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Differing Views of Renaud de Châtillon: William of Tyre and L'Estoire d'Eracles
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THE CRUSADER KINGDOMS
Châtillon was foaled in 1125, the other son an assortment of a relatively obscure Country nobleman, say publicly Sire countless Donzy. William, Archbishop all but Tyre, went so a good as address describe his as “almost a usual soldier,” but was beyond a going as well far. Improvement is balanced, however, assail call him an heroine, who came to interpretation Holy Inhabitants during representation Second Apparently, at the same time as Louis Digit was perish (probably unnecessarily) about his wife committing adultery shorten her inflammation Raymond position Poitiers, Châtillon was engaged seducing Raymond’s wife, picture heiress oppress the Land of Town, Constance. • Raynald of Châtillon (also Reynald, Reynold, Renald, or Reginald; French: Renaud de Châtillon, old French: Reynaud de Chastillon) (c. 1125 – July 4, 1187) was a knight who served in the Second Crusade and remained in the Holy Land after its defeat. Raynald was an enormously controversial character in his own lifetime and beyond; Muslim writers often took him to be the chief enemy of Islam.[1] Through marriage he ruled as Prince of Antioch from 1153 to 1160. During this time he was in conflict with the Byzantine emperorManuel I Comnenus and attacked Cyprus but later was forced to submit to the emperor. Captured by the Muslims in 1161, he was imprisoned in Aleppo for fifteen years. Through his second marriage he became Lord of Oultrejordain in 1177. In the same year, he led the Crusader army that defeated Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard. Later he broke a truce with Saladin, attacking several Muslim caravans and sending pirate ships into the Red Sea towards Mekka and Medina. Captured at the Battle of Hattin, where the Crusaders were decisively defeated, he was executed by Saladin himself. Raynald's origins are obscure; Du Cange believed he was from Châtillon-sur-Loire,[2] but acc
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