Editing Baldwin I of Jerusalem (section)

===First successes===

When Geldemar Carpenel laid claim to [[Haifa]], stating that Tancred had arbitrarily seized it,{{sfn|Barber|2012|pp=54, 65}} Baldwin summoned Tancred to Jerusalem, but Tancred did not recognise him as the lawful monarch.{{sfn|Barber|2012|p=65}}{{sfn|Edgington|2019|p=83}} They agreed to meet at a river near Jaffa, but their meeting did not result in compromise.{{sfn|Barber|2012|p=65}} The conflict was resolved when Tancred was invited to Antioch to administer the principality on Bohemond's behalf.{{sfn|Barber|2012|p=65}}{{sfn|Edgington|2019|p=83}} Before leaving for Antioch in March, Tancred renounced his domains in Palestine, but also stipulated that the same domains should be granted in fief to him if he were to leave Antioch within fifteen months.{{sfn|Barber|2012|p=65}}{{sfn|Edgington|2019|p=65}} Baldwin gave Haifa to Geldemar and the [[Principality of Galilee|Galilee]] to [[Hugh of Fauquembergues]].{{sfn|Barber|2012|p=65}}{{sfn|Edgington|2019|p=66}}

A new papal legate, [[Maurice of Porto]], came to Jerusalem in early March 1101.{{sfn|Barber|2012|p=73}} After Baldwin accused Daimbert of treachery and convinced Maurice to suspend him on 15{{nbs}}April, Daimbert had to bribe Baldwin with 300 [[bezant]]s to persuade the legate to restore him to his office.{{sfn|MacEvitt|2010|p=117}}{{sfn|Barber|2012|p=73}} The towns along the coast which were still under Egyptian rule—[[Arsuf]], [[Caesarea Maritima|Caesarea]], [[Acre (city)|Acre]] and [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]]—sent gifts to Baldwin to secure his benevolence.{{sfn|Runciman|1989b|p=72}}{{sfn|Edgington|2019|p=115}}

Always in need of funds, Baldwin concluded an alliance with the commanders of a [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]] fleet, offering commercial privileges and booty to them in the towns that he would capture with their support.{{sfn|Edgington|2019|p=115}}{{sfn|Runciman|1989b|p=73}} They first attacked Arsuf, which surrendered without resistance on 29 April, securing a safe passage for the townspeople to Ascalon.{{sfn|Runciman|1989b|p=73}}{{sfn|Barber|2012|p=67}} The Egyptian garrison at Caesarea resisted, but the town fell on 17{{nbs}}May.{{sfn|Runciman|1989b|p=73}} Baldwin's soldiers pillaged Caesarea and massacred the majority of the adult local population.{{sfn|Runciman|1989b|p=73}}{{sfn|Barber|2012|p=69}} The Genoese received one third of the booty, but Baldwin did not grant areas in the captured towns to them.{{sfn|Edgington|2019|pp=118–119}}