Bardawil the Frank

Baldwin the Frank, lord of Jerusalem, Acre, Jaffa and several towns of Syria's coast — he who took those lands from the Muslims; he aimed at Egypt to seize it, struck at al-Farama, entered it, burned it and its mosque and mosques, and killed its people, slaying a lame man and slaughtering his daughter upon his breast. ¹

He left it sick and perished on the road before reaching al-'Arish; his companions slit his belly and cast out his entrails there — its stench lingers to this day — and bore his corpse to bury it with his bones; the Sarkha of Baldwin in mid-sands on the Syrian road is named for him, and of the stones cast there people say... ¹