Editing Latrun (section)

===Crusader period===
[[Image:Latrun-Castle-S-034.jpg|right|thumb|Remains of the Crusader castle at Latrun]]

Little remains of the castle, which was reputedly built in 1130s by a Castilian nobleman [[Rodrigo González de Lara]]<ref>Phillips (2007), 249, accepts the account of the [[Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris]] at face value. In the words of the ''Chronica'', I, §48, quoted in Barton (2000), n35: ''Comes uero Rodericus Gundisalui, postquam osculatus est manum regis et gentibus et amicis suis ualere dixit, peregre profectus est Hierosilimis, ubi et commisit multa bella cum Sarracenis fecitque quoddam castellum ualde fortissimum a facie Ascalonie, quod dicitur Toron, et muniuit eum ualde militibus et peditibus et escis tradens illud militibus Templi'' [https://libro.uca.edu/lipskey/chronicle.htm translation]</ref> who later gave it to the [[Knights Templars|Templars]]. The main tower was later surrounded with a rectangular enclosure with vaulted chambers. This in turn was enclosed by an outer court, of which one tower survives.<ref>Pringle, 1997, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC&pg=PA64 64]-65</ref><ref>Pringle, 1998, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2Y0tA0xLzwEC&pg=PA5 5]-9</ref><ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp03conduoft#page/135/mode/1up 135]</ref>