Reign 1342–1344 Father Amalric of Tyre Predecessor Levon IV Name Constantine King | Successor Constantine III Died April 17, 1344 House Hethumids Children Isabelle de Lusignan | |
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Parents Amalric, Prince of Tyre, Isabella of Armenia, Princess of Tyre Grandparents Leo II, King of Armenia, Hugh III of Cyprus Great-grandparents Hethum I, King of Armenia, Isabella, Queen of Armenia, Henry of Antioch, Isabella of Cyprus People also search for Leo II, King of Armenia | ||
Constantine II (Armenian: Կոստանդին Բ), (also Constantine IV; Western Armenian transliteration: Gosdantin or Kostantine; died 17 April 1344), born Guy de Lusignan, was elected the first Latin King of Armenian Cilicia of the Poitiers-Lusignan dynasty, ruling from 1342 until his death in 1344.
He was a son of Isabella, daughter of Leo II of Armenia, and Amalric, a son of Hugh III of Cyprus, and was made Governor of Serres in 1328 and until 1341. When his cousin Leo IV, the last Hethumid monarch of Cilicia, was murdered by the barons, the crown was offered to his younger brother John, who urged Guy to accept it. Guy was reluctant — his mother and two of his brothers had been murdered by the Armenian regent Oshin of Corycos — but he eventually accepted and took the name Constantine.
Guy was killed or murdered in an uprising in Armenia on April 17, 1344 and was succeeded by a distant cousin, Constantine III. He had married twice, firstly in Constantinople c. 1318 or 1318 to a Kantakouzene (died c. 1330), without issue, and secondly in 1330–1332, Theodora Syrgiannaina (died 1347/1349), sister of the pinkernes ("cupbearer") Syrgiannes Palaiologos Philanthropenos, with whom he fathered two children. One of them