Marie of Korikos (1321 – before 1405) was
Queen consort of Armenia
This is a list of Armenian royal consorts.
Kingdom of Armenia
Ancient Armenian queens
* Rodogune of Persia, daughter of King Artaxerxes of Persia, wife of Orontes II
*Antiochis, sister of Antiochus III the Great, wife of Xerxes
* Satenik ...
by marriage to
Constantine III, King of Armenia
Constantine III (also Constantine V; french: Constantin V d'Arménie; hy, Կոստանդին, Western Armenian transliteration: ''Gosdantin'' or ''Kostantine''; April 17, 1313 – December 21, 1362) was the King of Armenian Cilicia from 134 ...
and
Constantine IV, King of Armenia
Constantine IV (also Constantine VI; hy, Կոստանդին, Western Armenian transliteration: ''Gosdantin'' or ''Kostantine''; died 1373) was the King of Armenian Cilicia from 1362 until his death. He was the son of Hethum of Neghir, a nephew o ...
. She was the daughter of
Oshin of Corycos Oshin of Korikos (or Corycos) (died 1329) served as regent of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1320 to 1329. He was the son of the historian Hayton of Korikos."Le Royaume Armenien de Cilicie", Claude Mutafian, p.80 He became regent for Leo I ...
and
Jeanne of Anjou.
Life
Marie's maternal grandparents were
Philip I, Prince of Taranto
Philip I of Taranto (10 November 1278 – 26 December 1331), of the Capetian House of Anjou, Angevin house, was titular Latin Empire, Latin Emperor of Constantinople (as Philip II) by right of his wife Catherine of Valois–Courtenay, Despot of Ro ...
and his first wife
Thamar Angelina Komnene
Thamar Angelina Komnene ( gr, Θαμάρ Αγγελίνα Κομνηνή; died ) was a princess consort of Taranto by marriage to Prince Philip I.
Life
Thamar was the daughter of Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas of the Despotate of Epirus and his seco ...
. Philip was son of
Charles II of Naples
Charles II, also known as Charles the Lame (french: Charles le Boiteux; it, Carlo lo Zoppo; 1254 – 5 May 1309), was King of Naples, Count of Provence and Forcalquier (1285–1309), Prince of Achaea (1285–1289), and Count of Anjou and Maine ( ...
and his wife
Maria of Hungary.
Marie's paternal grandparents were
Hayton of Corycus
Hayton of Corycus (also ''Hethum, Het'um'', and variants; in Armenian known as "Hethum the Historian" ; c. 1240 – c. 1310/1320) was a medieval Armenian nobleman, monk and historiographer.
Hayton is the author of ("Flower of the Histories of ...
and Isabella of Ibelin, daughter of Guy of Ibelin and Maria of Armenia, herself daughter of
Isabella, Queen 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. Afte ...
and her second husband
Hethum I, King of Armenia
Hethum I (Armenian language, Armenian: Հեթում Ա; 1213 – 21 October 1270) ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (also known as "Little Armenia") from 1226 to 1270. He was the son of Constantine of Baberon (d. 1263) and Princess Alix Pahlav ...
.
Marie's father had previously been married to Margaret of Ibelin and had a daughter, her half-sister
Alice of Korikos, who married
Leo IV, King of Armenia
Leo IV or Leon IV ( hy, Լեւոն Դ, ''Levon IV'') (also numbered Leo V; ) (1309 – August 28, 1341) was the last Hethumid king of Cilicia, ruling from 1320 until his death. He was the son of Oshin of Armenia and Isabel of Korikos, and came to ...
but was murdered by him in 1329 along with Marie's father who had acted as regent but had killed various members of the Armenian royal family.
Queen
Marie married her first husband in 1340,
Constantine III, King of Armenia
Constantine III (also Constantine V; french: Constantin V d'Arménie; hy, Կոստանդին, Western Armenian transliteration: ''Gosdantin'' or ''Kostantine''; April 17, 1313 – December 21, 1362) was the King of Armenian Cilicia from 134 ...
. From this marriage she became Queen consort.
Both sons died in childhood and neither succeeded their father. They are named by their father in a contemporary manuscript which records a donation to the convent of Sis in memory of his sons Oshin and Lewon.
Armenia, Medieval Lands
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On her husband's death on December 21, 1362, he was succeeded by his cousin Constantine IV, King of Armenia
Constantine IV (also Constantine VI; hy, Կոստանդին, Western Armenian transliteration: ''Gosdantin'' or ''Kostantine''; died 1373) was the King of Armenian Cilicia from 1362 until his death. He was the son of Hethum of Neghir, a nephew o ...
. Maria married the new King of Armenia but they had no children. Maria died before 1405.
Issue
With Constantine III, King of Armenia
Constantine III (also Constantine V; french: Constantin V d'Arménie; hy, Կոստանդին, Western Armenian transliteration: ''Gosdantin'' or ''Kostantine''; April 17, 1313 – December 21, 1362) was the King of Armenian Cilicia from 134 ...
:
*Oshin (d. 1356), died young
*Lewon (1338 – before 1357), died young
References
Bibliography
* T.S.R. Boase, editor. ''The Cicilian Kingdom of Armenia.'' Scottish Academic Press, 1978.
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Armenian queens consort
1321 births
Year of death unknown
Hethumid dynasty
14th-century Armenian people
14th-century Armenian women
15th-century Armenian people
15th-century Armenian women