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| Mamluk Sultanate | Frankish forces | ||||||||
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| Baybars | Unknown | ||||||||
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Chastel Neuf (also called Castellum Novum, Hunin in Latin) was a castle in the Frankish territory in the town of Hunin, now called Chastel Neuf, captured in 1266 by forces of the Mamluk Sultanate under the leadership of Sultan Baybars. The castle was captured in or shortly after Baybars' capture of Safed in July 1266, during a larger Mamluk invasion of the remaining Frankish strongholds in Galilee.[1]
Later and contemporary Muslim sources provide little information regarding the operation. The chronology that is discussed by historian Rabei G. Khamisy indicates that Hunin and the nearby Tibnin (Toron) were conquered during or immediately following the conquest of Safed. Khamisy quotes Al-Maqrizi as providing that the siege of Tibnin, Hunin and Ramla took place in Dhu'l-Qi'da 664 AH, which is the Islamic month after the fall of Safed. [1]
Background
[edit]Chastel Neuf was on the western side of the Hula Valley, looking down into the valley, and it overlook routes which extended from the interior around Damascus to the Mediterranean coast. The earliest Frankish castle was built in the early 12th century. It was passed several times between the twelfth and the thirteenth century and came back under Frankish rule in 1240.[2]
However, by the year 1260, Baybars had started his campaign against the Frankish strongholds in the Levant. He took many coastal towns in 1265 and in 1266 attacked the Templar strongholds of Safed, which dominated the northern routes of Galilee. Safed fell on 22 July 1266.[1]
Capture
[edit]On the loss of Safed, Mamluk forces spread their rule in the surrounding area over several smaller Frankish settlements. Khamisy references the presence of castles captured "during or directly after" the conquest of Safed, Hunin and Tibnin.[1]
The accounts that survive do not refer to any separate long siege on Chastel Neuf, nor do they give any estimate of the size of the Mamluk army, the Frankish garrison or of casualties, siege engines or terms of capitulation, the only date that can be derived from the accounts of the Mamluk claim of ownership of Hunin and Ramla, which Al-Maqrizi cites, is Dhu'l-Qi'da 664 AH, after the fall of Safed.[1]
Khamisy believes that the sources' truncated accounts of the capture of Hunin and others indicate that their triumph was not the result of a large-scale independent siege but part of a general campaign by the Mamluks. Hurin and Tibnin were far weaker than other important castles like Safed, Krak des Chevaliers and Belvoir, he says.[1]
Aftermath
[edit]With Hunin captured along with Tibnin, the Mamluks' position was consolidated in the control of the frontier north of Galilee. Khamisy states that the possession of the two castles helped Baybars secure other parts of the frontier, but none of the castles was considered a threat like the biggest Frankish castles.[1]
Chastel Neuf was later rebuilt or refortified by Baybars. The medieval phases of the site have been recorded by Denys Pringle in his archaeological survey of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, and archaeological historian Adrian J. Boas dates the reconstruction to 1267, and suggests that much of the remains of the medieval masonry may actually be from the Mamluk phase rather than the Frankish castle.[2][3]
The castle continued to be under the control of the Muslims after Mamluk conquest and it was not returned to Frankish control.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Khamisy, Rabei G. (2018). "Baybars' Strategy of War against the Franks". Journal of Medieval Military History. 16. Boydell & Brewer: 35–62. doi:10.1017/9781787442436.003.
- 1 2 3 Boas, Adrian J. (2016). Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 102. doi:10.4324/9781315707372. ISBN 978-1-138-90025-7.
- ↑ Pringle, Denys (1997). Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer. Cambridge University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-521-46010-1.
Bibliography
[edit]- Boas, Adrian J. (2016). Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East (2nd ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315707372. ISBN 978-1-138-90025-7.
- Khamisy, Rabei G. (2018). "Baybars' Strategy of War against the Franks". Journal of Medieval Military History. 16. Boydell & Brewer: 35–62. doi:10.1017/9781787442436.003.
- Pringle, Denys (1997). Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-46010-1.
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