High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1132
Fulk establishes border castles
1132
Newly arrived in the Crusader kingdom, Fulk of Anjou fortified the coastal road with castles at Ibelin, Beth Gibelin, and Blanchegarde, meant to isolate Egyptian-held Ascalon. The castles, built by local stonemasons using Byzantine-influenced techniques, would anchor the Latin defense of the southern kingdom. Their garrison forces, drawn from newly enfeoffed Frankish knights, created a network of lordships that gave the kingdom its characteristic feudal geography.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.