Editing Godfrey of Bouillon (section)

===Capture of Nicaea and Antioch===
[[File:Siege de Nicée (1097).jpg|thumb|Siege of Nicaea in 1097. Miniature from {{lang|fr|[[:Commons:Category:Roman de Godefroy de Bouillon - BNF Fr22495|Roman de Godefroy de Bouillon et de Saladin]]}}]]
In February 1097, Godfrey and his army crossed the [[Bosporus Straits]], where he was joined by Bohemund, Robert of Flanders and Hugh of Vermandois.{{sfn|Asbridge|2004|p=118}} Accompanied by Byzantine soldiers, in early May the Crusaders invested [[siege of Nicaea|Nicaea]], a city close to Constantinople captured by the Turks in 1085. Godfrey and his troops played a minor role, with Bohemond successfully commanding much of the action but as the Crusaders were about to storm the city, they noticed the Byzantine flag flying from the top of the walls. Wanting to minimise damage to what was an important Byzantine city and suspecting the Crusaders would demand a heavy ransom for handing it over, Alexios had made a separate peace with the Turkish garrison. Although the majority of the Crusader leaders accepted Alexios' right to do so, it was an illustration of the level of mutual suspicion between the two sides.{{sfn|Asbridge|2004|pp=128–130}}

[[File:Godfrey of Bouillon and leaders of the first crusade.gif|thumb|right|upright=1.0|1883 portrayal of Godfrey and other leaders of the First Crusade, by [[Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville]]]]

Godfrey continued to play a minor, yet significant, role in the battles against the Seljuks until the Crusaders finally reached Jerusalem in 1099. At [[Battle of Dorylaeum (1097)|Dorylaeum]] in July 1097, he helped relieve the vanguard at [[Battle of Dorylaeum (1097)|Dorylaeum]] which had been pinned down by a Turkish force under [[Kilij Arslan I]], then sacked their camp. After this battle and during the trek through Asia Minor, some sources suggest that Godfrey was attacked by a bear and received a serious wound which incapacitated him for a time.<ref>Natasha Hodgson 'Lions, Tigers and Bears: encounters with wild animals and bestial imagery in the context of crusading to the Latin East' ''Viator'' (2013)</ref>

Godfrey also took part in the [[Siege of Antioch]], which began in October 1097 and did not surrender until June 1098 after long and bitter fighting. During the winter, the crusading army came close to starvation and many returned to Europe, while Alexios assumed all was lost at Antioch and failed to provide them with supplies as promised. When the city finally fell, Bohemond claimed it for himself and refused to hand it over to the Emperor citing the Emperor's failure to help the crusaders at Antioch as breaking the oath; after repulsing a Muslim force from [[Mosul]] led by [[Kerbogha]], Antioch was secured.