The brothers Nicholas and Thomas Aleman (''

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'' 1277) were the last

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before the title went into abeyance. They lived in the

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. Neither ruled over

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, since the city had been conquered by the

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under

Baibars Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari ( ar, الملك الظاهر ركن الدين بيبرس البندقداري, ''al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Bunduqdārī'') (1223/1228 – 1 July 1277), of Turkic Kipchak ...

in 1265. In 1264, their older brother Hugh died in a riding accident while their father,

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, was still lord of Caesarea. Their mother,

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, the heiress of the fief, disappears from contemporary records after 1255.John L. Lamonte, "The Lords of Caesarea in the Period of the Crusades", ''Speculum'' 22, 2 (1947): 159–60. Nicholas married

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, daughter of Lord

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and already twice widowed: first by King

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and second by Raymond l'Estrange, an Englishman. In 1277, Nicholas assassinated John, son of Guy of Ibelin, in

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. Soon after he was in turn killed by John's brother,

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. After his death, Isabella remarried for the fourth time to William Barlais, but by none of her husbands did she leave any children. According to the ''

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'', Thomas succeeded Nicholas as lord of Caesarea. He was married to Agnes, daughter of

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. They died without heirs, and the title went into abeyance.

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