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by Jeffrey Lee


  3Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddima, trans. F. Rosenthal (New York, 1958), quoted in Carole Hillenbrand, ‘On the Captivity of Reynald de Chatillon’, in Texts, Documents and Artefacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D. S. Richards, ed. Chase F. Robinson (Leiden, 2003)

  4William of Tyre, trans. Babcock and Krey, op. cit., Book XVIII, Chapter XXXIV

  5Brian Keenan, An Evil Cradling (London, 1993), p.103

  6Edna J. Hunter, ‘The Vietnam POW Veteran; Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Captivity’, in Stress Disorders among Vietnam Veterans, ed. Charles R. Figley (1978)

  7This is Yvonne Friedman’s point in Encounter Between Enemies, Captivity and Ransom in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Leiden, 2002), pp.180-1

  8Hillenbrand, op. cit.

  9This is the view of, for instance, the leading modern historian of the Latin Kingdom, Joshua Prawer, in The Crusaders’ Kingdom (New York, 1972), p.71

  10William of Tyre, trans. Babcock and Krey, op. cit., Book XX, Chapter XXVIII

  11‘Un peu de lettres’, quoted in Gustave Schlumberger, Renaud de Châtillon (Paris, 1898), p.158

  12Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.221

  13Ibid.

  11 Phoenix

  1Peter of Blois, trans. Newton, op. cit.

  2William of Tyre, trans. Babcock and Krey, op. cit., Book XX, Chapter XI

  3Ibid.

  4William of Tyre, trans. Babcock and Krey, op. cit., Book XXI, Chapter I

  5Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.234

  6Reynald’s part in this embassy was cleverly detected by Professor Bernard Hamilton in The Leper King and His Heirs, p.111

  7Choniates, op. cit.

  8Ernoul, op. cit., Chapter IV

  9List of knights’ service by John of Ibelin, from Livre de Jean d’Ibelin, in Receuil des Historiens des Croisades, Historiens Occidentaux, Vol. 1., pp.422-6

  10Hamilton, Leper King, p.118

  11William of Tyre, History, quoted in Joel Gourdon, Le Cygne et l’Elephant (Paris, 2001), p.121

  12William of Tyre, History, quoted in Hamilton, Leper King, p.118

  13William of Tyre, History, quoted in Hamilton, Leper King, p.128

  14William of Tyre, trans. Babcock and Krey, op. cit., Book XXI, Chapter XX

  15Abu Shama, op. cit., and Michael the Syrian, op. cit.

  12 Hero

  1Bertran de Born, trans. Smythe, op. cit., p.90

  2William of Tyre, trans. Babcock and Krey, op. cit., Book XXI, Chapter XXIV

  3Ernoul, op. cit., Chapter VII

  4Baha al-Din, The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, trans. D. S. Richards (2002), p.54

  5Michael the Syrian, op. cit.

  13 Lord of La Grande Berrie

  1Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354 (London, 1929), p.72

  2Prawer, op. cit., p.395

  3Imad al-Din in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.259

  4Baha al-Din, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.48

  5Ibid.

  6Hamilton, Leper King, p.141

  7Quoted in Hamilton, Leper King, p.140

  8William of Tyre, History, quoted in Hamilton, Leper King, p.151

  9William of Tyre, History, quoted in Hamilton, Leper King, p.152

  10William of Tyre, trans. Babcock and Krey, op. cit., Book XXI, Chapter IV

  11Ernoul, op. cit., Chapter VIII

  12Abu Shama, op. cit.

  13William of Tyre, trans. Babcock and Krey, op. cit., Book XXII, Chapter VI

  14 Desert Raider

  1Ibn Battuta, op. cit., p.72

  2Hamilton, Leper King, p.171

  3Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.276

  4Baha al-Din, quoted in Abu Shama, op. cit.

  5Ibn Jubayr, trans. Broadhurst, op. cit.

  6Ibid.

  15 Sea Wolf

  1Ernoul, op. cit., Chapter VII

  2Hamilton, ‘Elephant of Christ’

  3Ibn Jubayr, trans. Broadhurst, op. cit.

  4Letter from the Qadi Al-Fadil to the caliph in Baghdad, quoted in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.233

  5Letter from the Qadi al-Fadil to Baghdad, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.234

  6Quran, sura 39, verse 71

  7Letter of Saladin, quoted in M. C. Lyons and D. E. P. Jackson, Saladin, The Politics of Holy War (Cambridge, 1982), p.187

  8Imad al-Din, quoted in Schlumberger, op. cit., pp.280-1

  9Letter from the sultan, quoted in Lyons and Jackson, op. cit., p.187

  10Ibn Jubayr, trans. Broadhurst, op. cit.

  16 The Lion and the Wolf

  1Letter of Qadi Al-Fadil, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.253

  2Letter to the Emir Toghtekin, quoted in Lyons and Jackson, op. cit., p.202

  3William of Tyre, History, quoted in Lyons and Jackson, op. cit., p.207

  4Gregory the Priest, op. cit.

  5Abu Shama, op. cit., pp.252-4

  6Letter of Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.255

  7Ibid.

  8Ernoul, op. cit., Chapter IX

  9William of Tyre, History, quoted in Hamilton, Leper King, p.199

  17 The ‘Manchurian’ Regent

  1Ibn Jubayr, trans. Broadhurst, op. cit., p.324

  2G. Axelrod (screenplay), The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

  3Ibn Jubayr, trans. Broadhurst, op. cit., p.324

  4Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.315

  5Oldenbourg, op. cit., p.404

  6Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.258

  7Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, quoted in Lyons and Jackson, op. cit., p.241

  18 King-maker

  1Main sources for Sybilla’s coronation as described on previous pages and here: Ernoul, op. cit., Chapter XI, and Estoire d’Eracles, Chapter XVII. Reynald’s speech in the Holy Sepulchre is in Estoire d’Eracles, Chapter XVII.

