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Raynald of Chatillon Biography

There he ruled as Prince of Antioch from 1153 to 1160.

He was a younger son of Henry, lord of Châtillon, from a middle-ranking French noble family.

Raynald entered into the service of Constance of Antioch and was chosen to be her husband in 1153, four years after the death of her first husband, Raymund.

One of Raynald's first acts in Antioch was an assault on the Latin Patriarch; two years later he attacked Cyprus, ravaging the island. Cyprus was a possession of the Byzantine Empire, and in 1159 Raynald was forced to pay homage to Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus as punishment for his attack, promising to accept a Greek Patriarch in Antioch.

When Manuel came to Antioch later that year to meet with Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem, Raynald was forced to