Baluni

The house Baluni (Բալունի) & de Lavoies (դե Լավուա) Lords of the Principality of Taron and Kings of mount Cilicia was a region and family of the old Armenia c. From 400 ad to the present. Baluni or Paluni were a family of Armenians from the Ministerial lands in Balahovit (Bolbitine) and Tsopk Sofine : branch also had lands in Vaspurakan. The princes of Paluni were a remnant of the territorial dominion of the people of Lope or Puli of the Hittite annals, situated between Astyan and Taron ; another remnant was the Prince of balabitena. In 439, when the Taron West pass of Gregory-Rides passed to the Mamikonians, Palunik, which may have been a dependency of Gregory-rides, it became the property of the new lords. It was then that the branch emigrated to Vaspurakan where it would create a small domain which it named Paluniq or Baluniq.

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Raymond de Lavoies

Change surnames stems with those that descendants in different historical moments accounted for to change from Persecutions'that would survive to example Khachatryan surname just 100 years ago as emerged family from-for persecutions in 1915 baluni in Ottoman Empire were large merchants living in city of mush and Adana and de Lavoie stems with those that in times of Existence Cilicia of Armenia a noble young lady from kind of Baluni Katarine married for knight from France which settled in Cilicia from-for unsuccessful last crusade not was able to return in time in France end settled in Cilicia where and so lived many Franco-Armenians the only that known about him that his a Raymond and surname de Lavoie 1229-1317 rather connected with those that he was from Villages or of the castle Lavoie in France.

A Phoenix is born on the remains of the former Kingdom: From the book History of Cilicia by Sukiasyan, 1969, p. 93 Historians usually consider the end of the Armenian Kingdom to be 1375, when the Egyptians captured the capital of Cilicia and established an Emirate there. However, according to reports, and after that one of the French-Armenian princes named Constantine de Lavoie (son of Raymond de Lavoie and Catharine Balouni) declared himself king and for another 48 years continued to rule a number of areas of the country. It was not until 1424 that the Sultan of Egypt went to war against him, defeated him, and took possession of Cilicia. Therefore, the date of the fall of the Armenian state should be considered 1424 you need to understand that the descendants of Constantine after the capture of Cilicia changed their names and the name of his grandmother, Catharine in order to stay alive in the flesh to the Genocide of the descendants of Constantine were living with this family and were major merchants in the City of mush ( Taron) but after the defense mush where the local militia could not win Baluni fled to Georgia and the First Republic of Armenia under the Names Khachatryan but would not be caught by the Turkish gendarmes and soldiers eventually some settled in the Region of Shirak in Gyumri and the other in Tiflis where they live today after the collapse of the USSR live in Moscow. Naharar named Varaz Shapuh is mentioned closer to 445 and Artak Paluni, he participated in the National uprising of 451 along with another Varaz Shapuh, probably different from the first. Despite the defeat 480 g returned to dominate the land Palenica when Papale, but probably subordinate to Byzantium. And in Paluni is mentioned as naharar in 506. The ruler about 445 was Varazchapuh Baluni; in 451 Arzak Baluni and Varaz Chapuh; in 480 Phapal Baluni; and in 605 Varaz Baluni. The descendants of this dynasty live in Russia and Armenia. The current head of the house "Vanik Khachatryan”