near Ras el Ma on April 24, which led to the conquest of Banyas on 10 May 1157, which Humphrey and the Hospitallers could not prevent. They were only able to defend the castle, which Baldwin III was able to supply in order to maintain its and leave a garrison there. On 19 June, the king was surprised on his way back through Jacob's Ford and routed. He managed to return to Safed and then to Acre. Humphrey later sold Banyas and the castle Chastel Neuf to the Hospitallers. After the siege, a conflict broke out between Raymond and Fulk of Angoulême. The latter complained that the Hospitallers did not respect his ecclesiastical rights. He accused them of admitting excommunicated persons, administering the last rites and burying them in their cemeteries, ringing bells in "forbidden countries or times", receiving alms, providing for the Order's cures without diocesan approval and refusing to pay tithes on their goods and revenues. The patriarch pleaded for himself, but also for the whole patriarchate, whose prerogatives had been infringed. In addition to all this, there were personal considerations. The Order's hospital, installed opposite the Holy Sepulchre, competed with it by the beauty and height of its buildings, but also, when the patriarch preached, his voice was covered by the Hospitallers' bells. The Hospitallers had seen fit to respond by invading the Holy Sepulchre with an armed force. Fulk resolved to go before Adrian IV and ask for the withdrawal of the bull of pope Anastasius IV of 21 October 1154, which confirmed the prerogatives of the Order. Fulk, accompanied by the archbishops of Tyre and Caesarea, the bishops of Acre, Sidon, Lydda, Sebaste and Tiberias, left for Rome in the spring of 1155. After many travails, a new disappointment awaited them, as the pope had left Rome for Ferentino. When they finally saw the pope, he welcomed them coldly, although they did accompany him at the religious festivals. Their case was pleaded before the pope, finishing in endless debates. Fulk, understanding the uselessness of his attempt, returned to Jerusalem in autumn 1155. Administration of Crusader castles Under his magisterium, the Order received numerous donations, notably from the county of Tripoli, to defend the Holy Land against the Muslims. It was under his mastery that the Hospitallers received its first concessions of castles: Bethgibelin in 1136, Qalaat el-Marqab, Chastel Neuf and, later, the Krak des Chevaliers