Lombard crusaders left Nikomedeia towards Neokaisareia

Summary:
Just before Whitsun, Alexios I was asked by the crusaders for a leader, and he gave them Raymond of Toulouse, with Tzitas and 500 Turcopole troops, to give them good advice and restrain them from their wilder ideas: they first disagreed over the route. Raymond and Stephen of Blois wanted to follow the route of the First Crusade, but the Lombards used their numerical superiority to impose a rescue mission for their hero Bohemond, directly to his prison in Neokaisareia, or by going direct to Khorasan and attacking Baghdad (?) 
Dates:
1101 early June 
Albert, count of Biandrate (Albert 26102)
  • Two Norman brothers called Phlantras [in fact Lombard brothers from Biandrate] arriving in Constantinople with their troops (in the crusade of 1101); they were advised to follow the coast path to Jerusalem, but it became obvious that they wanted to go to Chorasan instead (:) Anna Komnene 346.54-61
Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (Alexios 1)
  • Just before Whitsun, he was asked by the crusaders for a leader, and he gave them Raymond 61, with 500 Turcopole troops: the first disagreement was over the route (:) Albert of Aachen VIII.7
  • He gave frequent advice to the leaders of the Norman [in fact Lombard] army, Albert 26102 and Guy 26101, to follow the coast route to Jerusalem; but they wished to go by another route via Anatolikon to capture Chorasan, a plan which Alexios realised to be disastrous (:) Anna Komnene 346.55-62
  • In order to avoid the loss of the magnificent armies of Lombards, he gave them Raymond 61 and Tzitas 101, to give them good advice and restrain them from their wilder ideas (:) Anna Komnene 346.62-67
Bohemond of Taranto (Bohemond 61)
  • His presence as a prisoner in Neokaisareia attracted the Lombard crusade away from the conventional route across Anatolia to disaster in the mountains of Paphlagonia; the Lombards were his firm supporters (:) Albert of Aachen VIII.7
Guy, brother of Albert of Biandrate (Guy 26101)
  • Two Norman brothers called Phlantras [in fact Lombard brothers from Biandrate] arriving in Constantinople with their troops (in the crusade of 1101); they were advised to follow the coast path to Jerusalem, but it became obvious that they wanted to go to Chorasan instead (:) Anna Komnene 346.54-61
Raymond of Saint-Gilles, count of Toulouse (Raymond 61)
  • He and Stephanos 4001 wanted the same route as that of the First Crusade, but the Lombards used their numerical superiority to impose a rescue mission for their hero Bohemond 61, directly to his prison or by attacking Baghdad (?) in Khorasan (:) Albert of Aachen VIII.7
  • In order to avoid the loss of the magnificent armies of Lombards, Alexios 1 gave them Raymond and Tzitas 101, to offer them good advice and restrain them from their wilder ideas (:) Anna Komnene 346.62-67
Stephen, count of Chartres and Blois (Stephanos 4001)
  • He and Raymond 61 wanted the same route as that of the First Crusade, but the Lombards used their numerical superiority to impose a rescue mission for their hero Bohemond 61, directly to his prison or by attacking Baghdad (?) in Khorasan (:) Albert of Aachen VIII.7
Tzitas, commander of Alexios I (Tzitas 101)
  • In order to avoid the loss of the magnificent armies of Lombards, Alexios 1 gave them Tzitas and Raymond 61, to offer them good advice and restrain them from their wilder ideas (:) Anna Komnene 346.62-67