Raynald of Châtillon

Raynald of Châtillon
Lord of Hebron and Montréal

Raynald of Châtillon tortures Aimery of Limoges, Latin Patriarch of Antioch
Prince of Antioch
together with Constance
Reign 1153 to 1160 or 1161
Predecessor Constance
Successor Constance
Born c. 1125
Died 4 July 1187 (aged 61–62)
Hattin
Spouse Constance of Antioch
Stephanie of Milly
Issue Agnes of Antioch
Alice
Baldwin of Châtillon (?)
House House of Châtillon
Father Hervé II of Donzy
Religion Catholicism

Raynald of Châtillon, also known as Reynald or Reginald of Châtillon (French: Renaud de Châtillon; c. 1125 – 4 July 1187), was Prince of Antioch from 1153 to 1160 or 1161, and Lord of Oultrejordain from 1175 until his death. He was born as his father's second son in a French noble family. After losing a part of his patrimony, he joined the Second Crusade in 1147. He settled in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and served in the royal army as a mercenary.

Raynald married Constance, the reigning Princess of Antioch, in 1153, although her subjects opposed the marriage. He was always in need of funds. He captured and tortured Aimery of Limoges, Latin Patriarch of Antioch, because Aimery had refused to pay a subsidy to him. Raynald launched a plundering raid in Cyprus in 1155, causing great destruction. Four years later, the Byzantine Emperor, Manuel I Komnenos, came to Antioch at the head of a large army, forcing Raynald to beg for his mercy. Raynald made a raid in the valley of the river Euphrates at Marash to seize booty from the local peasants in 1160 or 1161, but he was captured by the governor of Aleppo.

Raynald was held in prison till 1176. After his release for a large ransom, he did not return to Antioch, because his wife had meanwhile died. He married, Stephanie of Milly, the wealthy heiress of Oultrejordain. Since Baldwin IV of Jerusalem also granted Hebron to him, Raynald was one of the wealthiest barons of the realm. He controlled the caravan routes between Egypt and Syria. Baldwin, who suffered from leprosy, made him regent in 1177. Raynald led the crusader army that defeated Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard. He was the only Christian leader to pursue an offensive policy against Saladin, making plundering raids against the caravans travelling near his domains. He built a fleet of five ships which plundered the coast of the Read Sea, threatening the route of the Muslim pilgrims towards Mecca in early 1183. Saladin pledged that he would never forgive Raynald.

Raynald was a firm supporter of Baldwin IV's sister, Sybilla, and her husband, Guy of Lusignan, during the conflicts in connection with the succession of the king. Sibylla and Guy could seize the throne in 1186 due to Raynald's co-operation with her uncle, Joscelin III of Courtenay. Raynald attacked a caravan travelling from Egypt to Syria in late 1186 or early 1187, claiming that the truce between Saladin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem did not bind him. After Raynald refused to pay a compensation, Saladin invaded the kingdom and annihilated the crusader army in the Battle of Hattin. Raynald was captured in the battlefield. Saladin personally beheaded him after he refused to convert to Islam. Most historians have regarded Raynald as an irresponsible adventurer whose lust for booty caused the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, but some say that he was the only crusader leader who tried to prevent Saladin from unifying the nearby Muslim states.

Early years

Raynald was the younger son of Hervé II, Lord of Donzy.[1][2] In older historiography, Raynald was described as the son of Geoffrey, Count of Gien,[3] but Jean Richard demonstrated Raynald's kinship with the Lords of Donzy.[1] They were influential noblemen in the Duchy of Burgundy, claiming the Palladii (a family of Roman senators) as their ancestors.[1]

Raynald was born around 1123.[1] He received Châtillon-sur-Loire,[1] but a part of his patrimony was "violently and unjustly confiscated", according to one of his letters.[4] He came to the Kingdom of Jerusalem before 1153 when he was mentioned as a mercenary fighting in the army of Baldwin III of Jerusalem.[5] According to modern historians, he had joined the crusade of Louis VII of France.[1] Louis departed from France in June 1147.[6] The 12th-century historian William of Tyre, who was Raynald's opponent, claimed that Raynald was "almost a common soldier".[1] Louis VII left the Holy Land for France in summer 1149, but Raynald stayed behind in Palestine.[1][7]

