Amalric I of Jerusalem, 1153–1174 (as king from 1163).

Jaffa merged with newly-conquered Ascalon in 1153, becoming the County of Jaffa and Ascalon.Īfter the siege of Ascalon in 1153, the frontier fortress of Ascalon joined Jaffa in a combined county.

Amalric I of Jerusalem, son of Melisende and Fulk, 1151–1153 (when he reached the age of maturity).

Hugh II of Jaffa, son of Hugh I, 1122–1134.

Albert of Namur, stepfather and regent to Hugh II, 1118–1122.

Hugh I of Jaffa, first cousin of king Baldwin II of Jerusalem, 1110–1118.

Jaffa was taken by the Crusaders in June 1099 during the siege of Jerusalem and became part of the kingdom shortly thereafter. A number of seigneuries were vassals to the count of Jaffa, including the Lordship of Ramla, Lordship of Ibelin and Lordship of Mirabel. It passed in and out of direct royal control, and became titular after the loss of the counties to the Muslims in the 13th-century. After 1153, it became the double County of Jaffa and Ascalon, when the Fatimid fortress of Ascalon was conquered. Afterwards, it was usually held directly by the royal family or one of their relatives. Jaffa, on the Mediterranean coast, was fortified after the First Crusade, and was a separate county until the revolt of Hugh II of Le Puiset in 1134. Main article: County of Jaffa and Ascalon These states dated their documents by the reigns of their own rulers, carried out their own foreign policy, and sent military aid to the kingdom of their own will, rather than through feudal obligation therefore, they are generally recognized as sovereign and are treated more fully under their own articles. Later in its history, it would at times recognize Byzantine or Armenian suzerainty, or none at all.

The County of Tripoli, the nearest of them, is sometimes considered to have been a vassal lordship under the king's suzerainty, although it preserved an extraordinary degree of sovereignty.Īntioch was almost independent, for it was founded already before the kingship and its first holder was a rival of kings, the original leader of the crusade.

Its first two counts became kings of Jerusalem, and the county was bestowed as a royal gift on Joscelin I of Edessa. The king of Jerusalem was bound to reconcile them in case of disputes, or between a vassal prince and the Latin patriarch of Antioch, and could claim the regency in case of a vacancy or minority in their successions.Įdessa was perhaps the most closely tied to the kingdom, despite its distance. These states nominally bore some dependency on the kingdom of Jerusalem.

7 Inheritance in the Kingdom of JerusalemĪside from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there were also three other major Crusader states in the Near East:.

6.13 Lordship of Joscelin III of Edessa.

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