Barisan of Ibelin
Barisan of Ibelin (died 1150) was an important figure in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, and was the founder of the Ibelin family.
His name was later written as "Balian" and he is sometimes known as Balian the Elder, Barisan the Old or Balian I.
Barisan's origins are obscure.
The Ibelins later claimed to be descended from the viscounts of Chartres, but according to Peter W. Edbury, Barisan was probably from northern Italy.
According to Jonathan Riley-Smith, however, he may have indeed been connected to Chartres, as the brother of Hugh of Le Puiset, Count of Jaffa; he would then have also been a cousin to the Montlhéry family of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem.
However, nothing certain is known of his life before 1115, when he appears as constable of Jaffa under Hugh.
In 1120 he was present at the Council of Nablus, where the first laws of the kingdom were promulgated, perhaps representing the new, underaged Count of Jaffa, Hugh II.
Around the same year, his services were rewarded with a marriage to Helvis of Ramla, daughter of Baldwin I of Ramla.
In 1134, when Hugh II rebelled against King Fulk, Barisan supported the king, and soon became prominent at Fulk's court.
In 1141, perhaps as a reward for his loyalty in 1134, he was granted the newly constructed castle of Ibelin, located in the County of Jaffa between Jaffa itself and the Fatimid Egyptian fortress of Ascalon.
It was from this castle that the family took their name.
In 1148 Barisan inherited the nearby lordship of Ramla, through his wife Helvis.
That year, Barisan was also present at the council convened at Acre after the arrival of the Second Crusade, at which it was decided to attack Damascus.
Barisan died in 1150 and Ibelin was inherited by Hugh.
Helvis then married Manasses of Hierges, Constable of Jerusalem.
With Helvis lady of Ramla (daughter of Baldwin I of Ramla), Barisan was the father of:
Philip of Ibelin (died 1318)
Philip of Ibelin( born c. 1255; died 25 November 1318, Nicosia) was Seneschal of the Kingdom of Cyprus.
As one of the sons of Philippa Barlais and her husband Guy of Ibelin, he was a member of the house of Ibelin.
He married to: 1. c. 1280 Maria, daughter of Vahran of Hamousse by Mary of Ibelin, without issue; 2. c. 1295
Maria Embriaco of Gibelletto( d. 1331)
John of Ibelin (died after 1250)
John of Ibelin(" Jean d' Ibelin", died after 1250) was a member of the House of Ibelin and a crusader to the Kingdom of Cyprus.
He was the son of Baldwin of Ibelin, seneschal of Cyprus, and of Alice de Bethsan.
He married Isabelle du Rivet, daughter of Aimery du Rivet and Echive de Saint- Omer.
They had:
Isabella of Ibelin (died 1315)
Isabella of Ibelin( died 1315) was the daughter of Baldwin of Ibelin( d. 1313), lord of Korakou, and of Marguerite de Giblet.
Baldwin of Ibelin (died 1313)
Baldwin of Ibelin( died 1313) was the ruling Lord of Korakou and of Vitzada, son of John of Ibelin( died after 1250) and Isabelle du Rivet.
He married Marguerite de Giblet and they had:
Jane Wigham
Jane Wigham( née Smeal; 1801–1888) was a leading Scottish abolitionist.
She was the stepmother of Eliza Wigham and the second wife of John Wigham.
Eschiva of Ibelin (died 1196)
Eschiva of Ibelin( 1160 – 1196) was a queen consort of Cyprus.
She was the daughter of Baldwin of Ibelin( died 1187), lord of Ramla, and of Richilde de Bethsan, and a member of the influential Ibelin family.
She married Aimery of Cyprus( 1145 – 1205), constable of the kingdom of Jerusalem, later king of Cyprus( 1194 – 1205) and of Jerusalem( 1197 – 1205).
Their children were:
Baldwin of Ibelin
Baldwin of Ibelin, also known as Baldwin II of Ramla (French: "Baudouin d'Ibelin", early 1130s – c. 1187 or 1186/1188), was an important noble of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century.
He was the second son of Barisan of Ibelin, and was the younger brother of Hugh of Ibelin and older brother of Balian of Ibelin.
