Mary of Antioch (Thoron)

Mary of Antioch ( Marie d'Antioche ) (1215 - d. C. 1257) - Princess of Thoron from 1229.

Senoria Toron on the map of Galilee

Daughter of Raymond Rupin , Prince of Antioch, and his wife Elvisa de Lusignan.

In 1229, during the Sixth Crusade, Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen negotiated the return of the city of Thoron to the crusaders. One of the heirs of Onfroix IV , the last prince of Thoron before his conquest by Saladin , was Mary of Antioch, as the great-granddaughter of Isabella of Torons, wife of Tsar Cilicia Ruben III . She got the principality.

In 1248, in the same capacity (as the great-granddaughter of Ruben III ), unsuccessfully claimed the throne of the Cilician kingdom.

Husband (from 1240) - Philip I de Montfort , senor of Thira. Children:

• Jean de Montfort (d. 1283), the lord of Thoron and Thira
• Honfroix de Montfort (d. 1284), the lord of Beirut and Thira
• Alix
• Elvisa.