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Nur ad-Din died in 1174, upon which Amalric immediately besieged Banias.

On the way back after giving up the siege he fell ill from dysentery, which was ameliorated by doctors but turned into a fever in Jerusalem.

William of Tyre explains that " after suffering intolerably from the fever for several days, he ordered physicians of the Greek, Syrian, and other nations noted for skill in diseases to be called and insisted that they give him some purgative remedy.

" Neither they nor Latin doctors could help, and he died on July 11, 1174.