County of Tripoli

Situation

The county of Tripoli was one of the Latin States of the East founded to the favor of the First crusade. It was located on the territory of current the Lebanon - mauve on the chart opposite and remained of 1102 to 1258.

History

They are only several years after the constitution of the others Latin States of the East which was created this county. Raymond of Saint-Gilles started by seizing the fortress of Tortose (1102). It vainly tried to seize Homs in the back country, on the course of the Oronte, citadel whose possession would have made it possible at the state to longer exist.

It put the seat in front of Tripoli in 1104, but the city resisted several years, because supplied by sea by the Egyptians. Raymond died in 1105, and his/her cousin Guillaume the Jordan succeeded to him. The seat was still finished only ariva of Europe Bertrand, the son of Raymond de Saint Gilles who disputed in Guillaume the possession of the county. Baudouin Ier king de Jérusalem came with all its army to arbitrate the litigation. These reinforcements allowed the catch of the city (July 12th 1109). Baudouin Ier solved the succession of Tripoli by dividing the county into two, but the assassination of Guillaume 1110 made it possible Bertrand to reunify the county. Its descendants directed the county until in 1187, and the county passed then to the princes d' Antioche.

The franque population of the county was mainly made up of Croisés originating in the South of France and of Italy. Latin States of the East, it was the only one where one spoke the Langue about oc, contrary to the others which spoke the language about oil, also the domination about Norman of Antioche was badly accepted. The 13th century was strewn with intrigues of revolts and assassination. He saw even the lord Gibelet to insult his suzerain with the doors of Tripoli. The last countess, Lucie was deposited in 1288 and Tripoli became an autonomous commune under the protectorate of Genoa.

The Francs were worried much about their internal quarrels than of the progression of the Mamelouk S. Those reflect the seat in front of the city in February 1289 and took it on April 27th, 1289.

Counts of Tripoli

See the List of the counts de Tripoli

Principal strongholds

The county was composed of the following strongholds:

the county of Tripoli itself
the county of Montferrand
seigniories of:

Botron
Buissera
Calmont
White Chastel
Red Chastel
Fountains
Gibelacar
Gibelet
Stuck the
Puy
Moinetre
Nephin
Raisagium Montanée
Terra Galifa
Tokle
Tortose Maraclée
the Krak of the Knights

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