William Marshall, greatest knight in English history. So when he was a kid his dad was defending a castle in a civil war, and young William was being held as a hostage. If the father would not surrender, it was threatened that William be killed - either by hanging or as the payload of a trebuchet - which is after all the point of hostages.

His father taunted them to do it, proclaiming “I still have the hammer and the anvil with which to forge still more and better sons!” History does not specifically record that he was grabbing his junk as he said this, but one can assume.