Walter III of Caesarea

[2] He returned to the mainland in October, when he attended the council held at Acre by King Andrew II of Hungary to decide a course of action for the Fifth Crusade.

[1] In 1217–18, while Walter was in Egypt, a Muslim army threatened Caesarea, but the city was successfully re-fortified by King John.

[3] In 1220, the Muslims returned under al-Mu'azzam and captured the city, which was being defended by Werner von Egisheim and the Republic of Genoa.

[1] Walter III married Margaret, a sister of the ex-regent John of Ibelin and the regent of Cyprus, Philip.

This brought him firmly into the Ibelin camp opposed to the influence of the queen's husband, the Emperor Frederick II.

When the queen died in Italy on 25 April 1228, the Haute Cour (High Court) elected Walter and John to serve as c-bailiffs for the young king Conrad II, the emperor's son, but they refused.

[1] After Frederick's arrival, he held a banquet in Limassol on Cyprus, where Walter was present when the emperor demanded that John of Ibelin surrender the bailliage of the kingdom.

Alice married Jacques de la Mandelée, who need a dispensation because, according to the Lignages d'Outremer, "previously he was espoused to the sister of this one" (prius soror ipsius desponsaverat).