The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon in the Twelfth Century: Sons of Saint-Gilles

The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon in the Twelfth Century- Front Cover
The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon in the Twelfth Century
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
	Figures
	Map
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: sons of Saint-Gilles
	Historiography
	Provençal or Occitan?
	Notes
Chapter 1: The succession of cousins: Counts Raymond I (1103–5), William Jordan (1105–9) and Bertrand (1109–12)
	Introduction
	Diplomacy and religion
	Ambition in the north
	The siege of Tripoli and the Pilgrims’ Mount
	The death of a crusader
	Enter William Jordan
	William Jordan’s achievement
	Enter Bertrand
	The council of Tripoli (1109)
	The four crusader states?
	The bipartite Latin East
	The fall of Tripoli and its aftermath
	Jubayl, Genoa and Islam
	The Jerusalemite fief
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: The forging and freedom of the county: Count Pons (1112–37)
	Introduction
	Maternal ambiguity
	Pons’s minority
	The regency committee
	Occitan–Norman rapprochement
	The persistence of a bipartite Latin East
	The question of Jubayl
	Genoese, Occitan and ‘Frankish’ identity
	Slide to autonomy
	The fall of Tyre
	Wars in the east
	Waves of sedition
	A narrow road to independence
	Changes to the north
	Defeat, sedition and the counter-crusade
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3: Military decline and matrimonial discord: Count Raymond II (1137–52)
	Introduction
	Treachery on the mountain
	Cut off and cut down
	The Latin East on the brink
	Byzantine pretensions
	Medieval outsourcing
	Crusade, competition and kinship
	The belated return of a son of Saint-Gilles
	Scandal at ʿUrayma
	Consequences in Occitania and Tripoli
	The Templars of Tripoli
	The passing of Edessa
	The maritime frontier
	The second council of Tripoli and the return of royal authority
	Matrimonial strife
	A brutal death, a brutal response
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4: Count and captive: Count Raymond III (1152–74)
	Introduction
	A succession crisis averted
	Sole rule, seismic opportunism and a disappointing crusade
	The Cistercians of Syria
	International relations
	Matrimonial diplomacy
	Battling and bluffing
	The king is dead
	Captivity at Ḥārim
	A royal regency
	Freedom, orthodoxy and power in Antioch
	Shaken and shattered
	The ‘conversion’ of the Assassins
	Freedom once more
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 5: The regent thwarted: Count Raymond III (1174–87)
	Introduction
	The claim to regency
	Friends, factions and land
	Ill-advised negotiations
	Crusading controversy
	Subversion and raiding from Tripoli
	The unwelcome wedding guests
	Invasion and incompetence
	A ‘multiplicity of affairs’
	A cold welcome
	Tantamount to treachery
	Raymond’s second regency
	Crowning controversy
	A troubadour’s nostalgia
	High treason
	Ḥaṭṭīn
	Death of a count
	An evil reputation
	Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion: alien and native
	Notes
Appendices
	Appendix 1: Sources
	Appendix 2: Troubadour poetry and Tripoli
Bibliography
Index