‘Your promise doesn’t worry me. Anyone crossing my land
must pay!’ said Reynald.
Saladin thought that Reynald was a man without honour,
and he decided to stop him. He marched to Kerak with his men.
But when Saladin was just going to attack the castle with siege
engines, he heard that Isabella of Jerusalem was marrying the
grandson of his old friend, Humphrey of Toron, there. ‘Find out
where the party will be,’ he said to his soldiers, ‘I don’t want to
hit that side of the building!’ To thank Saladin for this, Isabella
sent food to the men in his army