Certainty: 3 Alexios went to Thessalonike, then to the capital triumphantly; Bohemond left garrisons & withdrew to Avlon Certainty: 3
Certainty: 3 Alexios I gathered an army & attacked Bryennios at Kastoria, building a base from which to use siege engines
He decided to attack Bryennios in Kastoria, and gathered his army with a full range of siege weapons; he made a kind of wooden fort, so as to have a secure basis from which to launch his missiles. Using his siege-engines day and night, he shook and breached the circuit of the walls; but the morale of the defenders was high, and the shattering of the walls did not lead to surrender
Certainty: 3 Kastoria was attacked on land & by Palaiologos in boats; Bryennios' counts rebelled & went home with safe-conduct Certainty: 3
Certainty: 3 Alexios I returned victorious from Kastoria; Pakourianos & the patriach of Jerusalem made the peace
Alexios returned to the capital after operations around Kastoria as a glorious victor. He brought with him the counts who had deserted to the Byzantine side, and Bryennios, who was on his way home with a safe-conduct. Around the same time, Pakourianos and Euthymios I, patriarch of Jerusalem, were sent by the emperor to Thessalonike to discuss peace with the Franks. After that the two went together to Pakourianos' estates near Philippopolis