Denier - Alfonso Jordan

Alfonso Jordan was born in 1103 during the First Crusade siege of Tripoli — the "Jordan" in his name referencing his baptism in the river. He inherited the County of Toulouse and Saint-Gilles upon his father Raymond IV's death in 1105, though spent his early years displaced while the county was administered by regents and contested by rivals. These deniers were struck across a reign defined less by territorial consolidation than by the perpetual gravitational pull of crusading politics in both Languedoc and the Levant. Alfonso died in 1148 at Caesarea, almost certainly poisoned, en route to the Second Crusade.