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Lordship of Tyre

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To fulfill her military obligations to the king, the Republic of Venice granted hereditary estates in her fief to Venetian patricians with the obligation to provide military service as horsemen in case of a war. Initially, the Venetians owed the service of at least five knights, but it was reduced to
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formed its northern border. The lordship's southern border was located about 15 km to the south of Tyre. Its eastern boundary run about 20 km from the coast. The lordship consisted of a narrow strip of land along the coast and a hilly western region. Documents from the crusader period list more than
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family, Rolando, received 12 villages and a share in four other villages, in addition to his house in the town. For Contarini died childless before 1158, the Venetian bailli demanded the return of his fief from his widow, Guida Gradenigo, but she resisted and bequeathed her husband's estates to the
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The Venetian patricians' fiefs consisted of estates in the countryside and a house in the Venetian district of Tyre, and some of them also included a share of communal revenues. Vitale Pantaleo received two villages (Dairrham and Gaifiha), and one-third of two other villages (Maharona and Cafardan)
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in February 1124. After receiving no support from the Fatimids and the nearby Muslim rulers, the burghers of the town surrendered on 7 July 1124. Most Muslim burghers left Tyre, but many of them stayed behind and continued to live under the Franks' rule. The Venetians took possession of their
294:, who was to hold Tyre provisionally until the indemnity was paid and, if it was not paid by May 1284, hold it permanently. Both Hugh and Humphrey died before that date and Tyre escheated. It is not known if the indemnity was paid to Humphrey's heirs. 114:, tried to capture Tyre in 1107 for the first time, but he soon abandoned the siege. After the fall of Tripoli and Beirut, hundreds of the Muslim inhabitants of the two towns sought refuge in Tyre which remained a Fatimid enclave. Baldwin I again laid 212:
king to secure royal protection. Guida was a wealthy widow: she held a whole village, one third of four additional villages and a house in Tyre on her own right. After her death, her late husbands' rural estates were seized by the monarch.
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suggests that the coinage may have originated in 1269, when Philip's position was regularized, but it could have come earlier, since Philip had been making his own policy since at least 1258. In 1271, John made a separate treaty with the
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in addition to a house in the town and 60 bezants from the tolls collected at the market of musical instruments. His house was held by the husband of a woman from the Pantaleo family in the 1240s. A member of the
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three by the 1180s, most probably as a consequence of the loss of Venetian properties to the monarchs. The Venetians were also deprived of their share of the tolls collected at the land gate of Tyre in the 1130s.
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with food when they invaded Palestine in May 1099, because the townspeople wanted to avoid an armed conflict with these Christians who had departed from Europe to Jerusalem in 1096. In two months, the crusaders
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became King of Jerusalem and immediately took steps to regularize the position of Tyre, although whether negotiations were initiated by him or by Philip is not known. In the resulting accord, the king's sister
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that a refugee from Tripoli manufactured. The crusaders (or Franks) were again forced to lift the siege on 10 April 1112. However, the crusaders took control of most villages in the town's vicinity.
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after he was released and returned to Jerusalem in 1125. His treaty with the Venetians obliged them to participate in the defense of the kingdom, thus transforming their possessions into a
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in the late 11th century. The town was located on a peninsula that a narrow strip of land linked to the mainland. Tyre was surrounded by impressive walls, but its burghers provided the
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John and Margaret had no children, and upon John's death in 1283 Tyre escheated to the crown. Unable to pay the indemnity, Hugh reached an agreement with John's younger brother
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110 villages and hamlets in the lordship, but the actual number of settlements was a slightly higher. Most villages were located in the western region.
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Covering a rectangular area of about 450 km (110,000 acres), the lordship was one of the smallest domains in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The
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with Tyre. Exactly when is not known, but he was lord of Tyre by 1289 at the latest. He held it until it was captured by the Mamluks in 1291.
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and Hugh enfeoffed the latter with Tyre, which Philip voluntarily handed over. The agreement contained a clause whereby in the event of an
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held from the monarch. Baldwin II authorized the Pisans to seize five houses near the harbour in the late 1120s. They also bought a
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As an indication of their independence, Philip and John minted copper coins and made treaties with the Muslims. The numismatist
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Jacoby, David (2016). "The Venetian presence in the crusader Lordship of Tyre: A tale of decline". In Boas, Adrian J. (ed.).
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as an indemnity towards the costs of fortifying and defending Tyre for all the years of Philip's lordship.
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to cover Tyre, a year before Hugh III made a similar treaty to cover the area around Acre.
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district and at least sixteen nearby villages. Baldwin II insisted on modifying the
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fleets supported them to conquer most Fatimid ports on the Western coast of the
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Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford
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Edbury, Peter W. (2001). "The De Montforts in the Latin East".
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Semi-independent domain of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1246–1291)
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in late November 1111, but the defenders destroyed his
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Index

Lord of Tyre
Kingdom of Jerusalem
Tyre
Palestinian
Fatimid Caliphate
crusaders
captured Jerusalem
Pisan
Genoese
Venetian
Mediterranean Sea
Caesarea
Acre
Tripoli
Beirut
Sidon
king of Jerusalem
Baldwin I
siege to Tyre
siege tower
grapnels
Artuqid
Nur al-Daulak Balak
Baldwin II
Doge
Domenico Michiel
Warmund of Picquigny
Latin patriarch of Jerusalem
Pactum Warmundi
siege to the town

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