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tottering kingdom.
His strength grew as truce succeeded truce, and as the factions brawled and argued.
Saladin's moment came with the crowning of King Guy, which was to prove the suicide note of a kingdom.
1. Hamilton "Queens of Jerusalem" pp.162-3.
2. Runciman II, p.424.
3. Ibid., p.425.
4. Hamilton,"The Queens of Jerusalem", pp.159-60.
5. Malouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, p.184.
6. Hamilton, p.170.
7. Runciman II, p.346.
8. Pernoud, p. 151.
9. Hamilton, p.168.
10. Ibid., p.169.
11. Malouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, p.185.
12. Estoire d'Eracles in Pernoud, The Crusades, pp.152-5. Runciman II, pp.449-50.
13. Pernoud, The Crusades, p.156.
Chapter 26:
"I Spy Treason"
In a bittersweet irony, the catalyst for the final destruction of the kingdom was an argument over a woman, between Reynald of Chatillon and Saladin.
Raymond of Tripoli, half Moslem in thought and habit, was able for some time to maintain a fragile truce with Saladin: Reynald of Chatillon, mad as a hawk in his great castle of Kerak, was set on a hair trigger, waiting to be snapped. When he exploded, the
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