High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alfonso Jordan (French: Alphonse Jourdain) (1103–1148) was the Count of Tripoli from 1105 until 1109 and thereafter Count of Toulouse (as Alfonso I) until his death. He was the son of Raymond IV of Toulouse by his third wife, Elvira of Castile, was born in the castle of Mont-Pelerin, Tripoli, in today`s Lebanon. He was born while his father was on crusade, attempting to create the County of Tripoli on the Palestinian coast. He was surnamed Jordan after being baptised in the Jordan River.