Balian III of Beirut

Balian III (c. 1209–1247), son of John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut, and Melisende of Arsuf, won early fame at the Battle of Agridi in Cyprus in 1232, defending a pass against the Lombard troops of Emperor Frederick II. Assigned to the rearguard with his father, he went to the front instead.

Succeeding his father as lord of Beirut in 1236, he led the baronial party in the War of the Lombards and in 1242 commanded the siege that took Tyre from its imperial garrison. He married Eschiva of Montbéliard and was succeeded by his son Hugh in 1247.