a terrible time for the nation. Several revolts for freedom occured but were surpressed. Still Armenian national character survived and thrived abroad. When the War of the World ended in 1894, Aremenia emerged agains stronger them before out of the ashes of the now gone and destroyed Empire that had conquered it. The new goverment invited Constantine, of the Sarkissian dynasty to rule a Constituional monarchy.
[19] Constantine VII was known as the "Great Restorer" and considered the founder of modern Armenia alongside Navek Saroyan who became the country's first prime minister after restoration in 1894. Under Constantine's reign, Armenia began to redevelop after over a hundred years of being left behind and began it's slow path to restoration. The beloved king died in 1911 and having no sons was succeeded by his eldest daughter _______.
 
Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1374 - 1393: Leo V (Lusignan) [1]
1393 - 1429: Marie (Lusignan) [2]
1429 - 1432: Leo VI (Gulbenkian) [3]
1432 - 1480 Joseph I (Gulbenkian) [4]
1480 - 1496 Joseph II (Gulbenkian) [5]
1496 - 1498: Leo VII (Gulbenkian) [6]
1498 - 1544: Constantine V (Gulbenkian) [7]
1544 - 1551: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]

Kings of Armenia
1551 - 1553: Stephen II (Gulbenkian) [8]
1553 - 1556: Joseph "The Martyr" III (Gulbenkian) [9]
1556 - 1589: Sarah I (Gulbenkian) [10]
1589 - 1603: Constantine VI (Fransiakan) [11]
1603 - 1611: Leo VIII (Fransiakan) [12]
1611 - 1669: Sarah II (Fransiakan) [13]
1669 - 1672: Michael (Sarkissian) [14]
1672 - 1755: Leo IX (Sarkissian) [15]
1755 - 1800: George I (Sarkissian) [16]

1800 - 1803: George II (Sarkissian) [17]
1803 - 1894: The Partition [18]
1894 - 1911: Constantine VII (Sarkissian) [19]
1911 - 1915: Marie II (Sarkissian) [20]