Raymond, Prince of Antioch, and thousands of his soldiers fell in the Battle of Inab on 28 June 1148, leaving the principality almost undefended.[8] Baldwin III of Jerusalem (who was the cousin of Raymond's widow, Constance, the ruling Princess of Antioch) came to Antioch at the head of his army at least three times during the following years.[9] To secure the defence of the principality, Baldwin tried to persuade her to re-marry, but she did not accept his candidates.[10] She also refuted John Roger whom the Byzantine Emperor, Manuel I Komnenos, proposed for husband.[11]

Steven Runciman says, Raynald accompanied Baldwin to Antioch in 1151 and settled in the principality.[3] It is certain that Raynald fought in Baldwin's army during the Siege of Ascalon in early 1153.[2] He may have already been engaged to Constance of Antioch (as Runciman suggests),[3] or their betrothal took place during Raynald's visit to the principality before the end of the siege (as Malcolm Barber proposes).[4] They kept their betrothal in secret until Baldwin gave his permission to their marriage.[3][4]

Prince of Antioch

Four crusaders states surrounded by Moslim states, and the Byzantine territories in Asia Minor
The crusader states around 1165
A crowned man sitting on a throne in a tent with an other man (also wearing a crown) kneeling before him
Raynald swears fealty to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos

After Baldwin granted his consent, Constance married Raynald.[4][3][12] He was installed prince in or shortly before May 1153.[13] In that month, he confirmed the privileges of the Venetian merchants.[14] William of Tyre recorded that his subjects were astonished that their "famous, powerful and well-born" princess condescended to "marry a kind of mercenary knight".[5] The wealthy Latin Patriarch of Antioch, Aimery of Limoges, was Raynald's principal opponent.[15] He even refused to pay a subsidy to him.[12] In retaliation, Raynald captured and tortured Aimery, forcing him to sit naked and covered with honey in the sun, before imprisoning him.[12][16] Aimery was only released on Baldwin III's demand, but he soon left his see for Jerusalem.[12][16]

Emperor Manuel sent his envoys to Antioch, proposing to recognize Raynald as the new prince if he launched a campaign against the Armenians of Cilicia who had risen up against Byzantine rule.[12][15] Manuel also promised that he would compensate Raynald for the expenses of the campaign.[12] After Raynald defeated the Armenians at Alexendretta in 1155, the Knights Templar seized the region of the Syrian Gates that the Armenians had recently captured.[15] Although the sources are unclear, Runciman and Barber agree that it was Raynald who granted the territory to them.[15][16]

Always in need of funds, Raynald urged Manuel to send the promised subsidy to him, but Manuel failed to pay the money.[16] Raynald made an alliance with Thoros II of Cilicia.[17] They attacked Cyprus, subjecting the Byzantine island to a three week orgy of violence in early 1156.[17] They only left Cyprus on the rumour of an imperial fleet approaching towards the island, but only after they had forced all Cypriots to ransom themselves, with the exception of the wealthiest individuals (including Emperor Manuel's nephew, John Doukas Komnenos) whom they carried off to Antioch.[17][18] Cyprus could never entirely recover from the devastation that Raynald's and Thoros's marauding raid caused.[17][18]

Taking advantage of the presence of Thierry, Count of Flanders and his army in the Holy Land and an earthquake destroying most towns of Northern Syria, Baldwin III of Jerusalem invaded the Moslim territories in the valley of the Orontes River in autumn 1157.[19] Raynald joined the royal army and they laid siege to Shaizar.[18][19] Shaizar was held by a band of Assassins, but it had been ruled by the Munqidhites who paid an annual tribute to Raynald.[19] Before the capitulation of the garrison, Baldwin decided to grant the fortress to Thierry of Flanders, but Raynald demanded that the count should do homage to him for the town.[20] After Thierry sharply refused to swear fealty to an upstart, the crusaders abandoned the siege.[20] They marched on Harenc (present-day Harem, Syria), which had been an Antiochene fortress before Nur ad-Din, atabeg of Aleppo captured it in 1150.[21] After the crusaders captured Harenc in February 1158, Raynald granted it to the Flemish Raynald of Saint-Valery.[20][22]

