Fall of Tripoli (1289)

Siege of Tripoli (1289)
Part of The Crusades
The siege of Tripoli by the Mamluks in 1289.
Date March – April 1289 Location Tripoli, present-day Lebanon Result Mamluk Sultanate victory Territorial changes Tripoli taken by the Mamluk Sultanate
Belligerents
Mamluk Sultanate	County of Tripoli Knights Templar Knights Hospitaller Republic of Genoa
Commanders and leaders
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, the County of Tripoli (in what is modern-day Lebanon), by the Muslim Mamluks. 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 possessions of the Crusaders. The event is represented 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, Bishop of Tortosa (granted the apostolic seat in 1278)^[1] 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 St Thomas.^[2]