After being splendidly entertained by Manuel I, Conrad III was sent to Palestine with Byzantine money and a fleet commanded by Nikephoros Dasiotes. He and his nobles landed at Acre and then went up to Jerusalem, where Baldwin III, Fulcher the patriarch, the clergy and all the people met him outside the city and ceremonially conducted him inside. Baldwin and his barons felt a sense of competition with the other Latin states in attracting the crusader leaders, with the idea of expanding their territories. The Jerusalem leaders had the advantage of the Holy Places, but feared the rival attraction of kinship at Antioch, and even at Tripoli. They therefore sent Fulcher the patriarch to use his eloquence on Louis VII and invite him to Jerusalem. Louis, who had parted on bad terms with Raymond of Antioch, was predisposed to accept Fulcher's invitation, and he arrived, to receive a fulsome welcome. Another western prince, however, did not join them. Alphonse, count of Toulouse, son of Raymond of St Gilles, arrived at Acre, but fell sick and died at Caesarea