1. Alfonso Jordan, spelled Alfons Jordan or Alphonse Jourdain, was the Count of Tripoli, Count of Rouergue and Count of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence and Duke of Narbonne.
11 Facts About Alfonso Jordan
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Alfonso Jordan was born in the castle of Mont Pelerin in Tripoli while his father was on the First Crusade.
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Alfonso Jordan was given the name "Jourdain" after being baptised in the Jordan River.
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Alfonso Jordan was then taken to Europe, where his half-brother Bertrand had given him the county of Rouergue.
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Alfonso Jordan recovered a part in 1119, but he was not in full control until 1123.
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Alfonso Jordan next had to fight for his rights in Provence against Count Raymond Berengar III of Barcelona.
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At this stage, Alfonso Jordan was master of the regions lying between the Pyrenees and the Alps, the Auvergne and the sea.
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Alfonso Jordan's ascendancy was, according to one commentator, an unmixed good to the country, for during a period of fourteen years art and industry flourished.
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Alfonso Jordan seized the viscounty of Narbonne in 1134, and ruled it during the minority of Viscountess Ermengarde, only restoring it to her in 1143.
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That same year Alfonso Jordan was again in Spain, making a pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostela, when he proposed a peace between the king of Leon and Garcia Ramirez of Navarre, which became the basis for subsequent negotiations.
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In 1144, Alfonso Jordan again incurred the displeasure of the church by siding with the citizens of Montpellier against their lord.