John of Ibelin, also called John of Jaffa, was a nobleman and legal scholar of the Kingdom of Jerusalem who lived from 1215 to December 1266. He held the titles of count of Jaffa and Ascalon and lord of Ramla, and between 1264 and 1266 he wrote the Livre des Assises, the longest surviving legal treatise from the Crusader states of the Levant. The work set out the Assizes of Jerusalem, the procedures of the High Court of the kingdom, the structure of its ecclesiastical and baronial institutions, and the military obligations owed by its knights. He was the son of Philip of Ibelin, bailli of Cyprus, fought in the Seventh Crusade in 1249, and served as bailli of Jerusalem after 1254 during the final decades of the kingdom. He died in Nicosia, Cyprus in December 1266.
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