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The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon in the Twelfth Century- Front Cover 1 The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon in the Twelfth Century 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of illustrations 9 Figures 9 Map 9 Preface 10 Acknowledgements 11 List of abbreviations 13 Introduction: sons of Saint-Gilles 16 Historiography 18 Provençal or Occitan? 21 Notes 23 Chapter 1: The succession of cousins: Counts Raymond I (1103–5), William Jordan (1105–9) and Bertrand (1109–12) 27 Introduction 27 Diplomacy and religion 29 Ambition in the north 33 The siege of Tripoli and the Pilgrims’ Mount 37 The death of a crusader 40 Enter William Jordan 41 William Jordan’s achievement 45 Enter Bertrand 49 The council of Tripoli (1109) 54 The four crusader states? 56 The bipartite Latin East 59 The fall of Tripoli and its aftermath 64 Jubayl, Genoa and Islam 68 The Jerusalemite fief 72 Conclusion 74 Notes 75 Chapter 2: The forging and freedom of the county: Count Pons (1112–37) 87 Introduction 87 Maternal ambiguity 88 Pons’s minority 90 The regency committee 92 Occitan–Norman rapprochement 95 The persistence of a bipartite Latin East 98 The question of Jubayl 101 Genoese, Occitan and ‘Frankish’

Author

Lewis, Kevin James;

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