[1] Levon V (or Leo/Leon) managed to save his Kingdom from the Mamluks with help from Christians from the west. The population, greatful for the help, gave less resistance to Levon's attempts to introduce the Latin rite, leaving the Kingdom religiously united at the end of his reign and putting the turmoil of the past years behind them.
[2] The daughter of Levon V, the 26-year-reign of Queen Marie of Armenian Cilicia was not easy feat, especially in its first few years; defending the borders from the hostile Mamluks, convincing the Crusader nobles to accept her consort, Manuel Gulbenkian, and confronting those who plot to overthrow her. Because of her fluency in the Armenian language, she quickly won the popular support of Cilicia, supported the flourishing medieval Armenian literature, and personally suggested the tactics that strengthened the royal army. It was during her reign that the campaign to reclaim the "Old Homeland" started as she named his half-brothers, both military generals, to lead the campaign.The last three years of Marie's reign was furtherly complicated by her struggle with sickness, in what modern historians believed as ovarian cancer. She was succeeded by her son Leo VI.
[3] Leo VI, an accomplished soldier focused much of his short reign of continuing his mother's building up the Armenian military in order to defend the small country from possible invaders. Leo was assassinated after ruling for three years by a member of the clergy in the Armenian Apostolic Church who was angered with the king's expressed desires to reunite the Armenian church with Roman Catholicism. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[4] Joseph continued his father's work to reunite the Armenian Church with the Catholic Church. He introduced army and civil service reforms that greatly strengthened the kingdom. However after the fall of the Byzantines in 1470 the Turks turned to take him out. He was killed in battle in 1480, leaving the future of the kingdom uncertain.
[5] Joseph I's son quickly took power as Joseph II. Determined to force the Turks away from his kingdom for good, he called for help from the west and France and Spain rushed to his aid. In 1486, a Turkish army headed for Armenia was stopped in its tracks by Joseph II. After this decisive victory, he signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire where the two men promised to never attack each other. The rest of Joseph II's reign was relatively peaceful but marked with interior fighting amongst nobles. Joseph died in 1496 and his son Leo VII succeeded him.
[6] Leo VII ruled for just fourteen months and was a sickly man throughout his reign. He died in 1498 and was succeeded by his brother, Constantine .
[7] Constantine gained the throne on his brother at the age of 15 and to keep away from needing a regency, he married his widow sister-in-law.
He invested much of his efforts in cultivating the lands and rebuilding the towns within his domain and provided ample provisions for pilgrims and fellow European travellers. He kept the peace with the Sultan of Egypt and died of bowel cancer. Leaving the throne to his son Stephen.
[8] Although the first monarch named Stephen, Constantine's son and successor took the reignal number "II" in honor of his ancestor Stephen, Marshal of Armenia. He continued efforts to westernize his kingdom and make it considered a European power as opposed to a backwater kingdom in West Asia. In 1551, he changed his title to "King of Armenia" as opposed to "King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia." He died two years later and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
[9] Joseph was a kind-hearted pious prince, devoting his time and energy to help the poor and needy in his father's kingdom.
However when his time to reign came, it was cut short when he was abducted, during diplomatic talks with the Sultan of Egypt, by Muslim rebels who burnt him on a crucifix, being the last male of the royal line of the House of Gulbenkian. The throne pasted over to his niece Sarah.
He was venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Joseph of Armenia.
[10] Sarah was the daughter of Stephen, the younger brother of King Joseph who predeceased him. Coming to the throne at age 16, the young, smart, beautiful and charming Queen was determined to make Armenia into a formidable nation. And that she did. The nation continued to grow and prosper during her reign though fought off the occasional Muslim invasion. Armenia also cemented it's ties with Europe, Sarah marrying Charles (who changed his name to Constantine upon being received into the Armenian Church which although now in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church maintained some of it's traditions) the youngest son of Henri III of France and by him had several children. Armenian and the culture also grew as the much-delayed Renaissance hit the tiny kingdom at full force. Sarah also abolished serfdom and was considered "the Great Liberator" for that reason. She died in a freak carriage accident where her son Constantine succeeded her, the first monarch of the Fransiakan (French) Dynasty. Her death was mourned by many Armenians.
[11] The first decade of Constantine's rule was peaceful, with the Romans to the West and the Egyptians to the south more or less minding their own business. However, the Persian Revolution of 1599 forced the Shah Ebrahim into exile, and sought refuge in Armenia. Although Constantine wanted nothing to do with the deposed Shah and urged him to move onto Egypt or Constantinople, the new leader of the Persian Theocracy, Ayatollah Reza Yadri, invaded Armenia in 1602 citing the harbouring of the Shah as the casus belli. Valiantly killed in the Battle of Van in 1603.
[12] Leo VIII at age 23 took over following his father's death in battle. Although his reign was short, Leo was known for being an excellent military commander. First avenging his father's death, he fought back against the new Persian Theocracy. Seeking help from Persian rebels and other nations such as France, England and the Mughal Empire, he was able to reinstate the exiled Shah in 1607 and depose the theocracy. However despite this great victory, tensions increased with the Ottoman Empire due to a mix of longstanding political and religious tensions, border disputes and the reinstating of the Shah who had mix to negative relations with the Ottomans, war broke out. Leo was killed in battle in a very similar fashion to his father in 1610. Having never married (he claimed he was married to battle), his elder sister Sarah succeeded him.
