County of Jaffa and Ascalon

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Crusader county feudal lordship vassal state

The County of Jaffa and Ascalon was a prominent coastal lordship of the medieval Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, centered on the strategic ports of Jaffa and Ascalon in the Levant.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Count of Jaffa and Ascalon	2
County of Jaffa and Ascalon canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Crusader county ⓘ feudal lordship ⓘ vassal state ⓘ
borderedBy	County of Ramla NERFINISHED ⓘ Lordship of Ibelin NERFINISHED ⓘ
coastlineOn	Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
establishedAfter	First Crusade NERFINISHED ⓘ
establishedBy	Crusaders NERFINISHED ⓘ
feudalSystem	Frankish feudal law ⓘ
governedBy	count ⓘ
hadFortification	citadel of Jaffa NERFINISHED ⓘ fortifications of Ascalon ⓘ
hadVassal	lesser lordships and fiefs within its territory ⓘ
hasCapital	Jaffa NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPort	Ascalon NERFINISHED ⓘ Jaffa NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasTerritory	Ascalon NERFINISHED ⓘ Darum NERFINISHED ⓘ Ibelin NERFINISHED ⓘ Jaffa NERFINISHED ⓘ Lydda NERFINISHED ⓘ Ramla NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	Arabic ⓘ Latin ⓘ Old French ⓘ
legalTradition	Assizes of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn	Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Kingdom of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ
politicalStructure	hereditary fief ⓘ
religion	Latin Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ
strategicRole	control of coastal trade routes ⓘ defense of access to Jerusalem from the coast ⓘ
suzerain	King of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ
timePeriod	High Middle Ages ⓘ
wasContestedBy	Ayyubid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ Mamluk Sultanate NERFINISHED ⓘ
wasHeldBy	Amalric of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ Baldwin I of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ Baldwin II of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Ibelin NERFINISHED ⓘ John of Brienne NERFINISHED ⓘ John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter IV of Brienne NERFINISHED ⓘ
wasImportantFor	pilgrim traffic to the Holy Land ⓘ supply and reinforcement of Jerusalem from Europe ⓘ
wasIntegratedInto	royal domain of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ⓘ
wasSceneOf	battles between Crusaders and Muslim forces ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Crusader states → hasPart → County of Jaffa and Ascalon ⓘ

Guy of Lusignan → positionHeld → County of Jaffa and Ascalon ⓘ

this entity surface form: Count of Jaffa and Ascalon

Baldwin III of Jerusalem → title → County of Jaffa and Ascalon ⓘ

this entity surface form: Count of Jaffa and Ascalon