The Embriaco family were Genoese

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

 adventurers, who played an important part in the history of the Crusader states

Crusader states

The Crusader states were a number of mostly 12th- and 13th-century feudal states created by Western European crusaders in Asia Minor, Greece and the Holy Land , and during the Northern Crusades in the eastern Baltic area...

. They styled themselves "Lord (Seigneur) of Jebail" or "Giblet", "Gibelet" or "Gibelletto". Jebail is historic Byblos

Byblos

Byblos is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal . It is a Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of present-day Lebanon under the current Arabic name of Jubayl and was also referred to as Gibelet during the Crusades...

 (Jbeil) in Lebanon

Lebanon

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They arrived in Kingdom of Jerusalem

Kingdom of Jerusalem

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Catholic kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade. The kingdom lasted nearly two hundred years, from 1099 until 1291 when the last remaining possession, Acre, was destroyed by the Mamluks, but its history is divided into two distinct periods....

 as early as 1099, with Guglielmo Embriaco

Guglielmo Embriaco

Guglielmo Embriaco , was a Genoese merchant and military leader who came to the assistance of the Crusader States in the aftermath of the First Crusade....

 and his brother Primo di Castello. They had Jebail, given to Hugh I Embriaco by Bertrand of Toulouse

Bertrand of Toulouse

Bertrand of Toulouse was count of Toulouse, and was the first count of Tripoli to rule in Tripoli itself....

, from about 1110; it had been taken a few years before. Their power in Jebail lasted - apart from occupation by Saladin

Saladin

Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb , better known in the Western world as Saladin, was an Arabized Kurdish Muslim, who became the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and founded the Ayyubid dynasty. He led Muslim and Arab opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant...

 1187-1197 - to the end to the thirteenth century, when they were defeated by Bohemond VII of Tripoli, and finally pushed out by Muslim

Muslim

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 advances.

• Hugh I Embriaco of Giblet, Lord of Giblet (c. 1110-)
• Hugh II Embriaco of Giblet, Lord of Giblet
• William I Embriaco of Giblet, Lord of Giblet
• William II Embriaco of Giblet, Lord of Giblet (-1157), married Fadie, daughter of Manasses of Hierges
  Manasses of Hierges
  Manasses of Hierges was an important crusader lord, and constable of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.He was the son of Hodierna of Rethel and Héribrand II of Hierges; Hodierna was a sister of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem...
  
  
• Bertrand I Embriaco of Giblet, Lord of Giblet, married Doleta, daughter of Stephen of Armenia
  Stephen of Armenia
  Stephen of Armenia was the Marshal of Armenia, the son of Leo I, Prince of Armenia and Beatrice de Rethel.His father made him Marshal in 1138, due to the invasion of John II Comnenus, and escaped capture by sheltering in Edessa...
  
  

• Hugh III Embriaco, Lord of Giblet (d. 1196), married Stephanie of Milly, and had:
  • Plaisance Embriaco of Giblet (d. c. 1218), married Bohemond IV of Antioch
  • Guy I Embriaco, Lord of Giblet (1197-1241), married in 1204 Alix, daughter of Bohemond III of Antioch, and had:
    • Henri I Embriaco of Giblet, Lord of Giblet (d. c. 1271), married c. 1250 Isabelle d'Ibelin, and had:
      • Guy II Embriaco of Giblet, Lord of Giblet (d. 1282) married Margaret Grenier of Sidon, daughter of Julian Grenier
        Julian Grenier
        Julian Grenier was the Count of Sidon from 1239 to 1260, then becoming merely titular. He was the son and successor of Balian I and Margaret of Brienne...
        
        , Lord of Sidon
        Lordship of Sidon
        The Lordship of Sidon was one of the four major fiefdoms of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, one of the Crusader States. However, in reality, it appears to have been much smaller than the others and had the same level of significance as several neighbors, such as Toron and Beirut, which were...
        
        
        • Marie Embriaco of Giblet (d. Nicosia
          Nicosia
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           1331, buried there), married c. 1295 Philippe d'Ibelin, Seneschal of Cyprus and Jerusalem (1253-1318)
      • Balian Embriaco of Giblet (d. 1313)
      • Baldwin Embriaco of Giblet (d. 1282)
      • John Embriaco of Giblet (d. 1282), married Alaman N (?)
      • Marie Embriaco of Giblet (d. c. 1290), married Balian II d'Ibelin, Titular Consort Lord of Sidon
        Lordship of Sidon
        The Lordship of Sidon was one of the four major fiefdoms of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, one of the Crusader States. However, in reality, it appears to have been much smaller than the others and had the same level of significance as several neighbors, such as Toron and Beirut, which were...
        
        
    • Raymond Embriaco of Giblet
    • Bertrand Embriaco of Giblet
    • Marie Embriaco of Giblet
    • Agnes Embriaco of Giblet, married Barthelemy, Lord of Soudin

• Peter Embriaco of Giblet
  Peter Embriaco of Giblet
  Peter Embriaco of Gibelet, lord of the fief of Gibelet , was the last prince of the House of Giblet in the Levant...
  
  , the last Lord of Giblet

Another branch:

• Guillaume de Gibelet, married Fadie de Hierges and had:
  • Hugues de Giblet (d. c. 1220), Lord of Besmedin, married Agnes de Ham and had:
    • Raymond de Giblet (d. c. 1253), Lord of Besmedin, married firstly Marguerite de Scandelion and secondly Alix de Soudin, and had:
      • Jean I de Giblet, married Poitevine, daughter of a Marshal of Tripoli
        • Jean II de Giblet
          Jean II de Giblet
          Jean II de Giblet was a Christian prince of the House of Giblet, an area of the Holy Land, in the 13th-14th century. His family used to be located in the fief of Cerep in Antioch, before the area was taken by the Mamluks...
          
          (d. c. 1315), married Marguerite du Plessis, without issue.
        • Marie de Giblet
      • Hugues de Giblet, died young
      • Henri de Giblet (d. 1310), Lord of Besmedin, married Marguerite de Morf, without issue
      • Bertrand de Giblet, died young
      • Eschiva de Giblet, married Raymundo Visconti
      • Agnes de Giblet
      • Suzanne de Giblet, died young
      • Marie de Giblet, married Guy de Montolif
    • Girard de Ham de Giblet (d. 1225)
    • Guillaume II de Giblet (d. c. 1243), married Anne de Montignac, and had:
      • Eudes de Giblet, died young
      • Girard de Giblet, died young
      • Jean III de Giblet, Lord of Saint-Foucy, married Gillette d'Angiller, and had:
        • Guillaume III de Giblet, married in 1318 Marie de Verny, without issue
        • Marie de Giblet
        • Eschiva de Giblet (d. c. 1350), married Simon Petit (d. 1355/1338)
      • Estefenie de Giblet, married Amaury le Bernier
      • Marie de Giblet, married Amaury le Flamenc
      • Femie de Giblet, died young
      • Agnes de Giblet, died young
    • Adam de Giblet, Lord of Adelon
    • Agnes de Giblet, married Dietrich von Dendermonde