Alice of Armenia
Alice of Armenia (* 1182, † after 1234, before 1240) was an Armenian princess and mistress of Toron. She was the eldest daughter of Prince Ruben III. of Lesser Armenia and his wife Isabella of Toron.
Upon the death of her father in 1187 that her uncle Leo II succeeded as prince.
Alice was married three times. In her first marriage she was in 1189, still a minor, with the Armenian nobles Hethum of Sasun, Lord of Misis, married. The marriage was never consummated because Hethum died in 1193. He may have been murdered to allow Alice's second marriage.
In the winter of 1194/95, her uncle Leo II with Prince Bohemond III. made peace of Antioch, Alice was married to reaffirm the peace with Bohemond's son and heir Raimund I of Antioch, who from 1187 to 1189 than had already been Raymond IV, Count of Tripoli. With him she had one son, Raimund II Ruben. However, Alice's husband died before his father Bohemond III. , So that her brother Bohemund IV, Raymond's younger brother, 1201, the Principality of Antioch and Alice inherited auswies with her son after Lesser Armenia.
Together with her son Raimund II Ruben Alice later tried to overthrow her brother. This they succeeded in 1216 with the capture of Antioch, where now Raimund II Ruben reigned, but in 1219 Bohemond IV could sell them and regain the throne. Alice and Raimund II Ruben then fell into a small Armenian Cilicia, where they established themselves in Tarsus, and their originating from Alice's father demanded claims to the throne of Lesser Armenia.
In his third wife Alice married there in 1220 by Vahram Korykos, the Marshal of Lesser Armenia. They were defeated in 1221 by Konstantin von Lambron and imprisoned. Raimund II Reuben died in 1222 in prison, Vahram was assassinated in the same year.
After her release, Alice turned her Erbansprüchen to Palestine. From her mother she inherited their claims on Toron and Oultrejordain, reigns in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which, however, were occupied since 1187 or 1189 of the Muslim Ayyubids. 1229, the rule of Toron was returned to the Christians under the Treaty of Jaffa ( Crusade of Frederick II ) and initially given to the Teutonic Order, which restored the castle Toron before Alice as King of Jerusalem its claims to Toron argued with Emperor Frederick II and was enfeoffed by decision of the Haute Cour of Jerusalem in their favor with the rule of Toron.
The rule was in 1239, when the 10 -year-old peace of Jaffa ended, re-conquered by the Muslims. Was again returned as Toron in winter 1240/1241 as part of the Crusade of the barons peacefully to the Christians, it was Alice's granddaughter ( the daughter of Raimund II Rubens) Maria of Antioch and her husband Philip of Montfort, who was invested with Toron.