After Guy’s coronation, most of the Frankish barons accepted him as king, though Raymond of Tripoli, indignant at his usurpation, intrigued with Saladin. Next year the pillage of a Mussulman convoy by the lord of Kerak gave Saladin a pretext for proclaiming a holy war against the Christians, and invading the kingdom of Jerusalem. [Sidenote: The Battle of Hattin and the fall of Jerusalem, 1187.] On 4th July 1187 a great battle was fought at Hattin, in which Saladin won a complete victory, King Guy was taken prisoner, and the True Cross fell into the infidels’ hands. On 2nd October Jerusalem fell, and Tyre, Tripoli, and Antioch alone succeeded in driving Saladin from their walls. Thus the great kingdom of the Franks of Syria was reduced to a few towns near the sea-coast, and a few sorely beleaguered castles. ‘The Latins of the East,’ said William of Tyre, ‘had forsaken God, and God now forsook them.’ Unless Europe made another such effort as Urban II. had made, the crusading state would soon disappear altogether. [Illustration: DOMINIONS of SALADIN at his death in 1193] GENEALOGY OF THE EARLY KINGS OF JERUSALEM. A Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lower Lorraine, _d._ 1069, _m._ 1. Doda; 2. Beatrice, mother of Countess Matilda | +-------------+-----------+ | | Godfrey the Hunchback, Ida, Duke of Lower Lorraine, _m._ Eustace II., _d._ 1076 Count of Boulogne | +-----------------------+-----+-----------+ | | | GODFREY OF BOULOGNE, Eustace III. BALDWIN I., Duke of Lower Lorraine, and of Boulogne Count of Edessa and Baron of the Holy Sepulchre, King of Jerusalem _d._ 1100 (1100–1118) B