Editing Eighth Crusade (section)

===The Kingdom of Jerusalem===
The Seventh Crusade officially ended on 24 April 1254 with the departure of Louis IX of France from the Holy Land. He left [[Geoffrey of Sergines]] as his representative with  the official post of [[Officers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem#Seneschals|seneschal]] to the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. The ''[[Officers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem#Bailiffs|bailli]]'' of the kingdom was [[John of Ibelin (jurist)|John of Ibelin]], succeeding his cousin [[John of Arsuf]] in 1254. John of Arsuf returned to Cyprus where he was advising [[Plaisance of Antioch]], the regent to [[Hugh II of Cyprus]] who had claim to both kingdoms––Cyprus and Jerusalem. The death of [[Conrad IV of Germany|Conrad II of Jerusalem]] in May 1254 had given the nominal crown of Jerusalem to his two-year-old son [[Conradin]].<ref>Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "[[wikisource:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Conradin|Conradin]]". ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. '''6''' (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 968–969.</ref> Prior to his departure, Louis had arranged for a truce with Damascus, to last through October 1256, reflecting the fear that [[an-Nasir Yusuf]], the emir of Damascus and Aleppo, had of the Mongols. Because of this, he had no wish for war with the Franks. [[Aybak]], the sultan of Egypt, also wished to avoid war and in 1255 made a ten-year truce with the Franks. [[Jaffa]] was expressly excluded from the truce, with the sultan wishing to secure it as a Palestinian port. The established frontier was hardly secure. In January 1256, the Mamluk governor of Jerusalem led an expedition in March to punish a band of Frankish raiders, he was defeated and killed. Aybak subsequently made a new treaty with Damascus that was mediated by caliph [[al-Musta'sim]]. Both Muslim leaders renewed their truces with the Franks, this time to also cover Palestine and Jaffa.{{sfn|Gibb|1969|pp=712–714|loc=The Ayyubids and the Mamluks}}