Ali ibn al-Athir
At the time of King Guy's defeat and imprisonment at Hattin, Queen Sibylla was in Jerusalem, where she was joined by her stepmother, Queen Maria. Saladin treated them courteously, allowing Maria and her children to go to Tripoli and Sibylla to visit her captive husband in Nablus. Sibylla left the capital on the eve of its siege in September according to Ernoul, but Ali ibn al-Athir, the "Estoire d'Eracles", and the "Itinerarium Regis Ricardi" report that the queen remained in Jerusalem throughout the siege. In the months following the battle, all of the kingdom except the city of Tyre fell to Saladin. When Jerusalem itself fell on 2 October, Guy was transferred to Damascus, while Sibylla was permitted to join her stepmother in Tripoli.