William of Tyre recorded what happened next. “Under the escort and the guide . . . provided by the king, Abdallah had already passed through Tripoli and was about to enter his own land,” he wrote. But as Abdallah approached the mountains, he was ambushed. Walter of Mesnil, a Templar knight recognizable by the fact that he had only one eye, along with other unnamed accomplices in Templar uniform, “rushed the party with drawn swords and killed the envoy.”
