The Fall of Tripoli was the capture and destruction of the Crusader state, the County of Tripoli (in what is modern-day Lebanon), by the Muslim Mamluks. The battle occurred in 1289 and was an important event in the Crusades, as it marked the capture of one of the few remaining major possessions of the Crusaders. The event is represented in a rare surviving illustration from a now fragmentary manuscript known as the 'Cocharelli Codex', thought to have been created in Genoa in the 1330s. The image shows the countess Lucia, Countess of Tripoli and Bartholomew, Bishop of Tortosa (granted the apostolic seat in 1278)K. Eubel, ed. Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, I Monasterii, sumptibus et typis librariae Regensbergianae, [1898] 1913, 92. On Mansel genealogy see W. H Rudt de Collenberg, "A Fragmentary Copy of an Unknown Recension of the 'Lignages d'Outre-Mer' in the Vatican Library", English Historical Review, 98/ 387 (1983), 320-5. sitting in state in the centre of the fortified city, and Qalawun's assault in 1289, with his army depicted massacring the inhabitants fleeing to boats in the harbour and to the nearby island of St Thomas.British Library Add MS 27695 f. 5. http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8334 (accessed 14 April 2017); Faunce, The Cocharelli Codex, Chapter 8.
