Armengol de Aspa

Armengol de Aspa (died after April 1191), also known as Hermangard d'Asp, was the ninth Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, holding the office from 1188 until his resignation in 1189 or 1190.

On 30 December 1187, they had forced the blockade of the port, captured eleven Ayyubid galleys and taken as prisoner nine emirs, including that of Alexandria.

Saladin sent his general Sayf al-Din Mahmūd to continue the siege, establishing his forces in the nearby castle at Le Forbelet ('Afrbalā).

On 2 January 1188, the Hospitallers attacked and decimated the Muslim troops, killing Mahmūd and captured a large cache of arms.

Darbsak and Baghras (Gaston), defended by the Templars, succumbed after a short siege in mid-September, leaving the road to Antioch open.

Margat, defended by the Hospitallers, resisted, and Antioch only escaped the Ayyubids by promising to open its gates if, within seven months, it had not received any Christian help.

[7] To the east, beyond the Jordan, al-Adil I, brother of Saladin, attacked the castles of Krak des Chevaliers and Montreal, surrendering for lack of supplies at the end of September 1188.

[4] Acre, along with Beirut and Sidon, capitulated without a fight to the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in 1187, after his decisive victory at Hattin and the subsequent Muslim capture of Jerusalem.

[8] It was probably in the last months of 1189, or at the latest in the winter of 1190, that the magistracy of Armengol came to an end, based on date of the assumption of office by Garnier de Nablus.