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Isabella I ((アルメニア語:Զապել)), also Isabel I or Zabel I, ( 27 January 1216/ 25 January 1217 – 23 January 1252) was the queen regnant of Cilician Armenia (1219–1252).〔 She was proclaimed queen under the regency of Adam of Baghras.〔 But he was assassinated; and Constantine of Baberon (of the Hethumian family) was nominated as guardian.〔 At this juncture, Raymond-Roupen, grandson of Roupen III (the elder brother of Isabella’s father, King Leo I)〔 set up a claim to the throne of Cilician Armenia; but he was defeated, captured, and executed.〔 Constantine of Barbaron was soon convinced to seek an alliance with Prince Bohemond IV of Antioch,〔 and he arranged a marriage between the young princess and Philip,〔 a son of Bohemond IV.〔 Philip, however, offended the Armenians’ sensibilities, and even despoiled the royal palace, sending the royal crown to Antioch; therefore, he was confined in a prison in Sis (now ''Kozan'' in Turkey), where he died, presumably poisoned.〔 The unhappy young Isabella was forced to marry Constantine of Barbaron’s son, Hethum; although for many years she refused to live with him, but in the end she relented.〔 The apparent unification in marriage of the two principal dynastic forces of Cilicia (''i.e.'', the Roupenids and the Hethumids) ended a century of dynastic and territorial rivalry and brought the Hethumids to the forefront of political dominance in Cilician Armenia.〔 ==Early years== Isabella was the only child of King Leo I by his second wife, Sybille of Cyprus.〔 She was betrothed to Andrew, the third son of King Andrew II of Hungary in 1218, but the betrothal later broken in favor of a more advantageous Russian marriage of her bridegroom. King Leo I died on May, 1219.〔 On his death-bed, he named Isabella as his heiress;〔 and released the barons from their oath of allegiance to his great-nephew, Raymond-Roupen.〔 But the claim of his five-year-old daughter was contested by Raymond-Roupen and by John of Brienne.〔 Isabella emerged as the favourite of the ruling Armenian nobles and thus she was proclaimed queen by acclamation and placed under the regency of Adam of Baghras.〔 But Adam of Baghras was murdered after a few months;〔 and the regency passed to the only remaining influential Armenian house, that of the Hethumian family whose head was Constantine of Barbaron.〔 John of Brienne’s claim was based on his marriage to Leo I’s older daughter Rita (Stephanie).〔 Pope Honorius III recognized John of Brienne’s claim that his wife or her son should succeed.〔 John of Brienne received the Pope’s permission to leave the Crusade and visit Cilician Armenia in February, 1220.〔 But as he prepared to sail for Cilicia his Armenian wife died; and when their small son died a few weeks later, John of Brienne had no further claim on the Armenian throne.〔 Raymond-Roupen laid claim to the throne by virtue of lineage through his mother Alice, the niece of King Leo I.〔 Moreover, he had long been considered as King Leo I’s heir.〔 Raymond-Roupen approached the crusaders at Damietta in 1219 for support in claiming Cilician Armenia, and was able to return in 1221 with some of them and promises from the Papal legate Pelagius.〔 Raymond-Roupen found some Armenian support in and around Tarsus, notably Vahram, the castellan of Corycus.〔 Together they conquered from Tarsus to Adana, but then met reverses and were forced to retire to Tarsus where Raymond-Roupen was captured and ended his days in prison in 1222;〔 his infant daughters retired with their mother to Cyprus.〔 This event left Isabella the sole and largely incontestable heir to her father’s throne.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isabella, Queen of Armenia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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