Queen Melisande came to Tripoli not only to see her niece Constance, but also to heal a split which had occurred between her sister Hodierna and her husband Raymond II, which derived from matrimonial jealousy. Since Melisende had made little progress in this, she decided to take Hodierna home, and the two ladies had left Tripoli. Raymond II, meanwhile, accompanied Constance on the first stage of her journey back to Antioch, took his leave of her and returned to Tripoli. As he was entering the gate of the city, suspecting nothing, he was attacked by the swords of Assassins and died wretchedly. With him died Radulf of Merle and one of his knights, who happened by chance to have joined him in this excursion. Baldwin III was relaxing, playing dice, ignorant of the assassinations which had occurred, when the populace indiscriminately massacred all possible murderers, anyone whose dress or speech seemed different from the local norm. When he realised from the shouts what had happened, he ordered that Melisende and Hodierna be recalled. After much lamentation a fitting funeral was held to bury the dead. He then required all the magnates of the county of Tripoli to swear allegiance to Hodierna as countess and to her two children, the twelve-year-old Raymond and his younger sister Melisende. After that, the king returned to Jerusalem with his mother and barons