The showdown between the Europeans and Saladin's army at Kerak is fictional; Saladin only crossed the Jordan once with an army, about two years later to destroy the crusader army at Hattin. By that time, the leper king Baldwin IV had been dead for two years; in the interim, his sickly young nephew had become King Baldwin V and then also died a year later. After the death of both her brother and her son, Sibylla had herself crowned as queen in 1186, the year before the battle. Her husband King Guy led the crusader army to Hattin, where it was annihilated.
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