Toron

Lordship of Toron
Lordship of Toron in 1187
StatusVassal of Kingdom of Jerusalem
CapitalToron
Common languagesLatin, Old French, Italian (also Arabic and Greek)
Religion
Roman Catholicism, Eastern Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy, Syriac Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism
GovernmentFeudal monarchy
• c.1100
Godfrey of Bouillon
• 1110
Hugh I of Jaffa
Historical eraHigh Middle Ages

Toron, now Tibnin or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus. The castle was the centre of the Lordship of Toron, a seigneury within the Kingdom of Jerusalem, actually a rear-vassalage of the Principality of Galilee.

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