[13] Sarah's reign was one of change for her kingdom. Their second female ruler in recent times had an easier time taking the throne with the only objections coming from the fringes of Armenian politics. Sarah was raised to become a Sister and developed a hatred for the Muslim Caliphs around her, especially the Ottomans. Using a border skirmish that killed 8 Armenian men as a pretext she asked the Pope to declare a Crusade against the Ottoman Empire. The Pope declined and Sarah went out on her own instead, invading in 1620 with a force of over 50,000 men (mostly mercenaries) with her at their head. The Ottomans were quick to respond with two times the number of men. Expecting a girl to not lead her troops effectively the Ottomans prepared a gallant feast at their camp. Osman II began to position his troops and expected a orderly battle much like those he had encountered in Europe, he was sorely mistaken. Sarah charged forward and smashed Osman's troops while they were forming up and quickly gained the upperhand. Osman struggled to regain control but was unable to and forced to flee the field of battle, with his men close behind. Sarah treated her men to the feast the Ottomans prepared. The Battle was one of Armenia's greatest moments and Osman was chased around his Eastern Lands, never allowed time to regain the momentum. He surrendered when Sarah and her army (inflated by Ottoman peasants joining and Christians from across Europe) laid siege to Constantinople, the first time since the Ottomans themselves did it back in 1422. In the agreement Osman paid Armenia over a million dollars in todays money and created a buffer state between the two named Marsian. Sarah returned home a hero after almost a decade at war and faced new challenges as pretenders rose to usurp her throne. She died at the ripe old age of 90, having secured Armenia as a powerhouse in the Middle East.
[14] Sarah was succeeded by her nephew Michael Sarkissian the son of her younger sister Marie. Michael was already in his late sixties upon coming to power and had been the heir apparent for almost his entire life, Sarah having taken a vow of celibacy being a Sister. His reign was rather uneventful and Armenia remained a strong nation. His son and heir Gregory had predeceased him so he was instead succeeded by his grandson, Gregory's son Leo.
[15] Leo succeeded his grandfather at the age of 4, for the next 12 years the nation was under the regency of his aunt Marie (1672-1678) and then his older sister Charlotte (1678-1684.)
His personal reign began in 1684, when he became 16, the next 71 years of his reign saw, his nation become an influencial kingdom of the world stage, he was married three time, with all of his wives preceeding him.
Firstly Alexis, Duchess of Ruskies, married in 1688, who bore him three children and died in 1701.
Secondly Imperial Daughter, Prokopia of Rome, married in 1704, giving him five children and died in 1730.
Lastly Princess Jane of Britannia, married in 1731, she gave birth to only two children before dying in 1750.
The Kingdom of Armenia's borders grew, with more land being given to them by the Ruskies in the North and Egypt to the South.
His economy was strong enough to see his kingdom gain colonial land in Southern West and East Afria, bringing in trade and spreading the christian faith.
His reign of 83 years and 71 days is the longest of any monarch in history, however his death at the age of 87, also caused a dilema between which son should be the next king of Armenia.
[16] King George was an accident in the most literal sense. His brothers engaged in a large amount of court maneuvering to secure their place until George's brother Saul finally emerged dominate. Saul, unfortunately though was put into a coma when a bird dropped a turtle on his head, fracturing his skull. With his brothers dead and Saul in a coma George was the only man left, and the kingdom would never be the same again. He quickly distinguished himself as literally the worst man ever to hold a kingly title in Armenian history. He mismanaged his internal realm leading to frequent civil wars (which it was a wonder how he won them). He also was gay and therefore never had a child. The Ottomans, still bitter over Sarah II's victory over Osman, took Georges ineptitude in stride. They invaded the country soon after in 1760. George led his troops into many valiant battles and managed to lose every single one of them. The saving grace was when one of his generals launched a semi-coup, locking George in the capital while the Army fought the Ottomans. After a decade of war the Ottomans and Armenians decided enough was enough and a peace was settled. With the war over the commander of the army allowed the King his rule once again, assuming he would die soon anyway due to a severe bout of illness (probably malaria). George recovered and proceeded to blunder Armenia through almost 40 more years of disasters before being murdered by an angry mob. The story goes he was hung from his ankles upside down over a cliff and allowed for him to be slowly eaten by wildlife in revenge for his failures as a ruler.
[17] Grandson of George I, George II struggled with the revolution that gripped the kingdom after the fall of his grandfather. Things got so chaotic that the Revolutionaries intruded on Ottoman, Persian, and Egyptian territory. In June 1803, the three lumbering giants who normally hated each other have had enough, and agreed to partition Armenia among the three empires, and invaded. Before one of the revolutionary mobs got to him, he committed suicide in September 11, 1803.
[18] The Partition was a terrible time for the nation. Several revolts for freedom occured but were surpressed. Still Armenian national character survived and thrived abroad. When the War of the World ended in 1894, Aremenia emerged agains stronger them before out of the ashes of the now gone and destroyed Empire that had conquered it. The new goverment invited Constantine, of the Sarkissian dynasty to rule a Constituional monarchy.
[19] Constantine VII was known as the "Great Restorer" and considered the founder of modern Armenia alongside Navek Saroyan who became the country's first prime minister after restoration in 1894. Under Constantine's reign, Armenia began to redevelop after over a hundred years of being left behind and began it's slow path to restoration. The beloved king died in 1911 and having no sons was succeeded by his eldest daughter Marie II.
[20] Marie II proved to be an ineffective ruler. Her rule was meet with opposition and revolts. Marie requested assistance from Russia to put down the rebellions, but the Russians refused to leave in 1914 and demanded that Marie swear fealty to the Russian Empire. When she refused, the Russians murdered her family and deposed her and annexed the minor kingdom by force.
 
