death_date regent birth_date reign father house death_place image_size coronation spouse image name caption predecessor succession birth_place issue successor mother religion article_title
23 january 1252 adam of baghras constantine of barbaron 27 january 1216 / 25 january 1217 1219 -- 1252 leo i roupenians ked 200px 14 may 1226 philip of antioch hethum i hetoum and zabel.jpeg isabella i queen isabella i with hethum i on a coin leo i queen of cilician armenia -lrb- unknown -rrb- euphemia maria sybille rita leo ii thoros isabella hethum i sybille of cyprus armenian orthodox isabella , queen of armenia

isabella , queen of armenia

isabella i -lrb- -rrb- , also isabel i or zabel i , -lrb- 27 january 1216 / 25 january 1217 -- 23 january 1252 -rrb- was the queen regnant of cilician armenia -lrb- 1219 -- 1252 -rrb- .
she was proclaimed queen under the regency of adam of baghras .
but he was assassinated ; and constantine of baberon -lrb- of the hethumian family -rrb- was nominated as guardian .
at this juncture , raymond-roupen , grandson of roupen iii -lrb- the elder brother of isabella 's father , king leo i -rrb- 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 -lrb- now `` kozan '' in turkey -rrb- , 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 -lrb- `` i.e. '' , the roupenids and the hethumids -rrb- ended a century of dynastic and territorial rivalry and brought the hethumids to the forefront of political dominance in cilician armenia .
