Fall of Tripoli (1289)
| Siege of Tripoli (1289) | |||||||||
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| Part of The Crusades | |||||||||
The siege of Tripoli by the Mamluks in 1289. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Mamluk Sultanate |
County of Tripoli Knights Templar Knights Hospitaller Republic of Genoa | ||||||||
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| Qalawun |
Lucia of Tripoli Geoffroy de Vandac Matthew of Clermont Amalric of Tyre Jean de Grailly | ||||||||
The Fall of Tripoli was the capture and destruction of the Crusader state of the County of Tripoli (now parts of Lebanon and Syria) by the Mamluk Sultanate based in Cairo. The battle occurred in 1289 and was an important event in the Crusades, as it marked the capture of one of the few remaining major Crusader possessions. The event is depicted in a rare surviving illustration from a now-fragmentary manuscript known as the 'Cocharelli Codex', thought to have been created in Genoa in the 1330s. The image shows the countess Lucia, Countess of Tripoli and Bartholomew Mansel, Bishop of Tortosa (granted the apostolic seat in 1278) sitting in state in the centre of the fortified city, and Qalawun's assault in 1289, with his army depicted massacring the inhabitants fleeing to boats in the harbour and to the nearby island of Saint Thomas (now Abdel Wahab Island, accessible by bridge in el Mina, Lebanon).