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Mleh I ((アルメニア語:Մլեհ)), also Meleh I,〔 (before 1120 – Sis, May 15, 1175)〔 was the eighth lord of Armenian Cilicia〔 or “Lord of the Mountains”〔 (1170–1175).〔 The accomplishments during the reign of his elder brother, Thoros II placed Cilicia on a firm footing.〔 But Mleh, whom Thoros II had expelled from Cilicia for embracing the Muslim faith, almost undid his brother’s work.〔 On the death of his brother, Mleh invaded Cilicia with the support of a contingent from Aleppo, which remained in his service and assisted him to drive out the Knights Templar and Greeks from the fortresses and, in 1173, the cities which they held in Cilicia. Soon after the death of Nur ed-Din (the ''emir'' of Aleppo),〔 Mleh was overthrown by his nephew, Roupen III.〔 ==His early life== Thoros was the fourth son of Leo I, lord of Armenian Cilicia.〔 The name and the origin of his mother are not known with certainty.〔 It is possible that she was a daughter of Count Hugh I of Rethel, or she may have been the daughter of Gabriel of Melitene.〔 In the early summer of 1137, the Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos came to Cilicia with a full force on his way to take Antioch; his army successively took Seleucia, Korikos, Tarsus, Mamistra, Adana, Tel Hamdoun (now ''Toprakkale'' in Turkey) and Anazarbus.〔 Mleh and his two brothers, Stephen and the blind Constantine took refuge with their cousin, Count Joscelin II of Edessa.〔 In Cilicia, the family castle of Vahka (today ''Feke'' in Turkey) held out for some weeks, but after its fall their father and two of their brothers, Roupen and Thoros, were captured.〔 Leo I and his two sons were imprisoned in Constantinople where Leo I died shortly afterwards, and Roupen was blinded and later murdered.〔 All Cilicia remained under Byzantine rule for eight years. About the year 1143, Mleh’s brother, Thoros escaped from Constantinople and recaptured the family stronghold of Vahka; Mleh and his brother Stephen joined him.〔 One after another, Thoros reconquered Anazarbus, Adana, Sis (today ''Kozan'' in Turkey) and Pardzerpert (now ''Andırın'' in Turkey) from the Byzantines.〔 In 1164, Nur ed-Din struck at the Principality of Antioch and laid siege to the key-fortress of Harenc; Prince Bohemond III of Antioch called upon Thoros II to come to his rescue, and Mleh followed his brother.〔 At the news of the coming of the Byzantine and Armenian troops, Nur ed-Din raised the siege, but Bohemond III decided to follow in pursuit; the armies made contact on 10 August, near Artah.〔 In the ensuing battle, Bohemond III fell into an ambush and found himself and his knights surrounded by the army of Mosul, but Thoros II and Mleh, who had been more cautious, escaped from the battlefield.〔 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「Mleh, Prince of Armenia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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