Count of Tripoli

The Count of Tripoli was the crusader lord of the crusader state of the County of Tripoli from 1102 through 1289, and the last of the four major Crusader states in the Levant to be created.

The history of the Counts of Tripoli begun with Raymond IV who was from Toulouse and never actually controlled the County of Tripoli. He did, however, begin the Siege of Tripoli. The family tree of the Count is given with that of the Count of Toulouse. Raymond IV's bastard son Bertrand took over the County of Toulouse, while his cousin William-Jordan became as a Regent in Tripoli for his own son Alfonso Jordan. However, a conflict between Bertrand and William-Jordan led to Bertrand gaining Tripoli, and William-Jordan's son, Alfonso, succeeding to Toulouse. Raymond III died shortly after the disastrous Battle of Hattin in 1187, and the title passed to the Principality of Antioch.