the castle is too well defended, instead he decides to march on the Castle of Margat, which he also failed to capture. July – Saladin marches through the Buqaia, and occupies Jabala and Lattakieh. From Lattakieh he turns inland and, after a few days of fierce fighting, takes Sahyun Castle (called Castle of Saladin) on July 29. September 4 – King Guy of Lusignan is released by Saladin after Ascalon is forced to surrender. Guy and his wife, Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem, seek refuge in Tyre, which is defended by Conrad of Montferrat. England Spring – Henry II institutes legal reforms that give the Crown more control over the administration of justice. He orders Newgate Prison be built in London. Archdeacon Giraldus Cambrensis and Archbishop Baldwin of Forde travel through Wales, attempting to recruit men for the Third Crusade. Births March 4 – Blanche of Castile, queen and regent of France (d. 1252) March 24 – Ferdinand (or Ferrand), count of Flanders (d. 1233) November 26 – Yuri II of Vladimir, Kievan Grand Prince (d. 1238) Albert IV (the Wise), German nobleman and knight (d. 1239) Matilda I, countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre (d. 1257) Si Inthrathit, Thai founder of the Sukhothai Kingdom (d. 1270) Deaths January 22 – Ferdinand II, king of León and Galicia (b. 1137) January 26 – Eysteinn Erlendsson, Norwegian archbishop 1188 – Death of Seljuki Khatun October 11 – Robert I (the Great), count of Dreux (b. 1123) November 4 – Theobald of Ostia, French abbot and bishop November 17 – Usama ibn Munqidh, Arabian poet and knight (b. 1095) December 14 – Berthold I, margrave of Istria and Carniola December 22 – Richard of Ilchester, bishop of Winchester Aoife MacMurrough (or Eva), princess of Leinster (b. 1145) Hugh the Chaplain, bishop of Cell Rigmonaid (St. Andrews) Roger de Mowbray, English nobleman and knight (b. 1120) References