 Raynald was born around 1123 . He received Châtillon @-@ sur @-@ Loire , but a part of his patrimony was " violently and unjustly confiscated " , according to one of his letters . He came to the Kingdom of Jerusalem before 1153 when he was mentioned as a mercenary fighting in the army of Baldwin III of Jerusalem . According to modern historians , he had joined the crusade of Louis VII of France . Louis departed from France in June 1147 . The 12th @-@ century historian William of Tyre , who was Raynald 's opponent , claimed that Raynald was " almost a common soldier " . Louis VII left the Holy Land for France in the summer of 1149 , but Raynald stayed behind in Palestine . 
