It became clear that Bohemond wanted to take Antioch for himself. Although in Constantinople it had been agreed with Alexius that the former cities within the Byzantine Empire would be returned to Byzantine control, Bohemond proposed that, since Alexius had done nothing to help the crusade since the fall of Nicaea, whoever of the crusaders was able to breach the city walls and bring the exhausting siege to an end should be given the city as his own to rule.
