Principality of Gelam

The Principality of Gelam was a short lived Armenian client state of Constantinople. In 1181, it fell into civil war, and was conquered by the neighbouring principality, Syunik. Prince Gurgen of Gelam was one of the Armenian lords who crowned Smbat of Syunik King of Kings at Ani in 1197. The principality is not directly heard of thereafter, though evidence strongly suggests that the wife of Smbat's heir Roupen II hailed from Gelam.