 Boniface I thereupon appointed William to hold the Peloponnese as a fief from him.Geoffrey of Villehardouin then paid homage to William and the two, with one hundred knights given them by the king plus each leader's own personal retinue, set off to conquer the rest of the peninsula.From Nauplia William and Geoffrey of Villehardouin made their way north to Corinth, and thence along the coast of the gulf to Patras, where they took the city and the castle too.