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{{Infobox monarch
| name            =Roupen II<br>Ռուբեն Բ
| title           =Lord of Cilicia
| image           =
| succession    =[[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|Lord of Armenian Cilicia]]
| reign         =1169–1170
| predecessor     =[[Thoros II, Prince of Armenia|Thoros II]]
| successor       =[[Mleh, Prince of Armenia|Mleh I]]
| spouse         =
| issue          =
| house          =[[Rubenids|Roupenians]]
| father         =[[Thoros II, Prince of Armenia|Thoros II]]
| mother         =An ''unnamed'' daughter of Regent [[Thomas, Regent of Cilicia|Thomas]]
| birth_date  ={{circa}} 1165
| birth_place =
| death_date  =1170
| death_place =[[Hromgla]]
| place of burial=
}}

'''Ruben II'''{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} ({{langx|hy|Ռուբեն Բ}}), also '''Roupen II'''<ref name='Ghazarian'>{{cite book | last = Ghazarian | first = Jacob G. | title = The Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia during the Crusades: The Integration of Cilician Armenians with the Latins (1080–1393)}}</ref><ref name='Runciman'>{{cite book | last = Runciman | first = Steven | title = A History of the Crusades – Volume II.: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East: 1100–1187}}</ref> or '''Rupen II''',{{CN|date=June 2023}} ({{circa}} 1165&ndash;1170) was the seventh [[King of Cilicia|lord of Armenian Cilicia]]<ref name='Ghazarian'/> (1169–1170).{{CN|date=June 2023}}

Roupen was the son of [[Thoros II, Prince of Armenia|Thoros II, lord of Armenian Cilicia]], by his second wife (and great niece) whose name is unknown.{{CN|date=June 2023}} (Thomas was the child’s maternal grandfather).{{CN|date=June 2023}} However, Thoros II’s brother, [[Mleh, Prince of Armenia|Mleh]] disputed the succession; Mleh had fled to [[Nur ad-Din Zangi|Nur ad-Din]] (the emir of [[Aleppo]]) and become a [[Islam|Muslim]] after quarreling with Thoros II and attempting to assassinate him.<ref name='Runciman'/>

{{Quote|Thoros left a child under age, whom he committed, together with the country, to the care of a certain Baron and Baillie Thomas, his father-in-law, with an injunction to deliver to him the country as soon as the child should have attained his majority. Mleh (…) was with the Sultan of Aleppo, and hearing of the death of his brother he came with an army into the country, and dealt very cruelly with its inhabitants. Not being able to conquer the possessions of his brother he returned to Aleppo, and came back with still greater forces. Receiving a message from the Armenian Barons that they would freely acknowledge him as their sovereign, he sent back the Turks, and governed in peace for some time. But he soon drove into exile the Baillie Thomas, who went afterwards to Antioch. The child of Thoros was killed by the command of Mleh by some wicked people.|[[Sempad the Constable|Smbat Sparapet]]: ''Chronicle''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rbedrosian.com/cssint.htm|title=Chronicle|publisher=Robert Bedrosian’s Homepage|work=History Workshop: Armenian Historical Sources of the 5th–15th Centuries (Selected Works)|year=2005|author=Smbat Sparapet (Sempad the Constable)|accessdate=2009-07-21}}</ref>}}

== Footnotes ==
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== Sources ==
*Ghazarian, Jacob G: ''The Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia during the Crusades: The Integration of Cilician Armenians with the Latins (1080–1393)''; RoutledgeCurzon (Taylor & Francis Group), 2000, Abingdon; {{ISBN|0-7007-1418-9}}
*{{Runciman-A History of the Crusades|volume=2}}

==External links==
* [http://rbedrosian.com/cssint.htm Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle]

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