Editing Turcopole (section)

== Battle of Hattin ==
At the decisive [[Battle of Hattin]] in 1187 the ''Historia Regni Hierosolymitani'' records 4,000 turcopoles as being part of the defeated Christian army. However the historian [[Steven Runciman]] considers this number exaggerated, and notes that the Muslim light cavalry present were probably better armed than the Turcopoles.<ref>{{cite book |first=Steven |last=Runciman |title=A History of the Crusades - The Kingdom of Jerusalem |date=January 1952 |pages=489–490 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-06162-8 }}</ref> The Turcopoles captured at Hattin were, as perceived renegades, <ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Nicolle |page=78 |title=Hattin 1187. Saladin's Greatest Victory |date=28 January 1993 |publisher=Bloomsbury USA |isbn=978-1-85532-284-4}}</ref> probably executed at [[Saladin]]'s order. <ref>{{cite book |first=Jean |last=Richard |page=207 |title=The Crusades c1071-c1291 |date=16 September 1999 |isbn=0-521-625661}}</ref>