Lucia, Countess of Tripoli
Lucia of Tripoli († between 1292 and June 29, 1299 ) was the last Countess of Tripoli.
She was the daughter of Bohemond VI. / III. of Antioch and Tripoli, and the Sibyl of Lesser Armenia. She was the sister of Bohemund IV of Tripoli. As Bohemond IV died childless in 1287, Lucia inherited from him the rights to the County of Tripoli. Since the Principality of Antioch had been taken already in 1268 by the Mamluks, she inherited only Titularansprüche in terms of Antioch.
As Lucia was at that time out of the country, the nobles of the county offered their mother Sibylle at the regency. When they turn it was the Bishop of Tartus, Bartholomew Mansel, as Bailiff to appoint, who had ruled during the minority of Bohemund IV, the nobles refused her reign. Under the leadership of the nobleman of Gibelet Bartholomew and his son Bertram rose the citizens of the city and set up their own municipal government.
In the spring of 1288 Lucia came to Tripoli to take over the government. The municipality of Tripoli she leaned from just because she was married in Auxerre with Narjot de Toucy, a former admiral of Charles of Anjou. Since Bartholomew Embriaco was Genoese descent, he sought on behalf of the municipality of Tripoli for help by the Genoese after which, however, immediately tried to install a Podestà in Tripoli, that is an official administrator of Genoa, who made Tripoli essentially to a Genoese colony would. To avoid the usurpation by the Genoese, the Commune Lucia decided to recognize. The Genoese, however, now under the leadership of Admiral Benedetto Zaccaria, reached surprisingly well an alliance with the Countess, now in addition to the privileges of the community also recognized prerogatives of the Genoese. This preemption of the Genoese provoked the displeasure of their commercial rivals, the Venetians and Pisans, which is assumed that they made contact to Mamelukensultan Qalawun so he attacking the city.
Qalawun besieged the city in 1289 for a month and captured it on April 26. Lucia fled to Cyprus. Tripoli was destroyed and further inland to set up the fortress Mons Peregrinus new. Two years later, also fell Acre, the last stronghold of the Christians in the hands of the Mamluks.
Although he could claim the government in the county itself, Lucia's husband did not come to Tripoli. He was in the service of the Kingdom of Naples and died 1293rd Both son was Philip of Toucy, who married in 1299 Eleanor, daughter of Charles II of Anjou. Lucia's fate is not known.