Gerard of Ridefort and several hundred Templars and Hospitallers were among those taken alive from the battlefield, in an astonishing parade of illustrious prisoners that included King Guy, Reynald of Châtillon, Humphrey of Toron (his stepson) and many others. A newsletter sent to Archumbald, master of the Hospitallers in Italy, lamented that more than one thousand “of the better men were captured and killed, with the result that no more than two hundred of the knights or foot soldiers got away.”
