Margaret of Poitiers-Lusignan (1276–1296) was

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as the first wife of King

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 ...

. She was queen from 1293 until her death, three years later. She had two sons, Leo III, who ruled for four years as king, and Bohemond, whose fate is unknown.

Family

Margaret was born in 1276, a daughter of King

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and Isabella of Ibelin. She had 10 siblings including King

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. She was a member of the cadet branch of the influential French

Lusignan 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 du ...

dynasty, which had ruled the Crusader states of Cyprus and Jerusalem since the late 12th century.

Queen of Armenia

On 9 January 1288, she married Thoros, a son of King Leo II of Armenia.

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granted a dispensation for their marriage; this was done and the dispensation was dated 23 May 1286. He became

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in 1289, and in 1293 succeeded his deposed brother

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 ...

as king 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, ...

. On 8 January 1290 at the age of about 13 or 14, Margaret gave birth to a son, Leo, who later ruled as king from 1303 until 7 November 1307, when he was murdered by a

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. She also had a second son, Bohemond, but his history is not known. Margaret was queen for three years until her own death in 1296 at the age of 20. Her husband subsequently married a Mongol woman whose name was not recorded.

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