Baldwin III was deeply worried that Antioch, without a prince since the death of Raymond of Poitiers, would soon follow Edessa under Turkish rule, knowing that he himself had little time to spend there. Thus he repeatedly urged the princess Constance to choose one of her noble suitors from his army to rule the principality. Ivo of Nesle, Walter of Falquenberg or Radulf of Merle were well qualified to save the principality. But she was afraid of the bonds of marriage and preferred her freedom and desires to the needs of her people. When he realised this, Baldwin called a general assembly of the magnates of the kingdom and the principality at Tripoli, inviting from Antioch the patriarch Aimery of Limoges and his suffragans and Constance with her barons; also present were queen Melisende and the barons from Jerusalem. After some general issues, the agenda turned to Constance's marriage plans, but nobody succeeded in persuading her to wed, not her kinsmen Baldwin III or Raymond II, nor her maternal aunts Melisende or Hodierna. It was said that Aimery had influence over her, and supported her aberration of refusal to marry, since it helped him in his ambition to have a freer hand in control of the principality. The assembly ended in failure on this issue