 Toron was then detached from the Principality Of Galilee and made into an independent lordship, though some historians argue a later date for that detachment.The fortress was later conquered by Saladin in 1187 and then taken back by the Franks in 1229.Mamluke Sultan Al-Zahir Baibars of Egypt finally conquered it in 1266 after the fall of Safed and it remained in Arab hands until the Ottomans turned it into a jail.