thumb|upright|the marriage of humphrey and isabella. humphrey iv of toron (c. 1166 &ndash; before 1197) was the lord of toron, kerak, and oultrejordain in the crusader kingdom of jerusalem. ==biography== he was the son of humphrey iii of toron and stephanie of milly, heiress of oultrejourdain, and grandson of humphrey ii, constable of jerusalem. he was also a stepson of stephanie's second and third husbands miles of plancy and raynald of chÃ¢tillon. humphrey's sister isabella was married to ruben iii of armenia. humphrey iv became lord of toron when his grandfather humphrey ii died of wounds after saving king baldwin iv's life at banias in 1179. in 1180 he became betrothed to isabella of jerusalem, daughter of amalric i and half-sister to baldwin, under the agreement that toron would become a royal territory. this was arranged by the king to repay his debt of honour to humphrey ii, and to remove isabella from the political camp of her stepfather, balian of ibelin. she does not seem to have been allowed to contact with her parents after this. in november 1183 the teenage humphrey and the eleven-year-old isabella were married in the fortress of kerak (the seat of the lordship of oultrejourdain), which was besieged by saladin shortly afterwards. humphrey's mother convinced saladin not to bombard the tower in which the newly married young couple were lodged, although he continued to besiege the rest of the fortress; kerak was eventually relieved by king baldwin iv. in 1186, when baldwin v died, humphrey's stepfather raynald tried to convince him to claim the throne in right of isabella, whom her mother dowager queen maria comnena and the ibelin faction wanted to crown as soon as possible. however, humphrey, who was then about twenty, chose to support guy of lusignan, husband of isabella's half-sister sibylla, to whom humphrey swore fealty. reluctantly, raynald and the other nobles followed his support, as did the ibelins, even though guy, who had arrived in outremer after 1177, had previously been deprived of the regency by his dying brother-in-law baldwin iv due to his conduct at the 1183 siege of kerak. guy proved to be an ineffective king, and saladin conquered most of the kingdom in 1187. humphrey was captured at the battle of hattin that year, but was released and returned to kerak to prepare for its defence. he was captured again when kerak fell in 1189, but was again set free. the barons of jerusalem had only begrudgingly accepted guy as king because of the lack of a rival candidate (due to humphrey's diffidence), and after the fal
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