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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Godfrey of Bouillon
		Raymond IV, of St-Gilles, Count of Toulouse, to swear fealty to the emperor.
		Jaffa (Joppa), the city of Jerusalem, and the tower of
		Jaffa, which became a port of arrival for crusaders.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06624b.htm (1720 words)

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		The capture of Jerusalem and its port of Jaffa began the establishment of a western colony in the east.
		As they marched to Ascalon only a month after the fall of the city, he tells us that the army had shrunk to 9,000 foot and barely 1,200 knights; the siege cost the crusade almost a quarter of its fighting strength.
		Ferald, viscount of Thouars, was evidently in the Provencal contingent for he went with the count of Toulouse to witness Peter Bartholemew's revelation of the Holy Lance, yet he was a oitevin whose ancestor had followed William the Conqueror in the Hastings campaign.
	coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/hst372/readings/france1.html (0 words)

	thePeerage.com - Colonel Harold Paget and others
		Joscelin II, Count of Edessa is the son of Joscelin I, Count of Edessa and Maria of Salerno.
		She married, firstly, William VII de Montferrat, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon circa November 1176.
		William VII de Montferrat, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon b.
	www.thepeerage.com /p823.htm (0 words)

	chronological 1100 - 1149
		Raymond IV of Toulouse, count of Tripoli, captures Ankara from the Seljuk Turks.
		Count Raymond of Tripoli is killed, but Count Fulk is able to escape to the Crusader castle of Montferrand which Zengi had been besieging.
		Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona, with the aid of an English fleet, captures the Moor city of Tortosa.
	www.allcrusades.com /CHRONOLOGICAL/chrono-1100-1149.html (4667 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: William of Tyre: Deeds Done Beyond the Sea
		After the people of Ascalon had witnessed the slaughter of their men and had felt the heavy hand which the Lord had laid upon them, their sorrow and anxiety of spirit was renewed and their spirits were flooded with a vast grief.
		The sixth of the Latin kings of Jerusalem was the lord Baldwin IV, son of the lord King Amalric of illustrious memory and of the Countess Agnes, daughter of the younger Count Jocelin of Edessa.
		The latter group asserted publicly that the aforesaid Count was not equal to the burden of administration and that be was not qualified to conduct the affairs of the Kingdom.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/tyre-cde.html (16596 words)

	Roma:History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At Clermont, in the territories of the count of Auvergne, ^13 the pope might brave with impunity the resentment of Philip; and the council which he convened in that city was not less numerous or respectable than the synod of Placentia.
		Stephen, count of Chartres, of Blois, and of Troyes, was one of the richest princes of the age; and the number of his castles has been compared to the three hundred and sixty-five days of the year.
		Two of their most respectable chiefs, the duke of Lorraine and the count of Tholouse, were carried in litters: Raymond was raised, as it is said by miracle, from a hopeless malady; and Godfrey had been torn by a bear, as he pursued that rough and perilous chase in the mountains of Pisidia.
	libweb.zju.edu.cn:8080 /yy/text/libls/roma/58.htm (17777 words)

	County of Jaffa and Ascalon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The double County of Jaffa and Ascalon was one of the four major seigneuries comprising the major crusader state, the Kingdom of Jerusalem, according to 13th-century commentator John of Ibelin.
		Jaffa was fortified by Godfrey of Bouillon after the First Crusade in 1100, and was unsuccessfully claimed by Daimbert of Pisa, the first Patriarch.
		With the capture of Jaffa by Baibars in 1268, the county became titular.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/County_of_Jaffa_and_Ascalon (464 words)