What if John of Brandenburg survived childhood?

Electors of Brandenburg:
1413 - 1471: Frederick II (House Hohenzollern)
1471 - 1497: John VI (House Hohenzollern) [1]

[1] John succeeded his father. He lead Brandenburg into an age of greatness with his expansion of Brandenburg into Silesia. He married Princess Sophia of Poland and used Poland to achieve his goals in the Baltics. Upon the death of Sophia, rather than remarry another Polish princess, he married Maria Francesca of Austria. Poland was soon drawn into an alliance with Sweden. This lead to what became the "Great Baltic War" in 1492, as John VI attempted to seize the Swedish occupied Bornholm. The war continued after his death in 1497 when he was succeeded by his second son by Sophia of Poland, ___________.
 
What if John of Brandenburg survived childhood?

Electors of Brandenburg:
1413 - 1471: Frederick II (House Hohenzollern)
1471 - 1497: John VI (House Hohenzollern) [1]
1497-1550: Vlad (House Hohenzollern) [2]

[1] John succeeded his father. He lead Brandenburg into an age of greatness with his expansion of Brandenburg into Silesia. He married Princess Sophia of Poland and used Poland to achieve his goals in the Baltics. Upon the death of Sophia, rather than remarry another Polish princess, he married Maria Francesca of Austria. Poland was soon drawn into an alliance with Sweden. This lead to what became the "Great Baltic War" in 1492, as John VI attempted to seize the Swedish occupied Bornholm. The war continued after his death in 1497 when he was succeeded by his second son by Sophia of Poland, Vlad Hohenzollern.
[2] Vlad was very uninvolved in the war with Sweden, instead focusing on the interplay between the separate HRE kings and princes. He began to galvanize HRE support for electing his son Emperor when he became of age. As the war began to turn against Brandenburg he met with the Swedish King in Stockholm and negotiated a peace in 1530. Under the Peace Accords of Stockholm Sweden terminated the War and in return Brandenburg agreed to relinquish its claims on Silesia.
 
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What if Harold Godwinson defeated William of Normandy and Harald Hardrada?
King of England 1066-
1066-1079: Harold II House of Godwin[1]

[1]After defeating both Duke William the Bastard and King Harald Hardrada, Harold II solidified once more the Anglo-Saxon rule over England. Not much is known about him, besides him dying of an illness in 1079 and being succeeded by his son, .
 
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What if John of Brandenburg survived childhood?

Electors of Brandenburg:
1413 - 1471: Frederick II (House Hohenzollern)
1471 - 1497: John VI (House Hohenzollern) [1]
1497 - 1550: Vlad (House Hohenzollern) [2]
1450 - 1562: Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (House Hohenzollern) [3]

[1] John succeeded his father. He lead Brandenburg into an age of greatness with his expansion of Brandenburg into Silesia. He married Princess Sophia of Poland and used Poland to achieve his goals in the Baltics. Upon the death of Sophia, rather than remarry another Polish princess, he married Maria Francesca of Austria. Poland was soon drawn into an alliance with Sweden. This lead to what became the "Great Baltic War" in 1492, as John VI attempted to seize the Swedish occupied Bornholm. The war continued after his death in 1497 when he was succeeded by his second son by Sophia of Poland, Vlad Hohenzollern.
[2] Vlad was very uninvolved in the war with Sweden, instead focusing on the interplay between the separate HRE kings and princes. He began to galvanize HRE support for electing his son Emperor when he became of age. As the war began to turn against Brandenburg he met with the Swedish King in Stockholm and negotiated a peace in 1530. Under the Peace Accords of Stockholm Sweden terminated the War and in return Brandenburg agreed to relinquish its claims on Silesia.
[3] Elected Emperor in 1522 upon the death of Philip I of Habsburg, when the electors were convinced by his father that the Habsburgs were growing too strong with their inheritance of Burgundy, Naples, Aragon, and Castile. Surprisingly, Philips' son Ferdinand was all too happy not to get elected and would rather focus on governing his realms outside the HRE. The only notable event during his tenure as Duke of Brandenburg was exiling some wacko heretic named Martin Luther off to the Russias, and endorsing John Calvin, Bishop of Geneva as Pope Julius III. Died at the age of 68.
 
What if John of Brandenburg survived childhood?

Electors of Brandenburg:
1413 - 1471: Frederick II (House Hohenzollern)
1471 - 1497: John VI (House Hohenzollern) [1]
1497 - 1550: Vlad (House Hohenzollern) [2]
1550 - 1562: Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (House Hohenzollern) [3]
1562 - 1573: John V (House Hohenzollern)[4]

Kings of Poland, Grand Dukes of Lithuania and Electors of Brandenburg:
1573 - 1595: John V (House Hohenzollern)[4]


