Chapter 74: The Execution
A fair trial?
The knights exchanged glances. For committing such a grave crime, what could the "fairest" trial possibly be? Hanging that left the corpse intact? Or being stripped of their noble rank and demoted to slaves?
Several of Count Philip's core confidants, envisioning their likely fate, turned deathly pale, their bodies trembling, large beads of sweat trickling down their temples. They didn't know whether the Crown Prince had actually come to harm or not.
For them, it didn't matter.
Because regardless of whether little Baldwin was dead or alive, they had committed dereliction of duty and possibly participated in the murder of the Crown Prince; this was already enough to send them to the gallows.
Count Philip, on the other hand, being a vassal of the German Emperor, could at most be stripped of his official rank and expelled from Jerusalem, as long as little Baldwin was alive.