Emperor Manuel unexpectedly invaded Cilicia, forcing Thoros II to seek refuge in the mountains in December 1158.[23][24] Raynald hurried to Mamistra to voluntarily make his submission to the emperor.[23][22] On Manuel's demand, he and his retainers walked barefoot and bareheaded through the streets of the town to the imperial tent where he prostrated himself, begging for mercy.[25] William of Tyre stated that "the glory of the Latin world was put to shame" on this occasion, because envoys from the nearby Muslim and Christian rulers were also present at Raynald's humilation.[26] Manuel only forgave him after Raynald agreed to accept a Greek Patriarch in Antioch.[25] Raynald also had to promise that he would allow a Byzantine garrison to stay in the citadel whenever it was required and would send a troop to fight in the Byzantine army.[25] Before long, Baldwin III of Jerusalem persuaded Manuel to consent to the return of the Latin patriarch, Aimery, to Antioch, instead of installing a Greek patriarch.[24][27] When the emperor entered Antioch with much pomp and ceremony on 12 April 1159, Reginald hold the bridle of Manuel's horse.[24][27] Manuel left the town eight days later.[28]

Raynald made a plundering raid in the valley of the river Euphrates at Marash to seize cattle, horses and camels from the local peasants in November 1160 or 1161.[29][30] Majd al-Din, governor of Aleppo, attacked Raynald and his retinue on the way back to Antioch.[29] Raynald fought bravely, but the Moslim warriors unhorsed and captured him.[30] He was sent to Aleppo where he was put into jail.[30]

Captivity and release

A captive man is taken to the open gate of a fortress; a flock of sheep
Raynald is taken to his prison in Aleppo

Almost nothing is known about Raynald's life while he was kept in jail for fifteen years.[26] He shared his prison with Joscelin III of Courtenay who had been captured a couple of months before.[31] In Raynald's absence, Constance wanted to rule alone, but Baldwin III of Jerusalem made Patriarch Aimery regent for her fifteen-year-old son (Raynald's stepson), Bohemond III of Antioch.[31][29] Constance died around 1163, shortly after her son reached the age of majority.[32] Her death deprived Raynald of his claim to Antioch.[26] However, he had become an important personality, with prominent family connections.[26] His stepdaughter, Maria of Antioch, married to Manuel I Komnenos in 1161.[26][33] Raynald's own daughter, Agnes, became the wife of Béla III of Hungary.[26][34]

Gümüshtekin, governor of Aleppo, one of the last independent Muslim rulers in Syria after Saladin had conquered almost all neighboring states, released Raynald, along with Joscelin of Courtenay and all other Christians prisoners in 1176.[35] Raynald's ransom, fixed at 120,000 gold dinars, reflected his prestige.[26] It was most probably paid by Manuel I Komnenos, according to Malcolm Barber and Bernard Hamilton.[36][37]

Raynald and Joscelin came to Jerusalem before 1 September 1176.[38] He became a close ally of Joscelin's sister, Agnes of Courtenay.[39] She was the mother of the young Baldwin IV of Jerusalem who suffered from leprosy.[39][40] Hugo Etherianis, who lived in Constantinople after around 1165, mentioned in the preface of his About the Procession of the Holy Spirit that he had asked "Prince Raynald" to deliver a copy of the work to Aimery of Limoges.[41] According to historian Bernard Hamilton, these words suggest that Raynald led the embassy that Baldwin IV sent to Constantinople to confirm an alliance between the Jerusalem and the Byzantine Empire against Egypt.[41]

Lord of Oultrejordain

A seal depicting a bird of pray and a fortress
Raynald's seal

Raynald married Stephanie of Milly, the lady of Oultrejordain, and Baldwin IV also granted him Hebron.[42] The first extant charter styling Raynald as "Lord of Hebron and Montréal" was issued in November 1177.[43] He owed service of 60 knights to the Crown, showing that he became one of the wealthiest barons of the realm.[42][44] From his castles at Kerak and Montréal, he controlled the routes between the two main parts of Saladin's empire, Syria and Egypt.[45] Raynald and Baldwin IV's brother-in-law, William of Montferrat, jointly granted large estates to Rodrigo Álvarez, the founder of the Order of Mountjoy, to strengthen the deffence of the southern and eastern frontier of the kingdom.[42] After William of Montferrat died in June 1177, the king made Raynald regent.[46]

