Bayan nasarar kewaye Antakiya a watan Yunin 1098, 'yan Salibiyya sun kasance a yankin har zuwa ƙarshen shekara. Wakilin papal Adhemar na Le Puy ya mutu, kuma Bohemond na Taranto ya yi ikirarin Antakiya don kansa. Baldwin na Boulogne ya kasance a Edessa, wanda aka kama a farkon 1098. Akwai rashin jituwa tsakanin sarakuna game da abin da za a yi gaba; Raymond na Toulouse, ya yi takaici, ya bar Antakiya don kama sansanin soja a Ma'arrat al-Numan a cikin Siege na Maarat. A ƙarshen shekara, ƙananan dakarun soja da sojoji suna barazanar tafiya zuwa Urushalima ba tare da su ba. Daga bisani, a ranar 13 ga Janairu, 1099 Raymond ya fara tafiya zuwa kudu, gabar tekun Bahar Rum, wanda Robert na Normandy da dan uwan Bohemond Tancred suka biyo baya, wanda ya yarda ya zama vassal na Antakiya.
Raymond na Toulouse