CONRAD, MARQUIS OF TYRE

CONRAD, MARQUIS OF TYRE
   threw himself into Tyre when beset by Saladin, and held it till Richard Coeur de Lion and Philip Augustus arrived; was assassinated by emissaries of the Old Man of the Mountain in 1192.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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