After spending five weeks in Attaleia, Louis VII had to pass another three weeks in reaching Antioch, as some of his ships were battered without suffering shipwreck. He arrived safely, and Odo of Deuil was able to complete his history with an encomium of the king, addressed to abbot Suger. William of Tyre, however, speaks of a short sea voyage with favourable winds, before Louis put into St Simeon, port of Antioch