Ch. X ANTIOCH TO ASCALON 325 
 
promptly had a vision in which he was given a sentence in hell for his unbelief.
At the same time St. Andrew told Peter that Antioch should be given to Bohemond,
that the crusade should march off at once to Jerusalem, and that a Latin
patriarch should be installed in Antioch. These revelations irritated Adhémar's
many admirers and threw discredit on Peter Bartholomew, though Bohemond's
friends approved of the political suggestions; and they embarrassed Raymond,
who was proud of his possession of the lance. 
 As the epidemic spread, the princes took refuge in the countryside. Bohemond
went to Cilicia, to reinforce the garrisons left there by Tancred. Godfrey
established himself in Tell Bashir (Turbessel) and Ravendan, handed over
to him by his brother Baldwin. The movements of Raymond and Robert of Flanders
are unknown. Robert of Normandy went to Latakia, which had been temporarily
occupied by Guynemer of Boulogne, then by Edgar Atheling in the emperor's
name. Edgar had insufficient men to garrison it, and so appealed to the crusade.
Robert governed there for a few weeks, but his rule was so exorbitant and
unpopular that the citizens forced him to leave, and accepted instead a Byzantine
garrison from Cyprus.14 
 In September, when the epidemic abated, the princes returned to Antioch,
and on September i i they met to draft a letter to the pope, rep orting the
death of his legate. They probably knew by now that Alexius was not coming
to Antioch; so they suggested that Urban himself should take over this see
of St. Peter. They would await his coming. It was a compromise, evolved to
postpone a decision and excuse further delay; but it was ominous in its implied
rejection of the claims of the Greek patriarch and in its note of hostility
towards all the eastern Christians. 
 While they waited for an answer, the princes raided the countryside in order
to secure food for the winter. They began to interfere in Moslem politics,
supporting the emir of cAzãz against his overlord, Rtdvan of Aleppo.
Godfrey even accepted the emir as a vassal, though the vassalage did not
last for long. In October Raymond occupied Chastel-Rouge on the Orontes,
and Albara, some miles across the river. Albara was a Moslem town, but Raymond
turned its mosque into a cathedral and set up a Latin bishopric, the first
in the east, under one of his priests, Peter of Narbonne. Peter went to Antioch
to be consecrated by the Greek 
 
14 For the complicated question of the history of Latakia during the First
crusade, see 
F. Chalandon, Essai sur le r~gne d'Alexis Comne'ne (Paris, I 900), pp. 205—212;
David, Robert Curthose, pp. z3off.; Runciman, Crusades, I, 255, and note
2.