Baldwin IV's cousin, Philip I, Count of Flanders came to the Holy Land at the head of a crusader army in early August 1177.[45] The king offered him the regency, but Philip refuted the offer, saying that he did not want to stay in the kingdom.[47] Philip declared that he was "willing to take orders" from anybody, but he protested when Baldwin confirmed Raynald's position as "regent of the kingdom and of the armies".[48] Philip left the kingdom a month after his arrival.[49]

Saladin invaded the region of Ascalon, but the royal army launched a defeat on him in the Battle of Montgisard on 25 November.[50] William of Tyre and Ernoul attributed the victory to the king, but Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad and other Muslim authors recorded that Raynald was the supreme commander.[51] Saladin himself referred to the battle as a "major defeat which God mended with the famous battle of Hattin",[52] according to Baha ad-Din.[53]

Raynald was the first among the witnesses to sign most royal charters between 1177 and 1180, showing that he was the king's most influential official during this period.[54] Raynald became one of the principal supporters of Guy of Lusignan who married the king's elder sister, Sybilla, in early 1180, although many barons of the realm had opposed the marriage.[55][56] The half-sister of the king and Sibylla, Isabella (whose stepfather, Balian of Ibelin was Guy of Lusignan's opponent) was engaged to Raynald's stepson, Humphrey IV of Toron, in autumn 1180.[55] Baldwin IV dispatched Raynald, along with Heraclius, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, to mediate a reconciliation between Bohemond III of Antioch and Patriarch Aimery in early 1181.[57][58] Roupen III, Lord of Cilician Armenia, married Raynald's stepdaughter, Isabella of Toron.[59]

A castle built of stones on a cliff near a settlements
Kerak Castle, a major fortress in the Lordship of Oultrejordain (at present-day Al-Karak in Jordan)

Raynald was the only Christian leader who fought against Saladin in the 1180s.[60][61] The contemporaneous Ernoul mentioned two raids that Raynald made against caravans travelling between Egypt and Syria, breaking the truce.[62] Modern historians debate whether Raynald's desire for booty inspired these military actions,[63] or they were deliberate maneuvers to prevent Saladin from annexing new territories.[61] Saladin tried to seize Aleppo after As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, the Zengid emir of the town died on 18 November 1181.[64] Raynald stormed into Saladin's territory, reaching as far as Tabuk on the route between Damascus and Mecca in late 1181.[65] Saladin's nephew, Farrukh Shah, invaded Oultrejourdain instead of attacking Aleppo to compel Raynald to return from the Arabian desert.[66] Before long, Raynald seized a caravan and imprisoned its members.[66] On Saladin's protest, Baldwin IV ordered Raynald to free them, but Raynald did not obey him.[67] His defiance annoyed the king, enabling Raymond III of Tripoli's partisans to reconcile him with the monarch.[68] Raymond's return to the royal court put an end to the paramound position of Raynald.[69] He accepted the new situation and cooperated with the king and Raymond during the fights against Saladin in summer 1182.[69]

Saladin revived the Egyptian naval force and tried to capture Beirut, but his ships were forced to retreat.[70] Raynald ordered the building of five ships which were carried to the Gulf of Aqaba at the northern end of the Red Sea in February 1183.[71][72][73] Raynald laid siege the Egyptian fortress on Ile de Graye.[72] Part of his fleet made a plundering raid along the coasts, threatening the security of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.[72][74] Raynald left Ile de Graye, but his fleet continued the siege.[74] Saladin's brother, Al-Adil, the governor of Egypt, dispatched a fleet to the Red Sea.[74] The Egyptians relieved Ile de Graye and destroyed the Christian fleet.[74] Raynald's soldiers were executed and Saladin took an oath that he would never forgive him.[74] Raynald's naval expedition "showed a remarkable degree of initiative", according to historian Bernard Hamilton.[75] Most modern historians agree that it contributed to the unification of Syria and Egypt under Saladin's rule.[75] Saladin captured Aleppo in June 1183, completing the encirclement of the crusader states.[76]

