Boris the Hungarian pretender had written to Louis VII at Etampes explaining his claim on the throne of Hungary, but had failed to gain support from Conrad III. Boris now, with the help of two nobles in the French army, attached himself to the French as they began their march through Hungary. Meanwhile Geza II welcomed Louis to Hungary, but stayed beyond the Danube, begging Louis to cross to meet him. Louis graciously did so with an escort, and the two embraced, exchanged gifts and established conditions for the passage of the crusade. But soon after Geza discovered that Boris was with the French army. He at once sent men to rewrite the treaty to make Louis give Boris up, and they looked for him in the French camp, making him run away. He fled half-naked, and tried to steal a horse; when he was brought as a thief before Louis, the king with difficulty (through problems of language) established who he was. Louis held a council, facing a difficult decision: on one side, Boris's individual rights, on the other, those of their new ally Geza. After some discussion, they kept the status quo, pleasing Boris but not Geza