[1] John succeeded his father. He lead Brandenburg into an age of greatness with his expansion of Brandenburg into Silesia. He married Princess Sophia of Poland and used Poland to achieve his goals in the Baltics. Upon the death of Sophia, rather than remarry another Polish princess, he married Maria Francesca of Austria. Poland was soon drawn into an alliance with Sweden. This lead to what became the "Great Baltic War" in 1492, as John VI attempted to seize the Swedish occupied Bornholm. The war continued after his death in 1497 when he was succeeded by his second son by Sophia of Poland, Vlad Hohenzollern.
[2] Vlad was very uninvolved in the war with Sweden, instead focusing on the interplay between the separate HRE kings and princes. He began to galvanize HRE support for electing his son Emperor when he became of age. As the war began to turn against Brandenburg he met with the Swedish King in Stockholm and negotiated a peace in 1530. Under the Peace Accords of Stockholm Sweden terminated the War and in return Brandenburg agreed to relinquish its claims on Silesia.
[3] Elected Emperor in 1522 upon the death of Philip I of Habsburg, when the electors were convinced by his father that the Habsburgs were growing too strong with their inheritance of Burgundy, Naples, Aragon, and Castile. Surprisingly, Philips' son Ferdinand was all too happy not to get elected and would rather focus on governing his realms outside the HRE. The only notable event during his tenure as Duke of Brandenburg was exiling some wacko heretic named Martin Luther off to the Russias, and endorsing John Calvin, Bishop of Geneva as Pope Julius III. Died at the age of 68.
[4]After his father's death John sucedded him as the ruler of Brandenburg but he didn't menage to be elected the Emperor which title was granted yet again to the House of Habsburg. However in 1573 he achived a major political success when after the death of his cousin Casimir V King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania he was chosen as his successor uniting the three realms under a personal union. During his reign the reforms introduced by Pope Julius III started to garner strong opposition among parts of the clergy especially in France and Spain. In 1575 those tensions lead to the election of Benoti, Bishop of Orléans, as the legitimate Pope Pius IV by the French and Spanish cardinals.


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What if Harold Godwinson defeated William of Normandy and Harald Hardrada?
Kings of England (1066-)
1066 - 1079: Harold II (House of Godwin)[1]
1079 - 1082: Harold III (House of Godwin)[2]

[1]After defeating both Duke William the Bastard and King Harald Hardrada, Harold II solidified once more the Anglo-Saxon rule over England. Not much is known about him, besides him dying of an illness in 1079 and being succeeded by his son, Harold.
[2] Harold III ruled only for three years when he died from an unknown disease hypothesized to be cancer.
 
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What if John of Brandenburg survived childhood?

Electors of Brandenburg:
1413 - 1471: Frederick II (House Hohenzollern)
1471 - 1497: John VI (House Hohenzollern) [1]
1497 - 1550: Vlad (House Hohenzollern) [2]
1550 - 1562: Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (House Hohenzollern) [3]
1562 - 1573: John V (House Hohenzollern)[4]

Kings of Poland, Grand Dukes of Lithuania and Electors of Brandenburg:
1573 - 1595: John V (House Hohenzollern)[4]
1595 - 1612: Frederick IV (House Hohenzollern) [5]

[1] John succeeded his father. He lead Brandenburg into an age of greatness with his expansion of Brandenburg into Silesia. He married Princess Sophia of Poland and used Poland to achieve his goals in the Baltics. Upon the death of Sophia, rather than remarry another Polish princess, he married Maria Francesca of Austria. Poland was soon drawn into an alliance with Sweden. This lead to what became the "Great Baltic War" in 1492, as John VI attempted to seize the Swedish occupied Bornholm. The war continued after his death in 1497 when he was succeeded by his second son by Sophia of Poland, Vlad Hohenzollern.
[2] Vlad was very uninvolved in the war with Sweden, instead focusing on the interplay between the separate HRE kings and princes. He began to galvanize HRE support for electing his son Emperor when he became of age. As the war began to turn against Brandenburg he met with the Swedish King in Stockholm and negotiated a peace in 1530. Under the Peace Accords of Stockholm Sweden terminated the War and in return Brandenburg agreed to relinquish its claims on Silesia.
[3] Elected Emperor in 1522 upon the death of Philip I of Habsburg, when the electors were convinced by his father that the Habsburgs were growing too strong with their inheritance of Burgundy, Naples, Aragon, and Castile. Surprisingly, Philips' son Ferdinand was all too happy not to get elected and would rather focus on governing his realms outside the HRE. The only notable event during his tenure as Duke of Brandenburg was exiling some wacko heretic named Martin Luther off to the Russias, and endorsing John Calvin, Bishop of Geneva as Pope Julius III. Died at the age of 68.
[4] After his father's death John sucedded him as the ruler of Brandenburg but he didn't menage to be elected the Emperor which title was granted yet again to the House of Habsburg. However in 1573 he achived a major political success when after the death of his cousin Casimir V King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania he was chosen as his successor uniting the three realms under a personal union. During his reign the reforms introduced by Pope Julius III started to garner strong opposition among parts of the clergy especially in France and Spain. In 1575 those tensions lead to the election of Benoti, Bishop of Orléans, as the legitimate Pope Pius IV by the French and Spanish cardinals.
[5] Frederick's reign started off as a peaceful one, with many believing he would become the next Holy Roman Emperor, however this was not ment to be as the death of Russian Tsar, Feodor Ivanovich, in 1598, caused "The Time of Trouble" for Eastern Europe.
Frederick saw this as a time to gain land and push Roman Catholicism over the Eastern Orthodox Russians, he married his eldest daughter Catherine, to a unknown Russian nobleman, and pushed them onto the throne of Russia, only to have them both killed two years later, during a civil uprise in Moscow.
Frederick died three years later, with his three year old grandson, Nicholas, as Tsar of Russia and his eldest son, __________ , taking over his Electoral and Polish relm.