He first appears in the historical record as a witness to charters in 1148.
After the death of his eldest brother Hugh (third husband of Agnes of Courtenay) in 1169, the castle of Ibelin passed to Baldwin, who remained Lord of Mirabel and Ramla and passed Ibelin to his younger brother Balian.
He introduced the Lusignan family to court in 1174, in the person of Amalric of Lusignan, who had married his daughter Eschiva.
Baldwin and Balian supported Raymond III of Tripoli over Miles of Plancy as regent for King Baldwin IV in 1174, and in 1177 the brothers were present at the Battle of Montgisard.
It is suspected that, after the death of his second wife Isabella, in 1177, he became Raymond of Tripoli's favoured candidate to marry the widowed Princess Sibylla of Jerusalem.
His brother Balian had recently married her stepmother, Dowager Queen Maria Comnena.
The "Chronicle of Ernoul", or "Old French Continuation of William of Tyre", partly written by a former squire of Balian, but thirteenth-century in its current form, claims that Baldwin and Sibylla had been in love and exchanged letters during Baldwin's captivity, but this is highly questionable.
Baldwin was captured in battle at Marj Uyun in 1179, along with Odo de St Amand, Grand Master of the Templars, and Raymond of Tripoli's stepson, Hugh of Tiberias.
Baldwin was ransomed by Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus, and later in 1180 he visited Constantinople.
Supposedly, the emperor sat him in a chair and covered him up to his head in the gold coins that were to be used as his ransom money.
During his stay in Constantinople, the emperor died.
Baldwin was in Jerusalem at the time of Sibylla's wedding in 1180.
Raymond of Tripoli seems to have been planning a coup to marry Sibylla to Baldwin, but the king needed to marry her to a non-native, in order gain support for another crusade from the west.
She was married to Guy of Lusignan, younger brother of Baldwin of Ibelin's son-in-law Amalric.
That same year, the king betrothed his younger half-sister Isabella of Jerusalem, Balian's stepdaughter, to Humphrey IV of Toron, to further reduce the Ibelins' influence.
In 1183 he supported Raymond against Guy, who was by now regent for the ailing Baldwin IV.
Lord Baldwin was among the barons who advised the king to crown Sibylla's son Baldwin V in 1183, while Baldwin IV was still alive; this was an attempt to prevent Guy from succeeding as king.
Baldwin V became sole king while still a child in 1185, and when the young king died in 1186, Sibylla was crowned queen with Guy as her consort.
The Ibelins and Raymond favoured the accession of Isabella, but Humphrey refused to be crowned and cause a civil war, and instead swore allegiance to Sibylla and Guy.
All the other barons of the kingdom paid homage to Guy as well, except for Raymond and Baldwin.
Baldwin placed his young son Thomas under the care of his brother Balian, and exiled himself to the Principality of Antioch, where he was welcomed with great fanfare.
Baldwin considered Guy "a madman and a fool", and refused to pay homage because his father had not paid homage to Guy's father (i.e., regarding Guy as an upstart incomer, where Baldwin was a native baron).
He refused to return to Jerusalem to assist Guy against Saladin, and probably died in his self-imposed exile in 1187.
Guy of Ibelin (1286–1308)
Guy of Ibelin( 1286–1308), Lord of Nicosia, was the son of Balian of Ibelin, seneschal of the kingdom of Cyprus, and of Alice of Lampron.
In 1303, with papal dispensation, he married his cousin Isabella of Ibelin, daughter of Baldwin of Ibelin and of Marguerite de Giblet.
Their only child was Alix of Ibelin, second wife of Hugh IV of Cyprus.
Guy was buried on September 8, 1308 in the Premonstratensian Abbey of Bellapais near Kyrenia, Cyprus.
Philip of Ibelin (died 1304)
Philip of Ibelin( died 1304) was constable of Cyprus.
He was son of Baldwin of Ibelin, Seneschal of Cyprus and Alix, daughter of Walter III of Bethsan and Theodora Comnena- Lathoumnena.
He married c. 1253 to Simone de Montbéliard, granddaughter of Walter of Montbéliard and had issue:

Question: Who is Baldwin Of Ibelin's mother?