Certainty: 2 Tatikios withdrew, hearing that Borsuq was near with a big army; he beat off Abul-Kasim at Prainetos
Barkiyaruq, having just become the Seljuq sultan, sent Borsuq to Nicaea against Abul-Kasim with 50,000 men. Borsuq made his way gradually to Nicaea, reducing other rebel Turks and their fortresses. But reports of his approach and the size of his forces, first by a peasant and then others, made Tatikios set off home, via Nikomedeia. When from the wall of Nicaea Abul-Kasim saw Tatikios departing, he decided to bring out his men and follow him, in the hope of catching him in a weak position and attacking him. When Tatikios reached Prainetos, Abul-Kasim saw a chance for a determined attack. Tatikios reacted quickly, sent his Keltish cavalry on a swift charge with long lances, routed the enemy and went on to reach the capital
Certainty: 2 The sultan sent Bozan to attack Abul-Kasim, with a letter proposing a marriage alliance with Alexios against him Certainty: 2
Certainty: 2 Tutush defeated & killed Bozan, but was then himself defeated & killed by Barkiyaruk Certainty: 2
1096
Certainty: 2 Abul-Kasim had tried to give the sultan a bribe, but it was not accepted; finally he was strangled Certainty: 2
1098
Certainty: 3 Yaghi Siyan of Antioch sent his son with Kilic Arslan to Khorasan to seek help Certainty: 3
Certainty: 3 Kerbogha of Mosul, en route to save Antioch, spent three weeks in a vain attempt to capture Edessa Certainty: 3