Bohemond II (Antioch)

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Bohemond II (* 1108 , † 1130 ) was prince of Antioch and Tarent . He was the son of the founder of the principality, Bohemond I, and his wife Constance of France , the daughter of King Philip I. During his minority, Tankred of Tiberias , his cousin (1111–1112), Roger of Salerno (1112–1119 ) ruled for him ) and Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1119–1126).

In 1126 he came to Antioch from Apulia to accept the government of his principality from the hands of the king of Jerusalem . The following year he married Alice of Jerusalem , Baldwin's younger daughter, and participated in his father-in-law's attack on Damascus . In 1128 he lost the Principality of Taranto to Roger II of Sicily . The next few years of his reign in Antioch were marked by conflicts with Joscelin I of Edessa and skirmishes on the northern border. In 1130 Bohemond's army was defeated by the Danischmenden under Gümüştegin , he was killed in this battle.

From his marriage to Alice he left a daughter, Constance of Antioch .

credentials

  1. Amin Maalouf : The holy war of the barbarians. The Crusades from the perspective of the Arabs. Diederichs, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-424-01250-5 (licensed edition. (= Dtv. 34018). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-423-34018-5 ).

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Bohemond I. Prince of Antioch
1111–1130
Constance
Bohemond I. Prince of Taranto
1111–1128
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