	John of Ibelin (jurist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John of Ibelin (1215 – December 1266), count of Jaffa and Ascalon, was a noted jurist and the author of the longest legal treatise from the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
		Shortly thereafter, sometime between 1246 and the beginning of the Seventh Crusade, John became count of Jaffa and Ascalon and lord of Ramla.
		Ramla was an old holding of the Ibelins, but Jaffa and Ascalon had belonged to others, most recently to the murdered Walter IV of Brienne, whose son John of Brienne (king Henry's nephew) was supplanted by this Ibelin acquisition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_of_Ibelin_(jurist) (833 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Ibelin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With Alice of MontbÃ©liard, Philip was the father of John of Ibelin, count of Jaffa and Ascalon, regent of Jerusalem, and author of the Assizes of the Haute Cour of Jerusalem, the most important legal document from the crusader kingdom.
		Hugh of Ibelin, count of Jaffa, married Isabella of Ibelin
		Marie of Ibelin, heiress of the titular county of Jaffa, married Renier LePetit, titular count of Jaffa
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Ibelin (1329 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/County of Jaffa and Ascalon
		The double County of Jaffa and Ascalon was one of the four major seigneuries comprising the major crusader state, the Kingdom of Jerusalem, according to 13th-century commentator John of Ibelin.
		Jaffa was fortified by Godfrey of Bouillon after the First Crusade in 1100, and was unsuccessfully claimed by Daimbert of Pisa, the first Patriarch.
		With the capture of Jaffa by Baibars in 1268, the county became titular.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/County_of_Jaffa_and_Ascalon (479 words)

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		After the people of Ascalon had witnessed the slaughter of their men and had felt the heavy hand which the Lord had laid upon them, their sorrow and anxiety of spirit was renewed and their spirits were flooded with a vast grief.
		The sixth of the Latin kings of Jerusalem was the lord Baldwin IV, son of the lord King Amalric of illustrious memory and of the Countess Agnes, daughter of the younger Count Jocelin of Edessa.
		The latter group asserted publicly that the aforesaid Count was not equal to the burden of administration and that be was not qualified to conduct the affairs of the Kingdom.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/geoghist/histories/histdocts/Biblio12/A12/WilliamofTyre/tyre-latindisarray.html (9553 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Ascalon meant that Jerusalem was secure from immediate threat, that the nascent kingdom had a little time, at least, to grow.
		Count Raymond was killed on the battlefield, along with many of the Tripolitans, while King Fulk managed to escape with most of his army into Montferrand.
		Jaffa was too important to give up without a fight, so Henry summoned his vassals and organized a relieving force.
	the-orb.net /textbooks/crusade/jerusalem.html (16162 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Ascalon meant that Jerusalem was secure from immediate threat, that the nascent kingdom had a little time, at least, to grow.
		Count Raymond was killed on the battlefield, along with many of the Tripolitans, while King Fulk managed to escape with most of his army into Montferrand.
		Jaffa was too important to give up without a fight, so Henry summoned his vassals and organized a relieving force.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/crusade/jerusalem.html (16162 words)

	AR.net >> Discussion Forum >> RE: Is Smokey a Ph.D. in Biology?
		The French from the south, under the leadership of Raymond of Saint-Gilles, Count of Toulouse, and of Adhemar of Monteil, Bishop of Puy and papal legate, began to fight their way through the longitudinal valleys of the Eastern Alps and, after bloody conflicts with the Slavonians, reached Constantinople at the end of April, 1097.
		Constantinople and the empire were divided among the emperor, the Venetians, and the chief crusaders; the Marquis of Montferrat received Thessalonica and Macedonia, with the title of king; Henry of Flanders became Lord of Adramyttion; Louis of Blois was made Duke of NicÃ¦a, and fiefs were bestowed upon six hundred knights.
		The Count of Nevers and a great many lords became Bajazet's prisoners and were released only on condition of enormous ransoms.
	www.animalrights.net /67040 (14378 words)

	Lebanon and The Crusades (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jerusalem), Raymond IV of Saint Gilles (Count of Toulouse), Bohemond I (Bohemond the Norman), Tancred, Robert of Normandy, and Robert II of Flanders arrived early in 1097.
		Count Jocelyn, ruler of Edessa, and his kinsman Galeran were captured by him and thrown into prison.
		Tyre is counted as of the Jordan province.
	www.cedarland.org /crusleb.html (9162 words)

