The Ibelin coat of arms.

Ibelin was a castle in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century (at modern Yavne, 31.820° N 34.713° E), which gave its name to an important family of nobles. Image File history File links Ibelin. ... Image File history File links Ibelin. ... This article is about the medieval crusades. ... Official language Latin, French, Italian, and other western languages; Greek and Arabic also widely spoken Capital Jerusalem, later Acre Constitution Various laws, so-called Assizes of Jerusalem The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Christian kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 by the First Crusade. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Yavne (Hebrew יבנה, Arabic يبنة Yibnah) is a city in the Center District of Israel in Israel. ...

The castle

The site of Ibelin had been occupied since ancient times; the Romans called it Iamnia. The crusader castle was built in 1141 between Jaffa and Ascalon, near Montgisard and Ramla. At that time Ascalon was still controlled by Fatimid Egypt, and Egyptian armies marched out every year from Ascalon to attack the crusader kingdom. Ibelin was constructed in order to contain these attacks to a smaller area. The original castle, built by King Fulk of Jerusalem, had four towers. Octavian, widely known as Augustus, founder of the Roman empire The Roman Empire was a phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government. ... Jaffa (Hebrew יָפוֹ, Standard Hebrew Yafo, Tiberian Hebrew Yāp̄ô; Arabic يَافَا Yāfā; also Japho, Joppa), is an ancient city located in Israel. ... Ashkelon or Ashqelon (Hebrew אשקלון; Arabic عسقلان ʿAsqalān; Latin Ascalon) was an ancient Philistine seaport on the east coast of the Mediterranian sea just north of Gaza. ... Ramla (Hebrew רמלה Ramlāh; Arabic الرملة ar-Ramlah, colloquial Ramleh), is a city in the Center District of Israel in Israel. ... The Fatimids or Fatimid Caliphate (Arabic الفاطميون) is the Ismaili Shiite dynasty that ruled much of North Africa from A.D. 5 January 910 to 1171. ... Fulk of Anjou (1092 – November 10, 1143), king of Jerusalem from 1131, was the son of Fulk IV, count of Anjou, and his wife Bertrada (who ultimately deserted her husband and became the mistress of Philip I of France). ...

The family: first and second generations

The Ibelin family rose from relatively humble origins to become one of the most important noble families in the Crusader states of Jerusalem and Cyprus. The family claimed to be descended from the Le Puiset viscounts of Chartres, but this appears to be a later fabrication. They were more probably from Italy, the name 'Barisan' being found in Tuscany and Liguria. Its first known member Barisan was apparently a knight in service of the Count of Jaffa and in the 1110s became constable of Jaffa. As reward for his capable and loyal service, around 1122 he married Helvis, heiress of the nearby lordship of Ramla. Le Puiset is a small commune of the Eure-et-Loir département of France. ... Cathedral of Chartres Cathedral of Chartres, western spires Chartres is a town and commune of France, préfecture (capital) of the Eure-et-Loir département. ... Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria and Marche to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ... Barisan of Ibelin (died 1150) was an important figure in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, and was the ancestor of the Ibelin family. ... The double County of Jaffa and Ascalon was one of the four major seigneuries of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, according to 13th-century commentator John of Ibelin. ... The Lordship of Ramla was one of the vassal states of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. ...

Barisan was given the castle of Ibelin in 1141 by King Fulk as a reward for his loyalty during the revolt of his then master Hugh II of Le Puiset, Count of Jaffa, in 1134. Ibelin was part of County of Jaffa, which was annexed to the royal domain after Hugh's unsuccessful revolt. Barisan's marriage with Helvis produced Hugh, Baldwin, Barisan, Ermengarde, and Stephanie. The younger Barisan came to be known as Balian. Along with Ibelin, the family then held Ramla (inherited from Helvis), and the youngest son Balian received the lordship of Nablus when he married Maria Comnena, the Dowager Queen. Balian was the last to hold these territories as they all fell to Saladin in 1187. Hugh II of Le Puiset or Hugh II of Jaffa (c. ... Hugh of Ibelin (died c. ... Baldwin of Ibelin, also known as Baldwin of Ramla (died c. ... Balian of Ibelin (early 1140s–1193) was an important noble in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century. ... Nāblus (sometimes Nābulus; Arabic: (help· info); IPA , Hebrew: (help· info); IPA ); ) is a major city under Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and, with a population of over 100,000, is one of the largest Palestinian population centers in the Middle East. ... Maria Comnena (c. ... Saladin. ...

