The Hethumids ( hy, Հեթումյաններ Hethumian) (also spelled Hetoumids or Het'umids), also known as the House of Lampron (after
Lampron Lampron (; ; ) is a castle near the town of Çamlıyayla in Mersin Province, Turkey. While part of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in the Middle Ages, the castle was known as Lampron and was the ancestral home of the Armenian Hethumid princes. Situ ...
castle), were an
Armenian
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* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
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dynasty and the rulers of the
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (Middle Armenian: , '), also known as Cilician Armenia ( hy, Կիլիկեան Հայաստան, '), Lesser Armenia, Little Armenia or New Armenia, and formerly known as the Armenian Principality of Cilicia ( hy, ...
from 1226 to 1341. Hethum I, the first of the Hethumids, came to power when he married
Queen Isabella of Armenia
Isabella ( hy, Զապել; 27 January 1216/ 25 January 1217 – 23 January 1252), also Isabel or Zabel, was queen regnant of Armenian Cilicia from 1219 until her death in 1252.
She was proclaimed queen under the regency of Adam of Baghras. Aft ...
who had inherited the throne from her father.
Hethumid Kings of Armenia
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Hethum (or Hetoum) I (1226–1270)
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Leo II (1270–1289) – son of Hethum I
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Hethum II
Hethum II ( hy, Հեթում Բ; 1266– November 17, 1307), also known by several other romanizations, was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1289 to 1293, 1295 to 1296 and 1299 to 1303, while Armenia was a subject state of the M ...
(1289–1293) – son of Leo II
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Thoros III
Thoros III or Toros III ( hy, Թորոս Երրորդ, same as Theodore; c. 1271 – 23 July 1298) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1293 to 1298. He was the son of Leo II of Armenia and Kyranna de Lampron, and was part of ...
(1293–1298) – son of Leo II
* Hethum II (1294–1297: second reign)
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Smbat (1297–1299) – son of Leo II
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Constantine I (III) (1299) – son of Leo II
* Hethum II (1299–1301: third reign), regent 1301–1307
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Leo III (1301–1307) – son of Thoros III
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Oshin
is a Japanese serialized morning television drama (''asadora''), which originally aired on NHK from 4 April 1983 to 31 March 1984; it is the 31st ''asadora'' overall to be produced. The 297 15-minute episodes follow the life of during the Me ...
(1307–1320) – son of Leo II
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Leo IV (1320–1341) – son of Oshin
:''Armenia passed then to the
Lusignans
The House of Lusignan ( ; ) was a royal house of French origin, which at various times ruled several principalities in Europe and the Levant, including the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Armenia, from the 12th through the 15th centuries duri ...
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{{Royal houses of Armenia