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unusual facts about Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres


Philip of Montfort

Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres, his elder son, a lieutenant of Charles I of Sicily


Alice of Champagne

Raoul then asked to receive the city of Tyre, on behalf of her regency, but Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre preferred to keep it to increase his stronghold of Toron, and supported by other barons, made it clear to Raoul that the title of regent was only symbolic.

Balian of Beirut

He also had the support of Philip of Novara and Philip of Montfort and he employed mercenaries and galleys in the endeavour.

Counts of Castres

1228-1240 : Philip I of Montfort († 1270), Lord of Castres, and later Lord of Tyre and Toron, son of Guy de Montfort and d'Helvis d'Ibelin.

1240-1270 : Philip II of Montfort († 1270), Lord of Castres, son of Philip of Montfort and d'Éléonore de Courtenay.

Military history of the Crusader states

The War of the Lombards (1228–1242) was a civil war in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus between the "Lombards" (also called the imperialists), the representatives of the Emperor Frederick II, largely from Lombardy, and the native aristocracy, led first by the Ibelins and then by the Montforts.

Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre

During that conflict, he attempted to relieve the Genoese in Acre in 1258, but was repulsed, which helped decide the struggle for the Venetians.

Raymond-Roupen

Their eldest daughter, Maria of Antioch married Philip, Lord of Tyre.


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