Humphrey of Montfort was a nobleman of the 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....

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Humphrey was the second son of Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre

Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre

Philip of Montfort, was Lord of La Ferté-Alais and Castres-en-Albigeois 1228–1270, Lord of Tyre 1246–1270, and Lord of Toron aft. 1240–1270...

 by his second wife Maria of Antioch-Armenia

Maria of Antioch-Armenia

Maria of Antioch-Armenia was lady of Toron from 1229 to her death. She was the elder daughter of Raymond-Roupen, prince of Antioch, and of Helvis of Lusignan...

, Lady of Toron

Toron

Toron, now Tibnin or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus....

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On 1 October 1274, Humphrey married Eschive d'Ibelin

Eschive d'Ibelin (1253-1312)

Eschive d'Ibelin was the daughter of Jean d'Ibelin , lord of Beirut, and of Alice de la Roche sur l'Ognon.She became lady of Beirut on the death of her sister Isabelle d'Ibelin in 1282.-Marriages and children:...

 (1253–1312), daughter of John d'Ibelin, Lord of Beirut

John II of Beirut

John of Ibelin , often called John II, was the Lord of Beirut from 1254, named after his grandfather John I, the famous "Old Lord of Beirut"...

 and his wife Alice de la Roche sur l'Ognon

Alice de la Roche

Alice de la Roche, Lady of Beirut, Regent of Beirut was the wife of John II of Ibelin, Lord of Beirut, in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. She was a daughter of Guy I, Lord of Athens. Alice is sometimes referred to as Alice of Athens...

. Their children were:

• three sons and a daughter, all of whom died young
• Amaury of Montfort (died 1304)
• Rupen of Montfort
  Rupen of Montfort
  Rupen of Montfort was a Cypriot nobleman, the second surviving son of Humphrey of Montfort and Eschive d'Ibelin.In 1299, Rupen married Marie d'Ibelin , daughter of Balian of Ibelin, Seneschal of Cyprus...
  
   (died 1313)
• Alix, or Helvis, living in 1295.

In 1282, upon the death of his sister-in-law Isabella of Ibelin

Isabella of Ibelin (1252-1282)

Isabelle d'Ibelin , lady of Beirut from 1264 until her death, queen of Cyprus, daughter of Jean d'Ibelin , lord of Beirut, and of Alice de la Roche sur Ognon.She married :# in 1265 Hugh II, king of Cyprus...

, Eschive succeeded her as lady of Beirut. When Humphrey's older brother Jean

Jean de Montfort (died 1283)

Jean de Montfort was lord of Toron from 1257 to 1266 and Lord of Tyre from 1270 to 1283. He was the son of Philip of Montfort , and his second wife Maria of Antioch-Armenia .When he came of...

 died in 1283, Humphrey was allowed to succeed to Jean's Lordship of Tyre by King Hugh III of Cyprus

Hugh III of Cyprus

Hugh III of Cyprus , born Hughues de Poitiers, later Hughues de Lusignan , called the Great, was the King of Cyprus from 1267 and King of Jerusalem from 1268 . He was the son of Henry of Antioch and Isabella of Cyprus, the daughter of Hugh I...

, who had a few years earlier confirmed the Montforts in their possessions of Tyre but reserved the right to re-take the fiefdom if Jean died without issue. However, upon Humphrey's death 6 months later, the new king Henry II retook the fiefdom (probably because he considered Humphrey's sons too young to guarantee the defence of Tyre) and granted it to his brother Amalric

Amalric, Prince of Tyre

Amalric de Lusignan or Amaury II de Lusignan, Prince of Tyre , of the Lusignan family, was a son of Hugh III of Cyprus and Isabella of Ibelin.-Biography:...

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