ABSTRACT
In spite of t-his ferocious character, Humphrey had a lovable nature, and the various truces that were made between the contending parties were largely his work.
The fourth Humphrey of T oron was a young man in I 184 ; he was the son of the second wife of Renaud de Chatillon, and was engaged to be married to Isabeau, the daughter of King Amalric, or Amoury, and halfsister to Baldwin IV. The wedding was planned to take place with great ceremony and rejoicing at Kerak, where the bridegroom was living with his mother and stepfather. The preparations were all made, the wedding day dawned, and then a bombshell arrived in the notice of the near approach of the Saracens under Saladin. Whether the news was blazed out the night before by means of those fires that were lit as warnings on the top of the towers, or whether some breathless messenger, thankful to be within the gates of die strong city, brought the bad news, we do not know. All that appears is that the wedding took place on the very day that Saladin invested the fortress.
