Ruben III, Prince of Armenia

Ruben III. of Armenia ( † 1187 Drazark ) was the ruling from 1174 to 1187 prince of Lesser Armenia. He was the son of Stephen I and Retha de Barbaron. The barons sat him after the murder of his uncle Mleh a ruler.

After the defeat of the Byzantines at the Battle of Myriokephalon in September 1176 Ruben allied with the victorious Rum - Seljuks.

In 1177 he supported Prince Bohemond III. of Antioch in his unsuccessful siege of Harenc.

In the spring of 1181 he undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. There he married Isabella of Toron, daughter of Humphrey III. of Toron and Stephanie of Transjordan, which deepened his Beziegungen to the Crusader states. With Isabella he had two daughters:

  • Philippa (* 1183 ),

He fought his Armenian rival, the Hethumiden who had allied with the Byzantines. 1182 Ruben was of Bohemond III. captured by Antioch. As ransom he should pay 30,000 solidi and pass some Cilician coastal cities. Instead of always tight money offered to Ruben to pass the Byzantine governor Isaac Comnenus and his family, which he himself had been captured previously. Bohemond agreed.

1187 in favor of his brother Ruben thanked Leon II and died a short time later as a monk in the monastery Drazark.

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