George V of Armenia [SEP] place of birth
George V of Armenia
George V of Armenia (in Armenian Գևորգ Ե. Սուրենյանց (Տփղիսեցի) (28 August 1847, Tiflis – 8 May 1930, Etchmiadzin, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic) was the Catholicos of All Armenians of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin from 1911–1930. He succeeded Catholicos Matthew II (in Armenian Մատթեոս Բ Կոստանդնուպոլսեց), who had died on 11 December 1910 after less than three years as Catholicos.
Biography.
Born in Tiflis, he studied between 1865 and 1868 at
of Armenia is included in the collection known as "Recueil des Historiens des Croisades". According to a passage recording her birth, Rita was the twin sister of Princess Theophane of Armenia.
The history of George Pachymeres records that Andronikos II Palaiologos began negotiations with Levon while seeking a potential wife for his son and junior co-ruler Michael IX Palaiologos. Levon offered him Rita, and the marriage took place on 16 January 1294. The bride was sixteen years old and the groom seventeen.
Rita assumed the name "