Born ‎ 1058 at in of Taranto, Italy, died ‎ /11 at Canosa di Puglia, Bari, Apulia, Italy‎, -1048 or -1047 years
Name: Bohemond I Mark of ANTIOCH Prince of Antioch
Surname: Antioch
Given Name: Bohemond I Mark of
NSFX: Prince of Antioch
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1057 in of Taranto,Italy
Death: 1110/1111 1
DSCR: tall, broad shouldered, handsome
Reference Number: Newlin
_UID: 26977A457D76CA469EE83B5B1D6BD08A7DFE
Occupation: Prince from 1099 to 1111 Antioch 2
Note:
!Prince of Antioch 1098-1111. [Oxford History of Medieval Europe]

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!Leader of the First Crusade, and founder of a Crusader dynasty in Syria. Eldest son of Robert Guiscard. Distinguished himself in a war (1081-85) against the Byzantine Empire. After his father's death in 1085, the Norman domain was divided between Bohemond and his brother. Bohemond joined the First Crusade to try to extend his possessions. As long as he remained with the Crusaders, Bohemond was their leader, although he was not officially recognized as such. Antioch was captured in June 1098, and Bohemond received it as a principality. He was captured by the Muslims in 1100 and held prisoner until 1103. After suffering a great defeat in 1104, he returned to western Europe to seek help. During his stay in France, he married the daughter of King Philip I of France. By 1107 he was head of a large army of adventurers who had been attracted by his military reknown, but instead of returning to Antioch, he led his forces against the Byzantine Empire which had restricted the expansion of his principality after 1098. His attack was unsuccessful and Bohemond was forced to accept a peace that made him a vassal of the Byzantine emperor. Bohemond's descendants ruled Antioch until 1268 and Tripoli from 1187-1289. [Funk & Wagnalls]

!2nd husband of Princess Constance of France; father of Bohemond II, Prince d'Antioche. [Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p. 267]

Son of Robert Guiscard and Aubree. Baptized "Mark" but given the nickname "Bohemund" after the giant because of his size in his mother's womb. [The Norman Achievement, p. 42]

Challenged the succession of his half-brother Roger Borsa following their father's death. He at once seized the cities of Oria, Otranto and Taranto, and in 1090 was actually in possession of Bari itself. Count Roger intervened and ended up dominating southern Italy himself. [The Norman, p. 64]

When the first Crusaders came to southern Italy, Bohemund joined them. His motives were doubtless complex, but with all his cunning there was a strain of romantic rashness in him, and he may have been genuinely moved by the impulse to rescue the Holy Places. But he also had his private ambitions to satisfy.
His recent advances in Apulia had been checked by his uncle Roger from Sicily, and his earlier campaigns in Greece and Thrace may have led him to hope for conquests in the east. In this respect his aspirations were evidently shared by the remarkable company which formed around him, and which resembled one of those Norman groups that in the previous generation had fought their way to power in Italy. [The Norman, p. 65]

He made such an impression on the young Byzantine princess, Anna Comnena, that in her old age she wrote, "He was so tall that he stood above the tallest. He was thin in loin and flank; broad shouldered and full chested; muscular in every limb; and neither lean nor corpulent but excellently proportioned. His hands
were full of action, his step firm, his head well enough set, though if you looked close you saw that he stooped a little. His body was very white all over, though in his face the white was mingled with red. His hair was blond and cut short to the ears. He was closely shaven. His blue-grey eyes gave him dignity but they could flash with anger. A certain charm hung about this man but was partly marred by a general air of the horrible. For in the whole of his body the entire man showed himself implacable and savage both in his size andglance, and even his laughter sounded to others like snorting. He was so made in mind and body that both courage and passion reared their crests within and both inclined to war." Such a man was destined to command, and by the time the Crusade reached Antioch late in 1097 Bohemund, who had taken a prominent part in the victory of Dorlaeum earlier in the year, was firmly established among the leaders. [The Norman, pp. 65-66]

Granted Antioch following the Great Battle of Antioch by his fellow crusaders, his red banner then flew over Antioch. Lacking a legitimate title, he approached the Pope becoming a nominal vassal with his investiture as Prince of Antioch in 1100 at the hands of Daimbert, archbishop of Pisa, the papal legate. Though Bohemund's later career was to be chequered, he was succeeded by his nephew Tancred and then by no fewer than six successors bearing the nickname he had made so famous. Indeed, the Norman dynasty at Antioch was to outlast the Norman dynasty in England, and even the Norman dynasty in Sicily. [The Norman, pp. 66-67]

One of the first acts of Bohemund when in precarious possession of Antioch in 1099 was to secure the cooperation of the Genoese fleet. [The Norman, p. 84]

It was Bohemund's greatest distinction as a tactician to make full use of his infantry in support of his mounted knights. [The Norman, p. 85]

Son of Robert Guiscard; m. Constance of France; father of Bohemund II. [Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, Family Trees]

