The history of New Armenia also witnessed the Vatican, the court of the pope, and the Armenian court in cooperation. Arguably the Vatican did everything in its political power to strengthen New Armenia.
Indeed, this period in New Armenia is closely related with the names of certain popes, such as Célestin II and Innocentius II, who became official protectors of Levon II, introduced him to the courts of the western regents, and supported him extensively.
King Levon II, whose ultimate aim was the creation of unity between the Armenian and the western nations, tried to realize the wish of the pope of union between the Armenian and the Catholic Churches. In this task, however, he, like his successors, met with the strong resistance of the fanatic love of the Armenian religious leaders and the people towards the Armenian church and its customs and traditions.
Apart from the Armenian soldiers who fought in the Roman army against the Germans, the New Armenia.
As we have mentioned, Fredrik Barbarossa, the German emperor, had high hopes for Armenia in his great plan for recreating the Roman Empire. When Henry VI, son of Fredrik Barbarossa, in gratitude for the assistance afforded to his father, sent the royal crown to Levon II, the emperor of Germany became the guardian of New Armenia. This relation between New Armenia and the German Empire became even stronger with the relations between New Armenia and the Knights of the Teutonic order and their allies.
Finally, from an economic point of view, the direct relation between New Armenia and Italy during the last centuries of the Middle Ages, when all trade- and technical institutions such as banks, checks, discounts for prepaying, financing and accounting were being created, institutions which since then have guided the business of all nations, afforded a valuable education in trade which explains the role which Armenia played in the economic sphere of the Orient.
In conclusion, the epoch of New Armenia had great significance as through its close relations with the Medieval western Europe the Armenian people were exposed to elements which Byzantine and other countries emulated but never met, the knights, the customs, the troubadours, the western religious, philosophical and judicial schools.
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