  2Anonymous, Itinerarium Perigrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, Chronicle of the Third Crusade, trans. Helen J. Nicholson (2001), p.122

  3Old French Continuation of William of Tyre, trans. Peter Edbury, The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade (Farnham, 1996), p.46

  4Latin Continuation of William of Tyre, quoted in Hamilton, Leper King, p.223

  5Ernoul, op. cit., Chapter XI

  6Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.258

  7The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre

  8Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.316

  9Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.257

  10References for Reynald’s statements: Ernoul, op. cit, and Baha al-Din in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.280

  19 Truce-breaker

  1Runciman, op. cit., Vol. II, pp.450, 459

  2Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.316

  3Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.259

  4Ibid.

  5Lyons and Jackson, op. cit., p.248

  6Itinerarium Perigrinorum, trans. Nicholson, op. cit., p.23

  7Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.316

  8Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.319

  9Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.263

  10Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., pp.261-3

  11Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.263

  12Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit.

  13Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit.

  14Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit.

  15References for these statements: Old French Continuation of William of Tyre, Chapter XXXII; Ibn al-Athir, Al-Kamil fi’l Tarikh

  20 Apocalypse

  1Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.324

  2Baha al-Din, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.73

  3Old French Continuation, Chapter XXXIII

  4Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.267

  5This stop was identified in the best account of the battle – the scholarly and objective account by B. Z. Kedar, ‘The Battle of Hattin Revisited’, in The Horns of Hattin, Proceedings for the Second Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (1987)

 
; 6Estoire d’Eracles, Chapter XL

  7Estoire d’Eracles, Chapter XLI

  8Baha al-Din, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.73

  9Old French Continuation, trans. Edbury, op. cit., p.46

  10Estoire d’Eracles, Chapter XLI

  11Baha al-Din, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.74

  12Itinerarium Perigrinorum, trans. Nicholson, op. cit., p.32

  13Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.270

  14Anna Comnena, Alexiad

  15Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.323

  16Ibid.

  17Ibid.

  18Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.322

  19Old French Continuation, trans. Edbury, op. cit., p.47

  20Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.274

  21Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.323

  22Ibid.

  21 The Ultimate Crusader

  1Diwan rasai’il al-Katib al-Isfahani, MS. Nuri Osmaniye (Istanbul), No. 3745, quoted in Lyons and Jackson, op. cit., p.264

  2Including: Old French Continuation, trans. Edbury, op. cit., p.48; Baha al-Din, trans. Richards, op. cit., pp.38, 75; Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., pp.323-4

  3Gregory the Priest, op. cit., Chapter X

  4Peter of Blois, trans. Newton, op. cit.

  5Michael the Syrian, op. cit.

  6 Itinerarium Perigrinorum, trans. Nicholson, op. cit., p.34

  7Diwan rasai’il al-Katib al-Isfahani, MS. Nuri Osmaniye (Istanbul), No. 3745, quoted in Lyons and Jackson, op. cit., p.264

  8Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit., p.290

  9Ibn al-Athir, trans. Richards, op. cit., p.324

  10Itinerarium Perigrinorum, trans. Nicholson, op. cit., p.34

  11Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit. p.271

  12Ibid.

  13Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit. p.272

  14Imad al-Din, in Abu Shama, op. cit. p.273

  15Ibid.

  16Ibid.

  17Abdul Rahman Azzam, Saladin (London, 2009), p.113

  18Itinerarium Perigrinorum, trans. Nicholson, op. cit., p.44

  19Quoted in Gourdon, op. cit., p.231

  20Itinerarium Perigrinorum, trans. Nicholson, op. cit., p.34

  21Christopher Tyerman, God’s War, A New History of the Crusades (London, 2006)

  22Peter of Blois, trans. Newton, op. cit.

  23Peter of Blois, trans. Newton, op. cit.

  24Gourdon, op. cit., p.232

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  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  The seeds of God’s Wolf were sown by the inspirational history department at Sherborne School. With Jerry Barker we re-enacted AD 43 at Maiden Castle and glimpsed the Dark Age warrior Arthur on Bokerley Dyke and South Cadbury (‘which is Camelot’). Huw Ridgeway and Giles ‘Doc’ Mercer then kindled an enduring fascination for the twelfth century and the crusades.

  At Oxford I would like to thank Alan Jones for teaching me Arabic, and D. S. Richards for his patient tutorials on the Seljuk period and latterly for his masterly translations of Baha al-Din and Ibn al-Athir. I was especially fortunate to be taught history – and how to do history – by the late, much missed Patricia Crone, the world’s most acute and brilliant historical mind, who read this book early on and provided great encouragement.

  I am grateful to Professor Carole Hillenbrand who generously read a draft and made helpful suggestions, as did Julian Ellison, Robert Twigger, and the ever supportive Hoss and Hass Amini. Bill Newton provided an invaluable, vibrant translation of the Passio Reginaldi by Peter of Blois – the first time it has appeared in print in English. Thanks as well to Stephanie Cabot, to my determined and perceptive agent, Julian Alexander, and to James Nightingale and the creative, professional team at Atlantic – it has been fun! Of course any errors in fact or interpretation are my own.

  Finally, a profound thank you to the constantly amazing Tannaz Lee, who among many other wonderful traits, tolerates her husband’s ‘obsession with old walls’.

 

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