Baldwin IV who had become seriously ill made Guy of Lusignan bailli in October 1183.[77] Within a month, Baldwin dismissed Guy, and had Guy's five-year-old stepson, Baldwin V, crowned king.[78] Raynald was not present at the child's coronation, because he attended the wedding of his stepson, Humphrey, and Baldwin IV's sister, Isabella, in Kerak.[79] Saladin unexpectedly invaded Oultrejordain, forcing the local inhabitants to seek refuge in Kerak.[79] After Saladin broke into the town, Raynald could only escape to the fortress because one of his retainers hindered the attackers from seizing the bridge between the town and the castle.[80] Saladin laid siege to Kerak.[81] According to Ernoul, Raynald's wife sent dishes from the wedding to Saladin, persuading him to stop bombarding the tower where her son and his wife stayed.[81] After envoys from Kerak informed Baldwin IV of the siege, the royal army left Jerusalem for Kerak under the command of the king and Raymond III of Tripoli.[81] Saladin abandoned the siege before their arrival on 4 December.[81] On Saladin's order, Izz al-Din Usama had a fortress built at Ajloun, near the northern border of Raynald's domains.[82]

A crowned woman who sits on a throne puts a crown on the head of a man who kneels before her; they are surrounded by two bishops, other clerics and secular lords and ladies
Sybilla of Jerusalem, who was proclaimed queen with Raynald's assistance, crowns her husband, Guy of Lusignan

Baldwin IV died in early 1185.[72] His successor, the child Baldwin V died in late summer 1186.[83] The High Court of Jerusalem had ruled that neither Baldwin V's mother, Sybilla (who was Guy of Lusignan's wife), nor her sister, Isabella (who was the wife of Raynald's stepson), could be crowned without the decision of the pope, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the kings of France and England about Baldwin V's lawful successor.[84] However, Sybilla's uncle, Joscelin III of Courtenay, took control of Jerusalem with the support of Raynald and other influential prelates and royal officials.[85][86] Raynald urged the townspeople to accept Sybilla as the lawful monarch, according to the Estoire de Eracles.[87] The bailli, Raymond III of Tripoli, and his supporters tried to prevent her coronation and reminded her partisans of the decision of the High Court.[88] Ignoring their protest, Raynald and Gerard of Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, accompanied Sybilla to the Holy Sepulchre where she was crowned.[88] She also arranged the coronation of her husband, although he was unpopular even among her supporters.[89][90] Her opponents tried to persuade Raynald's stepson, Humphrey, to claim the crown on his wife's behalf, but Humphrey deserted them and swore fealty to Sybilla and Guy.[91][90] Raynald headed the list of secular witnesses in four royal charters issued between 21 October 1186 and 7 March 1187, showing that he became a principal figure in the new king's court.[92]

Ali ibn al-Athir and other Muslim historians recorded that Raynald made a truce with Saladin in 1186.[82] This "seems unlikely to be true", according to historian Bernard Hamilton, because the truce between the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Saladin covered Raynald's domains.[82] In late 1186 or early 1187, a rich caravan travelled through Oultrejordain from Egypt to Syria.[82] Ali ibn al-Athir mentioned that a group of armed men accompanied the caravan.[93] Raynald seized the caravan, possibly because he regarded the presence of soldiers as a breach of the truce, according to Hamilton.[94][95] He took all the merchants and their families prisoner, seized a large amount of booty and refused to receive envoys from Saladin demanding compensation.[95][96] Saladin sent his envoys to Guy of Lusignan who accepted his demands.[95] However, Raynald refused to obey the king, stating that "he was lord of his land, just as Guy was lord of his, and he had no truces with the Saracens".[95] Saladin proclaimed the jihad (or holy war) against the kingdom, taking an oath that he would personally kill Raynald for breaking the truce.[97]

Prince Reynald, lord of Kerak, was one of the greatest and wickedest of the Franks, the most hostile to the Muslims and the most dangerous to them. Aware of this, Saladin targeted him with blockades time after time and raided his territory occasion after occasion. As a result he was abashed and humbled and asked Saladin for a truce, which was granted. The truce was made and duly sworn to. Caravans then went back and forth between Syria and Egypt. [In the year 582 AH], a large caravan, rich in goods and with many men, accompanied by a good number of soldiers, passed by him. The accursed one treacheously seized every last man and made their goods, animals and weapons his booty. Those he made captive he consigned to his prisons. Saladin sent blaming him, deploring his treacherous action and threatening him if he did not release the captives and the goods, but he would not agree to do that and persisted in his refusal. Saladin vowed that, if ever had him in his power, he would kill him.
— Ali ibn al-Athir: The Complete History[98]