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What if Harold Godwinson defeated William of Normandy and Harald Hardrada?
Kings of England (1066-)
1066 - 1079: Harold II (House of Godwin)[1]
1079 - 1082: Harold III (House of Godwin)[2]
1082 - 1126: Edward II (House of Godwin)[3]

[1]After defeating both Duke William the Bastard and King Harald Hardrada, Harold II solidified once more the Anglo-Saxon rule over England. Not much is known about him, besides him dying of an illness in 1079 and being succeeded by his son, Harold.
[2] Harold III ruled only for three years when he died from an unknown disease hypothesized to be cancer.
[3] Brother of Harold III, Edward choose his royal number so as to count, his uncle, Edward the Confessor, as the first Edward to be King of England.
Edward had been born in 1051, and was married to Ogiva of Flanders, the youngest daughter of Robert I, Count of Flanders, this alliance would do the Kingdom of England well as Robert the Frisian, was also hostile to the Normans, and was able to help fend off a second wave of Invasion in 1122, 56 years after the battle of Hastings.
He died at the old age of 75, leaving his throne to his grandson, __________ , as his eldest son, Edgar, had died in the Battle of Dover, 1122.
 
What if John of Brandenburg survived childhood?

Electors of Brandenburg:
1413 - 1471: Frederick II (House Hohenzollern)
1471 - 1497: John VI (House Hohenzollern) [1]
1497 - 1550: Vlad (House Hohenzollern) [2]
1550 - 1562: Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (House Hohenzollern) [3]
1562 - 1573: John V (House Hohenzollern)[4]

Kings of Poland, Grand Dukes of Lithuania and Electors of Brandenburg:
1573 - 1595: John V (House Hohenzollern)[4]
1595 - 1612: Frederick IV (House Hohenzollern) [5]
1612 - 1619: Frederick Gabriel (House Hohenzollern) [6]

Kings of Poland and Electors of Brandenburg:
1619 - 1630: Frederick Gabriel (House Hohenzollern) [6]

[1] John succeeded his father. He lead Brandenburg into an age of greatness with his expansion of Brandenburg into Silesia. He married Princess Sophia of Poland and used Poland to achieve his goals in the Baltics. Upon the death of Sophia, rather than remarry another Polish princess, he married Maria Francesca of Austria. Poland was soon drawn into an alliance with Sweden. This lead to what became the "Great Baltic War" in 1492, as John VI attempted to seize the Swedish occupied Bornholm. The war continued after his death in 1497 when he was succeeded by his second son by Sophia of Poland, Vlad Hohenzollern.
[2] Vlad was very uninvolved in the war with Sweden, instead focusing on the interplay between the separate HRE kings and princes. He began to galvanize HRE support for electing his son Emperor when he became of age. As the war began to turn against Brandenburg he met with the Swedish King in Stockholm and negotiated a peace in 1530. Under the Peace Accords of Stockholm Sweden terminated the War and in return Brandenburg agreed to relinquish its claims on Silesia.
[3] Elected Emperor in 1522 upon the death of Philip I of Habsburg, when the electors were convinced by his father that the Habsburgs were growing too strong with their inheritance of Burgundy, Naples, Aragon, and Castile. Surprisingly, Philips' son Ferdinand was all too happy not to get elected and would rather focus on governing his realms outside the HRE. The only notable event during his tenure as Duke of Brandenburg was exiling some wacko heretic named Martin Luther off to the Russias, and endorsing John Calvin, Bishop of Geneva as Pope Julius III. Died at the age of 68.
[4] After his father's death John sucedded him as the ruler of Brandenburg but he didn't menage to be elected the Emperor which title was granted yet again to the House of Habsburg. However in 1573 he achived a major political success when after the death of his cousin Casimir V King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania he was chosen as his successor uniting the three realms under a personal union. During his reign the reforms introduced by Pope Julius III started to garner strong opposition among parts of the clergy especially in France and Spain. In 1575 those tensions lead to the election of Benoti, Bishop of Orléans, as the legitimate Pope Pius IV by the French and Spanish cardinals.
[5] Frederick's reign started off as a peaceful one, with many believing he would become the next Holy Roman Emperor, however this was not meant to be as the death of Russian Tsar, Feodor Ivanovich, in 1598, caused "The Time of Trouble" for Eastern Europe.
Frederick saw this as a time to gain land and push Roman Catholicism over the Eastern Orthodox Russians, he married his eldest daughter Catherine, to a unknown Russian nobleman, and pushed them onto the throne of Russia, only to have them both killed two years later, during a civil uprise in Moscow.
Frederick died three years later, with his three year old grandson, Nicholas, as Tsar of Russia and his eldest son, Fredrick Gabriel , taking over his Electoral and Polish realm.
[6] Since the start of Frederick Gabriel's reign the dissent in Lithuania was growing stronger by the year. Lithuanian nobles started to accuse Hohenzollern of lack of interest in the matters of the Grand Duchy which accusations eventually escalated in full blown calls for rebellion. Frederic Gabriel, who was not much of a warrior, decided to negotiate with the leading members of Lithuanian gentry. These negotiations ultimately resulted in Frederick Gabriel ceding the title of Grand Duke of Lithuania to his half-brother John(son of Frederic IV and his second wife Anna Radziwił).