The family underwent a remarkable rise in status in only two generations. In the circumstances of the crusader kingdom, this rapid rise, noblesse nouveau, was not as difficult as it would have been in Europe. In Crusader Palestine, individuals and whole families tended to die much sooner and replacements were needed.

The 13th century Ibelins

Balian's descendants were among the most powerful nobles in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus. Balian's first son John of Ibelin, the "Old Lord of Beirut", was the leader of the opposition to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, when the emperor tried to impose imperial authority over the crusader states. The family briefly regained control of the castle of Ibelin in 1241 in the aftermath of Frederick's Sixth Crusade, when certain territories were returned to the Christians by treaty. John had numerous children with Melisende of Arsuf, including Balian, lord of Beirut; Baldwin, seneschal of Cyprus; another John, lord of Arsuf and constable of Jerusalem; and Guy, constable of Cyprus. This Balian was married to Eschiva of Montbéliard and was the father of John II of Beirut, who married the daughter of Guy I of la Roche, duke of Athens. John of Arsuf was the father of Balian of Arsuf, who married Plaisance of Antioch. Guy the constable was the father of Isabella, who married Hugh III of Cyprus. The Kingdom of Cyprus was a Roman Catholic Crusader kingdom on the island of Cyprus in the late Middle Ages. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-04-15, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Frederick II (December 26, 1194 – December 13, 1250), Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212, unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 until his death in 1250. ... The Crusader states, c. ... The Sixth Crusade started in 1228 as an attempt to reconquer Jerusalem. ... Central Beirut Beirut (Arabic: ‎ translit: ) is the capital, largest city, and chief seaport of Lebanon. ... Arsuf (also known as Arsur or Apollonia) was a Crusader city and fortress located in what is now Israel, about 15 kilometres north of Tel Aviv. ... // Duchy of Athens A small crusader state which was established after the Sack of Constantinople (1204) by the Crusaders. ... Queen Plaisance of Cyprus, born Plaisance of Antioch (b c 1235 died 1261) was a daughter of Bohemund V of Antioch and his second wife, an Italian noblewoman Lucienne dei Conti di Segni, kinswoman of Pope Innocent III. She became Queen consort and Queen regent of the Kingdom of Cyprus... Hugh III of Cyprus, Hugh I of Jerusalem, Hugh of Antioch or Hugh of Lusignan (died March 24, 1284), King of Cyprus 1267–1284 and King of Jerusalem 1268–1284, was the son of Henry of Antioch and Isabella of Cyprus, the daughter of Hugh I of Cyprus. ...

Balian of Ibelin's second son Philip was regent of Cyprus while his niece, the widowed Queen Alice, needed help to govern. With Alice of Montbéliard, Philip was the father of John of Ibelin, count of Jaffa and Ascalon, regent of Jerusalem, and author of the Assizes of the Haute Cour of Jerusalem, the most important legal document from the crusader kingdom. John married Maria, sister of Hethum I of Armenia, and was the father of James, count of Jaffa and Ascalon and also a noted jurist; and of Guy, count of Jaffa and Ascalon and husband of his cousin Maria, Hethum's daughter. John of Ibelin (1215– December, 1266), count of Jaffa and Ascalon, was a noted jurist and the author of the longest legal treatise from the Kingdom of Jerusalem. ... The Haute Cour (High Court) was the feudal council of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. ... King Hetoum (right) and Queen Zabel (left) on a silver tram Hethum (or Hetoum) I of Armenia ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1226 to 1270. ...

Several members of the family went to the new kingdom of Cyprus at the beginning of the 13th century. Most of the rest moved there as the mainland kingdom was lost piece by piece. No members of the Ibelin family seem to have gone to any other country during this period. At this time, some of the Embriaco lords of Gibelet, relatives of the Ibelins, also took the name of "Ibelin" because of their common maternal descent.

