For interest, the full reference is as follows: "1730 - Paid for horses to carry the Prince of Mount Lebanon and his retinue.... £1 10s 0d"
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You need to get
@QifaNabki on this. The 1700s is not his specialty but he will surely know whose it is. Interesting bit of history and now we all want to know the history. -
Thanks! I just stumbled across it in a Georgian account of local parish records but am surprised I can't find any further details...! :)
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Andrew Arsan at Cambridge may be able to assist. Or
@rain_later? It may have been one of the Shihab amirs, who had relations with the British. The Ma'anids, of course, had Fakhr al-Din, who spent five years living in Italy in the previous century. -
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Fascinating and have no idea who it could be. Maanids were extinct by then and this was after the battle of Ain Dara. Could of course be any number of 'princes' not necessarily 'the prince' any more clues?
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Thank you both :) I'm afraid the full entry from the town expenses is simply this: "1730 - Paid for horses to carry the Prince of Mount Lebanon and his retinue.... £1 10s 0d" Nothing else recorded, so far as I can tell...
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Intriguing. Two princes said to be of Mount Lebanon evidently travelled throughout England in the year 1730—there are multiple references in publications in Burney's Collection of C17th/18th Newspapers (
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Only one entry that I've found actually names them: Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal (London, England), Saturday, August 22, 1730; Issue XCVIII. This calls them 'Joseph Abaisci and John Hanner'.
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Possibly one of the Khazen family?
@Extrachelle https://www.khazen.org/index.php/dekhazen/de-khazen-history/3011-origins-of-the-qprince-of-maroniteq-title … They may have been better traveled than the emir back then -
Interesting! Thanks :-)
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The flag sidebar to the right on that wiki page has slightly different dates for Haydar al-Shihab
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How curious! The linked source plumps for 1732 as the end of his reign, fwiw.
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Lol. Curious. Ya right... what's the context for YOUR inquiry? Just curious
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Trying to track down the location of buried chapel on the beach at St Ives & it was mentioned in an early 19thC history of the parish (which sadly doesn't mention the chapel I'm after!) as a 'remarkable entry' in the parish books, which led to me futilely searching for a context!
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I see... Like I say, seems misty, that flag panel on the right of that wiki page has slightly different dates for Haydar al-Shihab.
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