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What if Harold Godwinson defeated William of Normandy and Harald Hardrada?
Kings of England (1066-)
1066 - 1079: Harold II (House of Godwin)[1]
1079 - 1082: Harold III (House of Godwin)[2]
1082 - 1126: Edward II (House of Godwin)[3]
1126 - 1133: Godric the Strong (House of Godwin) [4]

[1]After defeating both Duke William the Bastard and King Harald Hardrada, Harold II solidified once more the Anglo-Saxon rule over England. Not much is known about him, besides him dying of an illness in 1079 and being succeeded by his son, Harold.
[2] Harold III ruled only for three years when he died from an unknown disease hypothesized to be cancer.
[3] Brother of Harold III, Edward choose his royal number so as to count, his uncle, Edward the Confessor, as the first Edward to be King of England.
Edward had been born in 1051, and was married to Ogiva of Flanders, the youngest daughter of Robert I, Count of Flanders, this alliance would do the Kingdom of England well as Robert the Frisian, was also hostile to the Normans, and was able to help fend off a second wave of Invasion in 1122, 56 years after the battle of Hastings.
He died at the old age of 75, leaving his throne to his grandson, Godric, as his eldest son, Edgar, had died in the Battle of Dover, 1122.
[4] Godric's reign is primarily known as a time in which Wales was ultimately subjugated by the Anglo-Saxons. Godric himself was known as a fierce combatant who lead his armies in many battles. He died at the age of 35 after being kicked in the chest by his newly acquired horse. He left his throne to his 16 years old son,__________.
 
What if John of Brandenburg survived childhood?

Electors of Brandenburg:
1413 - 1471: Frederick II (House Hohenzollern)
1471 - 1497: John VI (House Hohenzollern) [1]
1497 - 1550: Vlad (House Hohenzollern) [2]
1550 - 1562: Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (House Hohenzollern) [3]
1562 - 1573: John V (House Hohenzollern)[4]

Kings of Poland, Grand Dukes of Lithuania and Electors of Brandenburg:
1573 - 1595: John V (House Hohenzollern)[4]
1595 - 1612: Frederick IV (House Hohenzollern) [5]
1612 - 1619: Frederick V Gabriel (House Hohenzollern) [6]

Kings of Poland and Electors of Brandenburg:
1619 - 1630: Frederick V Gabriel (House Hohenzollern) [6]
1630 - 1656: Jan VI (House Hohenzollern) [7]