Despite the family's modest origins on the paternal side, the Ibelins during the 13th–15th centuries were among the highest nobility in the Kingdom of Cyprus, producing brides for younger sons, grandsons and brothers of kings (though the kings and eldest sons tended to find more royal wives). As some of these cadet princes unexpectedly rose to the kingship, Ibelin daughters were sometimes queens. Ibelins lived among and married into the highest circles of Cyprus, among such families as Montfort, Dampierre, ducal Brunswick, (Antioch-)Lusignan, Montbeliard, and Gibelet(-Ibelins). They married also into other branches of Ibelins. They also had loftier ancestors: Maria Comnena was from the Byzantine imperial Comnenus dynasty, and was descended from the kings of Georgia, Bulgaria, ancient Armenia, Parthia, Persia and Syria. Byzantine Empire (Greek: Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. ... Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus The Comnenus or Komnenos family was an important dynasty in the history of the Byzantine Empire. ... Parthia[1] (Persian: اشکانیان Ashkâniân), situated in the northeast of modern Iran, but at its height covering all of Iran proper, as well as the modern countries of Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, eastern Turkey, eastern Syria, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain... The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau. ...

When the Kingdom of Cyprus was destroyed in the 15th century, the Ibelins apparently also lost their lands and positions (and the family possibly went extinct) — the sources, at least, no longer mention them. Descendants of the Ibelins, through the royal family of Cyprus, include several royal families of modern Europe, since their descendant Anne, Duchess of Savoy, daughter of Janus of Cyprus, was, for example, the ancestor of the Dukes of Savoy, the La Tremoille princes of Talmond and Taranto, the Longueville family, the princes of Monaco, the electors of Bavaria, the Farnese of Parma, the last Valois kings of France, the Dukes of Lorraine, the Habsburg-Lorraines, the Bourbons of Navarre and France, and, as their progeny, practically all Catholic royalty in recent centuries. The House of Savoy is a dynasty of nobles who traditionally had their domain in Savoy, a region between Piedmont, Italy, France and French-speaking Switzerland. ... Janus of Cyprus (1375-1432) ruled Cyprus from 1398 to 1432. ... Founded 706 BC as Taras () Region Apulia Mayor Rossana Di Bello Area  - City Proper  217 km² Population  - City (2001)  - Density (city proper) 201,349 973/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 40°28 N 17°14 E www. ... The House of Grimaldi is associated with the history of the Republic of Genoa and of the Principality of Monaco. ... The following is a list of rulers during the history of Bavaria: // Dukes of Bavaria, 548-1623 Agilolfing Dynasty (see also Bavarii) ca. ... The Farnese family was an influential family in Renaissance Italy. ... Parma is a medieval city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, with splendid architecture and a fine countryside around it. ... The Valois Dynasty succeeded the Capetian Dynasty as rulers of France from 1328-1589. ... The Duchy of Lorraine was an independent state for most of the period of time between 843 to 1739. ... Habsburg - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house. ... Navarre (Spanish Navarra, Basque Nafarroa) is an autonomous community in Spain. ...

Lords of Ibelin

• Barisan of Ibelin (c. 1134–1150)
• Hugh of Ibelin (1150-1170)
• Baldwin of Ibelin (inherited Ibelin in [1170, but passed it to Balian)
• Balian of Ibelin (1170-1193)
• John of Ibelin (1193–1236)
• Afterwards held directly by the Counts of Jaffa and Ascalon