Capture and execution

A bearded man wearing a turban with a sword in his hand and a beheaded body before a tent
Saladin beheads Raynald at Hattin

The Estoire de Eracles wrongly claimed that Saladin's sister was also among the prisoners whom Raynald when he seized the caravan.[82][96] Actually, she returned from Mecca to Damascus in a subsequent pilgrim-caravan in March 1187.[82] To protect her against an attack by Raynald, Saladin escorted the pilgrims while they were travelling near Oultrejordain.[99] Saladin stormed into Oultrejordain on 26 April and pillaged Raynald's domains for a month.[100] Thereafter Saladin marched to Ashtara where the troops coming from all parts of his realm assembled.[101]

The Christian forces assembled at Sepphoris.[101][102] Raynald and Gerard of Ridefort convinced Guy of Lusignan to take the initiative and attack Saladin's army, although Raymond III of Tripoli had tried to persuade the king to avoid direct fight with Saladin's army.[93][103] During the debate, Raynald accused Raymond of Tripoli of co-operating with the enemy.[104] Saladin launched a crushing defeat on the crusader army in the Battle of Hattin on 4 July.[105] Most commanders of the Christian army were captured in the battlefield.[106]

Guy of Lusignand and Raynald were among the prisoners who were brought before Saladin.[107] Saladin handed a cup of iced rose water to Guy.[108] After drinking from the cup, the king handed it to Raynald.[108] According to Ernoul's chronicle, Raynald refused to drink, but Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani recorded that Raynald drank from the cup.[107] Since customary law prescribed that a man who gave food or drink to a prisoner could not murder him, Saladin stated that it was Guy who had given the cup to Raynald.[108] Saladin called Raynald to his tent.[107] He accused him of many crimes (including brigandage and blasphemy), offering him to choose between conversion to Islam or death.[93][108] After Raynald flatly refused to convert, Saladin took a sword and struck Raynald with it.[93][108] Raynald fell to the ground and Saladin beheaded him for the honour of Islam.[93][107] According to Ernoul, Raynald's head was brought to Damascus to be "dragged along the ground to show the Saracens whom the prince had wronged that vengeance had been exacted".[107]

Saladin invited the [Guy] to sit beside him, and when [Raynald] entered in his turn, he seated him next to his king and reminded him of his misdeeds. "How many times have you sworn an oath and violated it? How many times have you signed agreements you have never respected?" Raynald answered through a translator: "Kings have always acted thus. I did nothing more." During this time King Guy was gasping with thirst, his head dangling as though drunk, his face betraying great fright. Saladin spoke reassuring words to him, had cold water brought, and offered it to him. The king drank, then handed what remained to Raynald, who slaked his thirst in turn. The sultan then said to Guy: "You did not ask permission before giving him water. I am therefore not obliged to grant him mercy." After pronouncing these words, the sultan smiled, mounted his horse, and rode off, leaving the captives in terror. He supervised the return of the troops, and then came back to his tent. He ordered Raynald brought there, then advanced before him, sword in hand, and struck him between the neck and the shoulder-blade. When Raynald fell, he cut off his head and dragged the body by its feet to the king, who began to tremble. Seeing him thus upset, Saladin said to him in a reassuring tone: "This man was killed only because of his maleficence and perfidy"
— Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani

Family

A tomb made of white stone, depicting a man and a women with lions at their feet
Tomb of Raynald's daughter, Agnes (or Anna), and her husband, Béla III of Hungary (Matthias Church, Budapest)

Raynald's first wife, Constance of Antioch, was the only daughter of Bohemond II of Antioch and Alice of Jerusalem.[109] Constance was born in 1128.[110] She succeeded her father in Antioch in 1130.[110] She was given in marriage to Raymond of Poitiers in 1136.[111] Years after his dead, Raynald married the widowed Constance and seized Antioch.[3]

