Item: i8439
 
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ARMENIA - Hetoum I - King: 1226-1270 A.D.
Copper Kardez 22mm (4.5 grams) Ayas mint: 1226-1270 A.D.
Reference: Nercessian 364
Obv.: King seated on bench-like throne.
Clockwise legend, (Hetoum king of the Armenians).
Rev.: Potent cross with four lines in four quadrants.
Clockwise legend, (struck in the city of Sis).

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HETOUM I
(1226-1270)

In 1226, with the consent of catholicos (supreme patriarch) of the Armenian Church and the nobility, Zabel was married to Hetoum, son of Gosdantin Bailie of the House of Lampron. The reign of Hetoum was the longest of all the rulers of Cilician Armenia. In 1233, Sultan Kaiqobad of Iconium invaded Cilicia. Hetoum made peace with the Seljuks and struck bilingual coins to mark the treaty.

Around this time, the Mongols started invading Transcaucasia and Asia Minor. They swept through Armenia proper and Georgia during 1235-1242. The Mongols were approaching the borders of Cilician Armenia. Hetoum recognized that only an alliance with the Mongols could save his kingdom. First, he sent his brother Constable Smpad to Karakorum. In 1253, Hetoum himself went to Asia to visit the Great Mangou Khan. In 1257, Houlagu Khan advanced as far as center of Asia Minor and then captured Baghdad in 1258. Nothing but ruin remained in the wake of the Mongol conquerors. Hetoum's wisdom saved Cilician Armenia from complete destruction.

After the Mongol power faded in Asia Minor and Syria, the Ar-menians and Christian principalities experienced invasions from the Egyptian Mamluks. While Hetoum was visiting the Ilkhanid court in Iran, Baybars, the Mamluk sultan of Egypt, attacked Cilician Armenia in 1266. Hetoum's sons Levon and Toros raised an army to meet the enemy. Toros was killed and Levon was taken prisoner. Hetoum obtained peace from the enemy but the terms were heavy. As soon as the captive prince returned home, Hetoum relinquished the crown in favor of his son and withdrew to a monastery, where he died in 1270.


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