Another battle is fought in 1102 at Ramlah, with remnants of the Crusade of 1101, including Stephen, Count of Blois, William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, and Hugh VI of Lusignan.

Baldwin, due to faulty reconnaissance, has underestimated the size of the Egyptian force and rides to battle with only five hundred mounted knights to meet an army of several thousand.

Many of the Christain knights, realizing their king's error too late and already cut off from escape, charge into the heart of the Egyptian lines and are slaughtered, but Baldwin and some survivors newly arrived from Europe are able to barricade themselves in Ramla's single tower.

Baldwin has lost most of his army including Stephen of Blois, but he escapes under the cover of night, traveling to …

…Arsuf on his horse (unusual for this period, especially considering the high death rate of horses during the First Crusade and afterwards, the name of the horse has survived: she was called Gazala).

He does not want to risk venturing out of the city for fear of being captured by the Egyptians, so he convinces the English pirate Godric of Finchale to break through the Egyptian blockade of Jaffa, which is being besieged also by land.

Baldwin is able to assemble an army of eight thousand men with the arrival of a fleet of French and German crusaders.

In the subsequent Battle of Jaffa, he leads a cavalry charge that once again breaks the Egyptian lines and forces the Fatimid forces to flee to Ascalon.

Despite the loss of numerous knights, and the capture of Conrad, Constable of Jerusalem, and death of Stephen of Blois in the final charge from the doomed tower of Ramla, Baldwin is able to profit off the plunder left behind by the fleeing Egyptians.

Odo Arpin of Bourges had inherited the lordship of Dun and become viscount of Bourges between 1092 and 1095 after marrying Matilda of Sully, whose sister Alice is the daughter-in-law of Stephen, Count of Blois.

He may have shared the viscountcy with Matilda's father Gilo.

Odo at some point between 1097 and 1101 had sold his possessions in Bourges and Dun to King Philip I of France for sixty thousand shillings.

This may or may not have been done to finance his crusade.

He had participated in the Crusade of 1101, probably with Stephen of Blois, and had traveled through Constantinople, where he swore a loyalty oath to emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

Odo had been in Jaffa in 1101 and Jerusalem in 1102, and fights in the Second Battle of Ramla, where he is captured.

He is not executed because of his connection to Emperor Alexios, but is instead imprisoned in Ascalon and later Cairo; Alexios arranges for him to be released.