	Amalric I - Cunnan
		He was the second son of Queen Melisende and Fulk of Anjou, and was Count of Jaffa before his accession.
		In 1157 Amalric married the daughter of the Count of Edessa.
		Baldwin III died in 1162, childless -- Amalric was the heir, but the consanguinity argument reared his head again and, in order the succeed, he was obliged to have his marriage anulled (although the Church ruled their children legitimate).
	cunnan.sca.org.au /wiki/Amalric_I (434 words)

	Jerusalem
		He in turn was succeeded by his cousin, Baldwin II, who was followed by his son-in-law, Fulk V the Young, count of Anjou (1092-1143).
		Count of Jaffa and Ascalon; succeeded brother Baldwin III as king; struggled (1163-74) with Nureddin for control of Egypt, three times invading it; attacked by Saladin (1170); formed alliance with Byzantine empire.
		Son of Eustace II, count of Boulogne, and brother of Godfrey of Bouillon; accompanied Godfrey on First Crusade (1096-99); took Edessa (1098); elected by nobles to succeed Godfrey (1100); increased Latin kingdom by taking Acre (1104), and other coastal cities; built Krak de Montreal (1115).
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/jerusalem.htm (2263 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (chapter58)
		At Clermont, in the territories of the count of Auvergne,
		These counts, a younger branch of the dukes of Aquitain, were at length despoiled of the greatest part of their country by Philip Augustus.
		Stephen, count of Chartres, of Blois, and of Troyes, was one of the richest princes of the age; and the number of his castles has been compared to the three hundred and sixty-five days of the year.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /g/gibbon/edward/g43d/chapter58.html (18506 words)

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		His father was the elder Lord Eustace, the famous and splendid Count of that region, whose many and memorable works are still recalled by the old men of the neighboring provinces and his memory as a religious and Godfearing man is like a blessing" in the pious recollection of men.
		They were the Lord Baldwin, Count of Edessa, who succeeded Godfrey in the kingdom; and the Lord Eustace, Count of Boulogne, who was his father's namesake, successor to his father as Count and inheritor of the paternal estate…The third was Lord William, a famous man, no less virtuous and energetic than his father and brothers.
		The count of Tripoli was only vaguely interested in events so far to the east, and in Jerusalem, King Fulk bad just died, leaving the government in the hands of Queen Melisende as regent for their thirteen year old son, Baldwin III.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/geoghist/histories/histdocts/Biblio12/A12/WilliamofTyre/tyre-cde.html (16528 words)

	Raid by Count Peter of Brittany against Muslim lands in 1239
		Then the count himself and the rest of his men laid in wait at another spot where the convoy would pass, so that if one attack failed, the other must succeed.
		The count saw that his men were suffering and the unbelievers were doing as they liked with them; then he had a horn sounded.
		The count gave many of his beasts to the commanders of the host; some were very pleased and others were scornful and jealous because he had won so much plunder.
	www.deremilitari.org /RESOURCES/SOURCES/ctit4.htm (1893 words)

	Crusaders, Greeks, and Muslims by Sanderson Beck
		Count Baldwin conquered the Armenian princes in eastern Cilicia by 1115.
		That year bold Count Roger of Antioch did not wait for the forces of King Baldwin II and Pons of Tripoli, and his army was trapped by Il Ghazi's Turks and massacred on what was remembered as the Field of Blood.
		In 1122 Edessa count Joscelin and sixty men were captured by Belek, one of the successors to the realms of the dying Il Ghazi.
	www.san.beck.org /AB18-Crusaders.html (21728 words)

