ABSTRACT
Reynauld of Chatillon, a French carpetbagger who came to the HolyLand with the Second Crusade in 1147, was not renowned for delicacy. He placed the heads of his victims, whether Muslim or Christian, in a wooden box before throwing them over the high walls of his castle at Kerak in the hope that they would be conscious when they smashed into the rocks below. When the Patriarch of Antioch refused to fund an attack on the Christian island of Cyprus, the high priest was stripped, smeared with honey, and left under the West Asian sun to feed the flies. The baked Patriarch paid up.
