Certainty: 2 Tatikios withdrew, hearing that Borsuq was near with a big army; he beat off Abul-Kasim at Prainetos Certainty: 2
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
Baldwin of Edessa, hearing that Kerbogha of Mosul had been sent by a Persian prince with a vast polyglot army to save Antioch and destroy the crusaders, prepared Edessa with food, weapons and men for a siege. Baldwin held out successfully for three weeks, when Kerbogha was persuaded to abandon the siege and go on to Antioch. By giving the crusaders time to capture Antioch Baldwin saved them, without going there in person