ABSTRACT
During most of the 13th century Cilician Armenia had become an open battlefield between the warring Mongols and the Mamluks. By 1375 Sis and Anazarba were also taken, which in effect retired the memory of the small kingdom of Cilician Armenia into the annals of history. The epileptic Henry had been usurped by his brother Amaury de Lusignan (both sons of Hugh III of Antioch) and exiled to Sis to be kept under the care of King Oshin I, whose sister Isabel was married to Amaury. The demise of the Latin East at the hands of the Muslims in 1291 confined the influence of the Christian Church in the eastern Mediterranean to two remaining Christian states: Cyprus and Cilician Armenia. The kingdom of Cyprus had reached the zenith of its political power by the time Peter I, the son of Maria d’Ibelin and his unremarkable father Hugh IV, came to the throne in 1359.
