Baluni

The house Baluni (Բալունի) & de Lavúa (դե Լավուա) ( Де Лавуа)Lords of the Principality of Taron and Baron's of House de Lavúa was a region and family of the Byzantine Empire c. From 400 ad to the present. Baluni or Paluni were a family of Italians from Naples and Gallo-Romains from Galatia the Ministerial lands in (Bolbitine) and Tsopk Sofine and in Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia : 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 his a(greeks), 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.

Hereditary family coat of arms : De Lavoie

Coat of Arms of House Bagratuni

After the re-division of Armenia, Western Armenia became part of Byzantium, and the dynasty, which had lost its domains in Toron, Soon after Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia became independent from Byzantium, the dynasty began to supply the army and then the kings of Cilicia, during the beginning of the second rusade, a trader of named Raymond Lavua(Lavùa) from Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia his ancestors from Kingdom of France French people went on a campaign in the hope of obtaining domains in the kingdom of Jerusalem, but ironically approaching Cyprus, he was captured by Cilician pirates Arabs along with all the crew, during the same period, there was a sea patrol of Cilicia to scout the area from sea raids from pirates As a result, thanks to a random comparison in detail, Raymond and the crew of four knights were saved and he was transported to Cilicia to meet King Levon II, soon Rameo became a knight in the service of the King also for his services to the king for participating in the battle of Alexandretta from the Antioch warrior received the title with the prefix "de" as the French barons and granted the family coat of arms In the form of French lilies with the image of a Lion, also he was married to the last representative of the Baluni family Katarina, after which a son Alexander was born who bore the title of Paron Lavois & nakharar of Taron, descendants of Alexander live to this day in Russia and Armenia.