The siege of Tripoli in 1289 had…
1290 CE
The siege of Tripoli in 1289 had been spurred by the Venetians and the Pisans, who opposed rising Genoese influence in the area.
Reinforcements of King Henry arrive in Acre in 1290 and drunkenly slaughter peaceable merchants and peasants, Christians and Muslims alike.
Qalawun sends an embassy to ask for an explanation and above all to demand that the murderers be handed over for punishment.
The Frankish response is divided between those who seek to appease him and those who seek a new war.
Qalawun, having received neither an explanation nor the murderers themselves, decides that the ten-year truce he had formed in 1284 with Acre had been broken by the Franks.
He subsequently besieges the city this same year.
He dies n November 10 in Cairo before taking the city, but Acre will be captured the next year by his son Al-Ashraf Khalil.
Despite Qalawun's distrust of his son, Khalil succeeds him following his death.
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