Lordship of Beirut

[4] According to the historian Mary E. Nickerson, the lordship extended from the Nahr al-Kalb at the kingdom's border with the County of Tripoli to the Damour river and from the Lebanon Mountains to the sea.

[7] Sometime between 1164 and 1167 the lord of Beirut, Walter III Brisebarre, was forced to cede the lordship to King Amalric to pay for the ransom he owed to his former Muslim captors.

[2] In 1185 Count Raymond III of Tripoli, acting as regent for the minor King Baldwin V, was granted Beirut to defray the costs of the regency.

[9] Tibble argues that the lordship encompassed very little agricultural land, and that "the vast majority" of the lord's revenue came from urban trade.

[11] King Hugh I granted susbtantial property to the lord of Beirut, Balian of Ibelin, noting that this was in expansion of the lordship.

[12] In 1256 the lord of Beirut, John of Ibelin, leased most of his estate to the Teutonic Knights in order to alleviate his financial hardships.

[13] The Franks permanently lost Beirut, as well as all the remaining land of the kingdom, to the Muslim ruler of Egypt, Al-Ashraf Khalil, in 1291.

[14] Mary E. Nickerson posited a succession of the Brisebarre lords in which every appearance of a Walter or Guy was assumed to represent a new individual.