Reign of Batrun

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The reign of Batrun (also le Boutron , Botron , Botroun , Botoron ; Arabic البترون, DMG al-Batrūn ) was a fiefdom in the county of Tripoli at the time of the Crusades . The eponymous city of Batrun formed the center of the rule . The rulership lay between the reigns of Nephin in the north and Gibelet in the south. Approx. The crusader castle Le Puy is 3 km to the northeast .

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Batrun Castle
Alternative name (s): le Boutron, al-Batrun
Creation time : around 1115
Conservation status: Wall remains
Standing position : Barons
Place: Batrun
Geographical location 34 ° 15 '13.8 "  N , 35 ° 39' 23"  E Coordinates: 34 ° 15 '13.8 "  N , 35 ° 39' 23"  E
Height: 1  m
Rule of Batrun (Lebanon)
Reign of Batrun

The Crusaders conquered the area around 1109 in the wake of the First Crusade . Soon Batrun was raised to an independent rule. The Provencal knight Raimund von Agoult (Raymond d'Agoult) is mentioned as the first lord of Batrun from 1115 . The crusaders fortified the city and built a stone crusader castle at the port as a citadel , of which only a few remains of the wall are preserved today. From 1174 the lords of Batrun are handed down through the chronicle of the Genoese Luigi Tommaso , at that time Wilhelm Dorel was lord of Batrun, a son or son-in-law of Raimund. From 1187 to approx. 1197 the rule was occupied by the Ayyubids . After the city of Tripoli had been conquered by the Mamluks under Sultan Qalawun in 1289 , and the latter now threatened Batrun, Batrun was evacuated without a fight and rule finally fell to the Muslims.

Lords of Batrun

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