King Léon VI de Lusignan of Armenia (d. 1393)

Léon VI de Lusignan, king of Armenia from 1374 to 1375, son of Jean de Lusignan. Chased out of his kingdom by the armies of the Mameluke Sultan of Egypt, who at that time controlled both Egypt and Syria, he was taken prisoner by the Emir of Aleppo and incarcerated in Cairo in 1375. He gained his freedom on 7 October 1382 thanks to the intervention of Clement VII and the Juan I, king of Castile (who gave him the lordships of Madrid, Villareal and Andujar). He died at Calais in 1393 and was interred at the abbey of Saint-Denis. He had arrived in Paris in 1384.

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For further details see F. Autrand, Charles VI, Fayard (Paris, 1986), p. 144.

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