Description & Facts: Presenting Lares Park Hotel in Antalya, Turkey. During the Byzantine period Antalya was an important center of Christianity. After the collapse of Byzantine power under the 4th Crusade, the Templars were invested by the Latins with the city, which both the papal legate and Pope Innocent III. confirmed. The city was dominated by Aldobrandino. He was a Greek-Italian descent and is in the sources usually referred to as a privateer, as he failed to establish his own dynasty. As beleaguered Süleyman II, Sultan of Rum, the city, Aldobrandino turned for assistance to Cyprus. Walter of Montbéliard, son of Amé of Montfaucon, the fourth in 1199 with the Crusade came to the East and regent for the minor King Hugo I was, it came with a larger force to help and was able to lift the siege. He had the money for it, as it turned out later, without further inquiry found the treasure of his throne-ward. Walter, though, appears to have quickly made themselves unpopular with the Greek population of the city, as they rose against him and called the Seljuks to the rescue. Walter probably had tried to raise himself instead Aldobrandinos ruler, as he should try it later in Rhodes, while a newcomer from France, put little sensitivity to light. The Sultan of Rum Kai Khosrow I moved in 1207 in Antalya. After his accession in 1210 acted Hugo I then made a trade agreement with Kai Khosrow I, which ensured the safety Seljuk and Cypriot traders from the south coast of Anatolia.