[1] John succeeded his father. He lead Brandenburg into an age of greatness with his expansion of Brandenburg into Silesia. He married Princess Sophia of Poland and used Poland to achieve his goals in the Baltics. Upon the death of Sophia, rather than remarry another Polish princess, he married Maria Francesca of Austria. Poland was soon drawn into an alliance with Sweden. This lead to what became the "Great Baltic War" in 1492, as John VI attempted to seize the Swedish occupied Bornholm. The war continued after his death in 1497 when he was succeeded by his second son by Sophia of Poland, Vlad Hohenzollern.
[2] Vlad was very uninvolved in the war with Sweden, instead focusing on the interplay between the separate HRE kings and princes. He began to galvanize HRE support for electing his son Emperor when he became of age. As the war began to turn against Brandenburg he met with the Swedish King in Stockholm and negotiated a peace in 1530. Under the Peace Accords of Stockholm Sweden terminated the War and in return Brandenburg agreed to relinquish its claims on Silesia.
[3] Elected Emperor in 1522 upon the death of Philip I of Habsburg, when the electors were convinced by his father that the Habsburgs were growing too strong with their inheritance of Burgundy, Naples, Aragon, and Castile. Surprisingly, Philips' son Ferdinand was all too happy not to get elected and would rather focus on governing his realms outside the HRE. The only notable event during his tenure as Duke of Brandenburg was exiling some wacko heretic named Martin Luther off to the Russias, and endorsing John Calvin, Bishop of Geneva as Pope Julius III. Died at the age of 68.
[4] After his father's death John sucedded him as the ruler of Brandenburg but he didn't menage to be elected the Emperor which title was granted yet again to the House of Habsburg. However in 1573 he achived a major political success when after the death of his cousin Casimir V King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania he was chosen as his successor uniting the three realms under a personal union. During his reign the reforms introduced by Pope Julius III started to garner strong opposition among parts of the clergy especially in France and Spain. In 1575 those tensions lead to the election of Benoti, Bishop of Orléans, as the legitimate Pope Pius IV by the French and Spanish cardinals.
[5] Frederick's reign started off as a peaceful one, with many believing he would become the next Holy Roman Emperor, however this was not meant to be as the death of Russian Tsar, Feodor Ivanovich, in 1598, caused "The Time of Trouble" for Eastern Europe.
Frederick saw this as a time to gain land and push Roman Catholicism over the Eastern Orthodox Russians, he married his eldest daughter Catherine, to a unknown Russian nobleman, and pushed them onto the throne of Russia, only to have them both killed two years later, during a civil uprise in Moscow.
Frederick died three years later, with his three year old grandson, Nicholas, as Tsar of Russia and his eldest son, Fredrick Gabriel , taking over his Electoral and Polish realm.
[6] Since the start of Frederick Gabriel's reign the dissent in Lithuania was growing stronger by the year. Lithuanian nobles started to accuse Hohenzollern of lack of interest in the matters of the Grand Duchy which accusations eventually escalated in full blown calls for rebellion. Frederic Gabriel, who was not much of a warrior, decided to negotiate with the leading members of Lithuanian gentry. These negotiations ultimately resulted in Frederick Gabriel ceding the title of Grand Duke of Lithuania to his half-brother John(son of Frederic IV and his second wife Anna Radziwił).
[7] It was under Jan's reign that a noticable shift happened. Having spent most of his time in the east the royal family had become more slavic. Brandenburg during his reign also became more and more slavic, being influenced by the Polish population. This allowed Poland, Lithuania, and Russia to also develop a strong allaince. This scared off most of the electors from electing Jan as Emperor, however the title started to become meaningless. Jan focused on the Baltic and began conquer several of the islands. Getting a grasp on the trade in the area.
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What if Harold Godwinson defeated William of Normandy and Harald Hardrada?
Kings of England (1066-)
1066 - 1079: Harold II (House of Godwin)[1]
1079 - 1082: Harold III (House of Godwin)[2]
1082 - 1126: Edward II (House of Godwin)[3]
1126 - 1133: Godric the Strong (House of Godwin) [4]
1126 - 1133: Egbert (House of Wessex) [5]

[1]After defeating both Duke William the Bastard and King Harald Hardrada, Harold II solidified once more the Anglo-Saxon rule over England. Not much is known about him, besides him dying of an illness in 1079 and being succeeded by his son, Harold.
[2] Harold III ruled only for three years when he died from an unknown disease hypothesized to be cancer.
[3] Brother of Harold III, Edward choose his royal number so as to count, his uncle, Edward the Confessor, as the first Edward to be King of England.
Edward had been born in 1051, and was married to Ogiva of Flanders, the youngest daughter of Robert I, Count of Flanders, this alliance would do the Kingdom of England well as Robert the Frisian, was also hostile to the Normans, and was able to help fend off a second wave of Invasion in 1122, 56 years after the battle of Hastings.
He died at the old age of 75, leaving his throne to his grandson, Godric, as his eldest son, Edgar, had died in the Battle of Dover, 1122.
[4] Godric's reign is primarily known as a time in which Wales was ultimately subjugated by the Anglo-Saxons. Godric himself was known as a fierce combatant who lead his armies in many battles. He died at the age of 35 after being kicked in the chest by his newly acquired horse. He left his throne to his 16 years old son, Harold.
[5] Although Godric wanted his son to suceed him, the Welsh rebellion and Scottish invasion led to the Witans of the Assemby to electe the 25 year old experienced commander of Godwin's Egbert of Wessex, Egbert was a descendent of Edgar of Wessex and Edward the Confessor's dynasty. Egbert defeated the Scottish invasion, and secured Wales, building a series of Forts to secure the region. He also began to develop a unified legal code for the nation.
 
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