[1] In 1288, Lucia then came to Tripoli from Apulia, Italy to take control of the county, although she was opposed by both the commune and the Genoese, due to her marriage in ca 1275 or 1278 to Narjot de Toucy in Auxerre.

[2] The Venetians and Pisans, who also had trading links with Tripoli, were shocked at this and supposedly conspired with the Mamluk sultan Qalawun to attack the city.

Lucia allied with the Mongols, who, knowing that Tripoli was too weak to defend itself even with their help, asked for support from Europe, although no aid was to be found there.

Two years later Acre, the last Crusader outpost in the Holy Land was also captured by the Mamluk Sultanate.

[3] Although he could have claimed the county through her, Lucia's husband never came to Tripoli, as he was attending to business in the Kingdom of Naples, where he died in 1292.