Siege of Tyre (1124)

Also known as Crusader capture of Tyre

Tyre was the last great Fatimid port on the Levantine coast and the most heavily fortified, jutting out into the Mediterranean on an island linked to the mainland only by a narrow causeway. The siege began in February 1124 under the Patriarch Warmund of Picquigny and the new regent William of Bures — the previous regent, Eustace Grenier, having died in December 1123 — with critical naval support from a Venetian fleet bound by the Pactum Warmundi, a treaty granting Venice extensive trading and territorial privileges in the kingdom in return for sea power. After a five-month land-and-sea blockade the city surrendered on 7 or 8 July 1124. The capture of Tyre completed the conquest of the Levantine coast south of Tripoli and turned the surrounding agricultural region into a major sugar-cane economic base for the kingdom.

Coordinates: 33.2700°, 35.1960°

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