But the knights didn’t listen and built the castle there, and in 1179 there was a fight about the land. During the battle, asmall group of Saladin’s soldiers nearly caught King Baldwin. Old Humphrey of Toron helped his king escape, but the knight was badly wounded and died. Saladin, now forty-one, was sad. ‘Humphrey was my good friend in Alexandria after that terrible siege finished. He was a chivalrous man and a brave knight. I wish that more Franks could be like him!’ After the battle of Jacob’s Ford, Saladin sent his army in small groups to attack Palestine. ‘It’ll be easy to catch Saladin’s men when they come back,’ Baldwin said. ‘They’ll be tired and we can fight small groups of soldiers and win!’ Near the Litani River, they met some of Saladin’s men on their way home. Baldwin’s knights quickly won the battle, but before they knew it, Saladin and the rest of his army arrived. Saladin’s soldiers killed hundreds of Franks, and caught many of their important knights. Three years later, Baldwin and Saladin agreed to stop fighting for a while, but the peace was short. One of Baldwin’s knights, Reynald of Chatillon, was a man who was hungry for gold and for power. When he married, his wife gave him Kerak Castle which looked down on the road that ran between Damascus and Makkah. This castle made it easy for him to attack Muslim pilgrims and to take their money from them. ‘Reynald, you are breaking the peace,’ King Baldwin told him angrily. ‘We have promised the Muslims that the pilgrims’ road will be safe.’ ‘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. Later, King Baldwin went to help Reynald. Together they ended the siege and pushed Saladin and his army back. After this, Reynald went on attacking Muslim pilgrims. ‘We must stop Reynald and the Franks,’ Saladin said to his generals, ‘But we must make them fight in open country. They’re too strong in their castles!’