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Family tree

• Barisan of Ibelin m. Helvis of Ramla
  • Hugh of Ibelin m. Agnes of Courtenay
  • Baldwin of Ibelin m. Richilde of Bethsan
    • Thomas, Lord of Ramla
    • Eschiva m. Amalric II of Jerusalem
      • Hugh I, King of Cyprus m. Alice of Jerusalem, the Dowager Queen of Cyprus
        • Henry I of Cyprus
          • Hugh II of Cyprus, died childless young
        • Mary of Lusignan m. Walter of Brienne, Count of Jaffa
          • Hugh of Brienne
        • Isabella of Lusignan m. Henry of Antioch
          • Hugh of Antioch who became King of Cyprus and Jerusalem
      • Helvis m. Raymond Rupen of Antioch-Armenia
        • Maria of Toron and Tyre
        • Eschiva of Antioch m Hethum of Lampron
    • Stephanie
  • Balian of Ibelin m. Maria Comnena
    • Helvis
    • John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut m. Melisende of Arsuf
      • Balian, lord of Beirut m. Eschiva of Montbéliard
        • Isabella of Ibelin m. Henry Embriaco of Gibelet
          • Guy II Embriaco of Gibelet m. Margaret Grenier of Sidon (granddaughter of Queen Isabella of Armenia and King Hethum)
            • Marie Embriaco of Gibelet m. Philip of Ibelin, seneschal (mother of Helvis who married Henry of Brunswick)
        • John II of Ibelin, lord of Beirut m. Alice de la Roche of Athens
          • Isabella, Lady of Beirut, child-bride of Hugh II of Cyprus, later married three other noblemen, died childless
          • Eschiva, Lady of Beirut after her sister, married Humphrey Montfort of Tyre, then Guy of Lusignan
            • Hugh IV of Cyprus, married Marie of Ibelin, then Alice d'Ibelin
              • James I of Cyprus married Helvis of Brunswick
                • Janus of Cyprus married Charlotte of Bourbon
                  • Anne of Cyprus married Duke Louis of Savoy
                    • Amedeo IX of Savoy
                    • Philip II of Savoy
      • Isabella, married Hugh III of Cyprus
        • Guy of Lusignan, married Eschiva of Ibelin, lady of Beirut, father of Hugh IV of Cyprus.
      • John, lord of Arsuf, constable of Jerusalem, married Alice of Cayphas
        • Balian, lord of Arsuf married Plaisance of Antioch (childless), then Lucie de Cenechy
          • Jean of Ibelin, married Isabella of Ibelin
            • Balian of Ibelin, lord of Arsuf
      • Baldwin, seneschal of Cyprus m. Alice de Bethsan, daughter of Theodora Komnena
        • Jean d'Ibelin m. Isabelle du Rivet, daughter of Aimery du Rivet and Eschiva de St. Omer of Galilee
          • Baudouin d'Ibelin lord of Korakou-Vitzada m. Marguerite d'Embriac de Gibelet
            • Isabelle d'Ibelin m. Guy II d'Ibelin, mother of Alice of Ibelin (second wife of king Hugh IV)
        • Philip of Ibelin, constable of Cyprus
          • Balian of Ibelin, titular Prince of Galilee
      • Guy, constable of Cyprus, married Philippa Berlais
        • Baldwin of Ibelin, bailiff of Jerusalem
        • Balian of Ibelin, seneschal of Cyprus, married Alice of Lampron (Armenia)
          • Isabella, married Jean of Ibelin, lorf of Arsuf
          • Guy II of Ibelin, married Isabella of Ibelin
            • Alice of Ibelin, married Hugh IV of Cyprus, mother of James I of Cyprus
        • Philip of Ibelin, seneschal of Jerusalem, married Marie Embriaco de Gibelet
          • Isabella, married Ferdinand of Majorca, then Hugh of Ibelin, count of Jaffa
          • Helvis, married Henry of Brunswick
            • Philip of Brunswick, constable of Cyprus, married Helvis of Dampierre, daughter of Eudo of Dampierre
              • John of Brunswick, Admiral of Cyprus
              • Helvis of Brunswick, married James I of Cyprus, mother of Janus of Cyprus
    • Margaret
    • Philip of Ibelin, married Alice of Montbéliard
      • John of Ibelin, count of Jaffa and Ascalon, married Maria of Armenia
        • James of Ibelin, count of Jaffa
        • Guy of Ibelin, count of Jaffa
          • Hugh of Ibelin, count of Jaffa, married Isabella of Ibelin
            • Balian of Ibelin, count of Jaffa
            • Guy of Ibelin, count of Jaffa
              • Jean of Ibelin, count of Jaffa
              • Marie of Ibelin, heiress of the titular county of Jaffa, married Renier LePetit, titular count of Jaffa
          • Mary of Ibelin m. King Hugh IV
        • numerous others
      • Maria
  • Ermengarde, married William of Bures, Prince of Galilee
  • Stephanie

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Sources

• William of Tyre, A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea. E. A. Babcock and A. C. Krey, trans. Columbia University Press, 1943.
• Peter W. Edbury, John of Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Boydell Press, 1997.
• H. E. Mayer, "Carving Up Crusaders: The Early Ibelins and Ramlas", in Outremer: Studies in the history of the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem presented to Joshua Prawer. Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute, 1982.
• Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades. Cambridge University Press, 1951-53.