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RAYMUND OF TRIPOLI

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RAYMUND

RAYMUND OF See also:
TRIPOLI
TRIPOLI (Tarabulus el-Gharb, i.e. Tripoli of the West)
TRIPOLI, or TARABULUS (anc. Tripolis)
TRIPOLI , the most famous of the descendants of Raymund of See also:

Toulouse, was a See also:

GREAT

great-See also:

GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson of his eldest son See also:

BERTRAND, HENRI GRATIEN, COMTE (1773-1844)

Bertrand: his See also:

MOTHER

mother was Hodierna, a daughter of See also:

Baldwin II., and through her he was closely connected with the See also:

KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of See also:

Jerusalem. He became See also:

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count of Tripoli in 1152, on the assassination of his See also:

FATHER

father. In 1164 he was captured by Nureddin, and was only released in 1172 after a captivity of eight years. In 1174 he claimed the regency on behalf of Baldwin IV. (at once a See also:

minor and a leper), in virtue of his See also:

close relationship; and the claim was acknowledged. After two years the regency seems to have passed to Reginald of See also:

CHATILLON

Chatillon; but Raymund, who had married the heiress of the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of See also:

TIBERIAS

Tiberias, continued to figure in the affairs of the See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom. His great ability See also:

pro-cured him enemies; for two years, 118o-1182, Baldwin IV. was induced by evil advisers to exclude him from his territories. But as See also:

SALADIN (Arab. Sala-ud-din, " Honouring the Faith ") (1138—1193)

Saladin See also:

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew more threatening, Raymund grew more indispensable; and in 1184 he became See also:

REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

regent for Baldwin V., on See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition that, if the See also:

king died before his See also:

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority, his successor should be determined by the great See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of the See also:

West. Raymund conducted the regency with skill, securing a truce from ' For the future See also:

HISTORY

history of the county, see under RAYMUND OF TRIPOLI andBOHEMUND IV. Saladin in 1185; but when Baldwin V. died, in 1186, all went wrong. Raymund summoned an See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly of the barons to Naplous to deliberate on the situation; but while they deliberated, the supporters of See also:

GUY, THOMAS (1644–1724)

Guy de See also:

LUSIGNAN

Lusignan (the See also:

HUSBAND

husband of Baldwin IV.'s See also:

SISTER

sister, Sibylla) acted, and had him crowned, in See also:

DEFIANCE

defiance of the stipulation under which Raymund had become regent. The See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the barons came over to Guy; and Raymund, See also:

LEFT

left in See also:

ISOLATION

isolation, retired to Tiberias and negotiated a truce for himself with Saladin.

His ambiguous position led contemporaries to accuse him of treasonable See also:

correspondence with Saladin; but his See also:

LOYALTY

loyalty to the See also:

Christian cause was nobly shown in 1187, when he reconciled himself to Guy, and aided him in the See also:

BATTLE

battle of Hattin, which was engaged, however, in the See also:

TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth of his See also:

EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

earnest See also:

ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice. He escaped from the battle wounded, and ultimately retired to Tripoli, where he died (1187). In the corrupt society of the latter days of the kingdom of Jerusalem, Raymund showed himself at least as disinterested as any other See also:

man, and certainly more capable than the rest of his contemporaries. He might have saved Jerusalem, if Jerusalem could have been saved; but his was the vox clamantis in deserto. " He is worthy of the See also:

THRONE

throne," wrote a contemporary Arabic chronicler: " he seems destined for it by nature, who has given him pre-eminent See also:

WISDOM, BOOK OF, or WISDOM OF SOLOMON (Sept. Io4ia IaXwµwvos; Lat. Vulg. Liber sapientiae)

wisdom and courage." (E.

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