	Baldwin Iv Of Jerusalem info here at en.88of100d.info (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baldwin IV was corrected by the historian William of Tyre (later Archbishop of Tyre and Chancellor of the kingdom), who made a disturbing concurrence about the prince: he and cronies were comedying peculiar day, going to injure each another by pinching their arms, but Baldwin felt no pain.
		William dismounted in prime October, and was fathered Count of Jaffa and Ascalon on marriage.
		Count Raymond fled to Tyre, and the king's stepfather Reginald of Sidon rescued a of the fugitives, but the prisoners included the Grand Master, Baldwin of Ibelin, and Hugh of Tiberias, peculiar of Raymond of Tripoli's stepsons.
	en.88of100d.info /Baldwin_IV_of_Jerusalem (2172 words)

	Crusaders, Greeks, and Muslims by Sanderson Beck
		Count Baldwin conquered the Armenian princes in eastern Cilicia by 1115.
		That year bold Count Roger of Antioch did not wait for the forces of King Baldwin II and Pons of Tripoli, and his army was trapped by Il Ghazi's Turks and massacred on what was remembered as the Field of Blood.
		In 1122 Edessa count Joscelin and sixty men were captured by Belek, one of the successors to the realms of the dying Il Ghazi.
	san.beck.org /AB18-Crusaders.html (21728 words)

	The Mediadrome - History - Saladin
		Saladin easily took back Jaffa advising the Christian garrison still inside the citadel to stay put until he could personally rescue them.
		When word of the siege reached Richard, he sent some of his soldiers to Jaffa by land while he traveled there by sea.
		Ascalon was to be demolished so neither Christian nor Muslim could have it.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/history_articles/saladin.htm (2348 words)

	Discussion: 103. Ascalon - (Askalon)
		A bishop is also known in the Abbasid period: in 939 the Moslems set fire to the church of the Virgin called "the Green", and the bishop did not succeed afterward in rebuilding it.
		A native of Ascalon is the famous John Rufus, or John of Beith-Rufin, "an Arab from the south of Palestine" (Nau, PO 8, p.6), disciple of Peter the Iberian whom he succeeded as bishop of Maiuma.
		No tombstones have been found at Ascalon, as they were in other places; but near the former village of Jora, toward the north, a burial vault was discovered, whose plastered walls were decorated with painted crosses and Greek letters which are a bit enigmatic (see LA 22 [1972], pp.229-31).
	www.christusrex.org /www1/ofm/mad/discussion/103discuss.html (2928 words)

	The Shire of Vanished Wood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Roger, who was count of Calabria as well as of Sicily, seems to have worked on the indignation of his Christian subjects to arouse enthusiasm for an expedition against the Zirids, whom he represented as responsible for these misdeeds.
		He was accompanied by two of his uncles, Theobald, count of Blois, and Stephen, count of Sancerre, together with count Ralph of Clermont, count William of Chalon, count John of Ponthieu, and a number of important barons.
		Count Henry of Champagne had run out of funds, asked Philip for a loan, and received the answer that he could have the money as a mortgage on Champagne; Richard gave him the funds he needed.
	www.vanishedwood.org /castle/library/book.php?id=CrusadesII (22671 words)

	The Fantasy Forum - Kingdom of Heaven
		The count of Tripoli who led the advance guard at their arrival led the first division and was in front.
		Among those who escaped were the count of Tripoli and Raymond, son of the prince of Antioch, and the four sons of the lady of Tiberias.
		When the count saw that they were defeated he did not dare go to Tiberias which was only 2 miles away, for he feared that if he shut himself up in there and Saladin found out he could come and take him.
	www.thefantasyforum.com /printthread.php?t=7471 (6343 words)

	Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
		1194), count of Jaffa and Ascalon who was also appointed regent of the kingdom by the invalid Baudoin IV.
		But Baudoin IV then changed his mind, took away the regency, and abdicated in 1182 in favor of Sybille's son Baudoin V. This child died in 1186, soon after his uncle, and Sybille became queen of Jerusalem, and was crowned with her husband Guy de Lusignan.
		Monuments in the West: Marguerite, daughter of Louis d'Acre, vicomte de Beaumont, himself son of Jean de Brienne, king of Jerusalem, was married to Bohemond VII, count of Tripoli (d.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/national/jerusale.htm (2781 words)

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