Their daughter, Agnes, moved to Constantinople in early 1170 to marry Kaisar Alexios-Béla, the younger brother of Stephen III of Hungary, who lived in the Byzantine Empire.[112] Agnes was renamed Anna in Constantinople.[113] Her husband succeeded his brother as Béla III of Hungary in 1172.[114] She followed her husband to Hungary, where she gave birth to seven children before she died around 1184.[113] Raynald's and Constance's second daughter, Alice, became the third wife of Azzo VI of Este in 1204.[115] Raynald also had a son, Baldwin, from Constance, according to historian Bernard Hamilton, but Steven Runciman says that Baldwin was Constance's son from her first husband.[116][117] Baldwin moved to Constantinople in the early 1160s.[32] He died fighting at the head of a Byzantine cavalry regiment in the Battle of Myriokephalon on 17 September 1176.[118]

Raynald's second wife, Stephanie of Milly, was the younger[119] daughter of Philip of Milly, Lord of Nablus, and Isabella of Oultrejourdain.[120] She was born around 1145.[121] Her first husband, Humphrey III of Toron, died around 1173.[122] She inherited Oultrejourdain from her niece, Beatrice Brisbarre, shortly before she married Miles of Plancy in early 1174.[122] Miles of Plancy was murdered in October 1174.[123][119]

Legacy

Most information of Raynald's life was recorded by Moslim authors who were hostile to him.[124] Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad described him as a "monstrous infidel and terrible oppressor"[125] in his biography of Saladin.[126] Saladin compared Raynald with the king of Ethiopia who tried to destroy Mecca in 570 and was mentioned as the "Elephant" in the Surah CV of the Quran.[127]

Most Christian authors who wrote of Raynald in the 12th and 13th centuries were influenced by Raynald's political opponent, William of Tyre.[124] The author of the Estoire of Eracles stated that the Raynald's attack against a caravan at the turn of 1186 and 1187 was the "reason of the loss of the Kingdom of Jerusalem".[82] Modern historians has usually also treated Raynald as a "maverick who did more harm to the Christian than to the Moslem cause".[124] Steven Runciman describes him as marauder who could not resist the temptation presented by the rich caravans passing through Oultrejordain.[63] Runciman argues that Raynald attacked a caravan during the 1180 truce because he "could not understand a policy that ran counter to his wishes".[63] According to Malcolm Barber, Raynald's behavior during the reign of Guy of Lusignan shows that the kingdom had broken up into "a collection of semi-autonomous fiefdoms" by that time.[95]

Some Christian authors regarded Raynald as a martyr for the faith.[93] Peter of Blois dedicated a book (entitled Passion of Prince Raynald of Antioch) to him.[93] Among modern historians, Bernard Hamilton describes Raynald as "an experienced and responsible crusader leader" who made several attempts to prevent Saladin from uniting the Moslim realms along the borders of the crusader states.[128]

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  • Makk, Ferenc (1994). "Anna (1.); Béla III". In Kristó, Gyula; Engel, Pál; Makk, Ferenc. Korai magyar történeti lexikon (9-14. század) [Encyclopedia of the Early Hungarian History (9th-14th centuries)] (in Hungarian). Akadémiai Kiadó. pp. 47, 91–92. ISBN 963-05-6722-9. 
  • Runciman, Steven (1989). A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-06163-6. 

Further reading

  • Hamilton, Bernard: "Reynald of Chatillon". In: Alan V. Murray (ed.), The Crusades. An Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara 2006
  • Hillenbrand, Carole, "Some reflections on the imprisonment of Reynald of Châtillon", in Texts, Documents and Artefacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards, ed. C.F. Robinson, Leiden, 2003.
  • Maalouf, Amin, Crusades Through Arab Eyes, 1985.
  • Peter of Blois Petri Blesensis tractatus duo: Passio Raginaldi principis Antiochie, Conquestio de dilatione vie Ierosolimitane, ed. R.B.C Huygens, in Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis vol. CXCIV, 2002.
  • Richard, Jean, "Aux origines d'un grand lignage: des palladii Renaud de Châtillon", in Media in Francia: Recueil de mélanges offert à Karl Ferdinand Werner, 1989.

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