Leo V, King of Armenia

Leon VI. (* 1342, † November 29, 1393 in Calais ) was as Leo V the last king of the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia, who exercised the regency there.

His father was John of Cyprus Lusignan, the son of Amalric of Tyre. His mother was Soldane, the daughter of King Giorgi V of Georgia. Leon was a nephew of the king 's paternal Constantine IV of Armenia Minor (aka Guy of Lusignan ), whom he succeeded in 1374.

Already in 1375 his country was conquered by the Mamluks. Leon was overthrown and remained the next seven years imprisoned in Egypt until it King John I of Castile sparked 1382. He died in 1393 as a personality at the court of Charles V in Paris. Charles VI. let him Zölestinerkloster, bury the necropolis of the House of Orléans. The French Revolution was only the grave plate. In the 19th century it was built as a mausoleum only non - French king in the Saint- Denis.