Editing Safed (section)

====Second Crusader period====
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| caption1 = Ruins of the [[Citadel of Safed]]
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| footer   = The [[Crusades|Crusader]]-[[Mamluk Egypt|Mamluk]]-era fortress of Safed
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As an outcome of the treaty negotiations between the Crusader leader [[Theobald I of Navarre]] and the Ayyubid [[al-Salih Ismail, Emir of Damascus]], in 1240 Safed once again passed to Crusader control.<ref name="Luz34" /> Afterward, the Templars were tasked with rebuilding the [[Citadel of Safed]], with efforts spearheaded by [[Benedict of Alignan]], [[Bishop of Marseille]].<ref name="Luz34" /> The rebuilding is recorded in a short treatise, ''[[De constructione castri Saphet]]'', from the early 1260s.<ref>Pringle 1985, p. 139.</ref> The reconstruction was completed at the considerable expense of 40,000 [[bezant]]s in 1243.<ref name="Luz34" /><ref name="AmitaiPreiss757">Amitai-Preiss 1995, p. 757.</ref> The new fortress was larger than the original, with a capacity for 2,200 soldiers in time of war, and with a resident force of 1,700 in peacetime.<ref name="AmitaiPreiss757" /><ref>Luz 2014, pp. 34–35.</ref> The garrison's goods and services were provided by the town or large village growing rapidly beneath the fortress, which, according to Benoit's account, contained a market, "numerous inhabitants" and was protected by the fortress.<ref name="Luz35" /> The settlement also benefited from trade with travelers on the route between [[Acre, Israel|Acre]] and the Jordan Valley, which passed through Safed.<ref name="Luz34" />