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Raymond II (Latin: Raimundus; c. 1116 – 1152) was count of Tripoli from 1137 to 1152. He succeeded his father, Pons, Count of Tripoli, who was killed during a campaign that a commander from Damascus launched against Tripoli. Raymond accused the local Christians of betraying his father and invaded their villages in the Mount Lebanon area. He ...
Raymond II ( Latin: Raimundus; c. 1116 – 1152) was count of Tripoli from 1137 to 1152. He succeeded his father, Pons, Count of Tripoli, who was killed during a campaign that a commander from Damascus launched against Tripoli. Raymond accused the local Christians of betraying his father and invaded their villages in the Mount Lebanon area.
Raymond III (1140 – September/October 1187) was count of Tripoli from 1152 to 1187. He was a minor when Nizari Assassins murdered his father, Raymond II of Tripoli. Baldwin III of Jerusalem, who was staying in Tripoli, made Raymond's mother, Hodierna of Jerusalem, regent. Raymond spent the following years at the royal court in Jerusalem.
Apr 27, 2024 · On 28 February 1105, in the middle of a tough siege, Count Raymond IV de Saint-Gilles (c.1041-1105), the most powerful of all Crusader leaders, crashed through a roof into a burning building when he was surveying the battle from an elevated position outside Tripoli.
The count of Tripoli was the ruler of the County of Tripoli, a crusader state from 1102 through to 1289. Of the four major crusader states in the Levant, Tripoli was created last. [1] The history of the counts of Tripoli began with Raymond IV of Toulouse, who led the Siege of Tripoli.
Apr 26, 2022 · Raymond II of Tripoli (c. 1115 – 1152) was count of Tripoli from 1137 to 1152. He was the son of Pons (de TOULOUSE) of Tripoli and Cecile (CAPET) of France. In 1137, he married Hodierna of Rethel, daughter of Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem. Later that year, he succeeded his father, after Pons was killed in a battle with the army of Damascus.
In this year Count Raymond II of Tripoli granted them what amounted to an independent principality in the east of his county.