Of all the leaders of the First Crusade, there was one whom Alexius Comnenus mistrusted more than any other. Bohemund, now Prince of Taranto, was the eldest son of Robert Guiscard who, had he not succombed to the most fortunate epidemic 12 years before, might well have displaced Alexius on the Byzentine throne. The fact that Robert had divorced Bohemund's mother to marry the formidable Sichelgaita, adn that he had subsequently left his Italian dominions to the latter's son Roger Borsa, made Bohemund more dangerous than ever: having nother to hope for in Italy, he could be expected to cause still greater havoc in the East. Moreover, his military reputation was unmatched in Europe.
Bohemund captured Antioch and expelled its Greek Patriarch and replaced him with a Latin. In the summer of 1100 Bohumund was captured by local Turks and carried off in chains to a far-away castle in Pontus. There he remained for three years until he was finally ransomed by Baldwin, who had become King of
Jerusalem in succession to his brother Godfrey. By the time Bohemund was released in 1103, the Crusaders were fighting Arabs, Turks and Byzantines more or less indiscriminately, with occasional brief truces; and in the early summer of 1104 they suffered a crushing defeat by the Turks at Harran, near Edessa. Bohemund's army escaped but the forces of Edessa were massacred almost to a man. Both Baldwin and his cousin, Joscelin of Courtenay, were captured. Bohemund, now dangerously threatened, left in the late autumn of 1104 for Europe to raise reinforcements. Arriving in Apulia early in 1105, he moved on to Rome in September to see Pope Paschal II. In a lifetime spent fighting the Eastern Empire, Bohemund never did it more harm than he did in those conversations with Pope Paschal. Henceforth his own narrow, predatory policy became the official policy of Christendom. Those Crusaders who for whatever reason dislike the Byzantines, now found their prejudices endorsed by the highest authority. To Alexius and his subjects, the entire Crusade was now
revealed as nothing more than a monstrous exercise in hypocrisy.
In September 1107 he once again attacked Byzantium; this time Alexius was ready for him. The invaders were surrounded and soon fell prey to famine and malaria and were forced to surrender. Bohemund was forced to swear fealty to the Emperor and recognize him as his suzerain for the Principality of Antioch
and to replace his Latin Patriarch with a Greek.
His career was over. He returned to Apulia, leaving Antioch in the hands of his nephew Tancred. He had been a charismatic leader of men; but his ambition had betrayed him and brought him low. He died three years later in relative obscurity, never again having dared to show his face in Outremer. [A Short History of Byzantium, p. 258-261]

c. 1056-1111. Norman adventurer from southern Italy, the son of Robert Guiscard, who became the ruler of the crusader state of Antioch from 1099-1111. He made himself prince of Antioch in contravention of his oath of allegiance to the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus in 1097 and in defiance of Raymond, count of Toulouse, leader of the crusade. He was captured by Muslims in 1100, released in 1103, and returned to Europe, where he married the daughter of Philip I of France. His campaign against the Byzantine empire was humiliatingly crushed by Alexius in 1108, and he never returned to Syria. [The Plantagenet Encyclopedia, p. 33]
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Father: Robert the Wily GUISCARD Duke of Apulia b: ABT 1027 in of Apulia,Italy
Mother: Aubree de BOURGOGNE b: ABT 1032 in of Buonalbergo,Benevento,Italy

Marriage 1 Constance CAPET Princess of France b: ABT 1078 in France
Married: ABT 1104 in ,,,France
Children
Bohemond II, Prince of ANTIOCH b: ABT 1107 in of Antioch,Greece

Sources:
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth Edition
Author: Stearns, Peter N., General Editor
Publication: Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2001
Page: The House of Tancred (1057-1287)
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: The Plantagenet Encyclopedia
Author: Hallam, Elizabeth, General Editor
Publication: Cresent Books, New York, 1996
Page: p. 33
Title: Royal House of Jerusalem: Counts of Edessa: Lords of Sidon and Caesarea Pedigree Chart
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: The Oxford History of Medieval Europe
Author: Holmes, George, ed.
Publication: Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1992
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Author: Bram, Leon L. V.P. and Ed. Dir.; Dickey, Norma H. Editor-in-Chief
Publication: Funk & Wagnalls, Inc., 1986
Title: Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. I
Author: von Redlich, Marcellus Donald Alexander R.
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986
Page: p. 267
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: The Norman Achievement, 1050-1100
Author: Douglas, David C.
Publication: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969
Page: p. 42, 64-67, 84-85
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
Author: Norwich, John Julius
Publication: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996
Page: Family Trees
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: A Short History of Byzantium
Author: Norwich, John Julius
Publication: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997
Page: p. 267-8
From 'Glick/Foster Ancestry' at Rootsweb.com

Born ‎± ABT. 1078 at Hermentruvilleby, Rouen, Seine-et-Maritimes, France, died ‎between Jan BET., 1123/24 and ‎, approximately 45 years
Name: Constance CAPET Princess of France
Surname: Capet
Given Name: Constance
NSFX: Princess of France
Sex: F
Birth: ABT 1078 in France
Death: Jan 1124
Reference Number: 498029
_UID: 9C68B54CB875464595CF504E316214CB31FE
Note:
!Married Bohemond I while he was in France soliciting support from her father King Philip I. [Funk & Wagnalls]

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!M.2. Boemond I, Prince d'Antioche; mother of Boemond II, Prince d'Antioche; dau. of Philippe I, King of France, and Bertha of Holland. [Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p. 267]
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Father: Philippe I CAPET King of France b: 23 May 1052/1053 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France
Mother: Bertha de HOLLAND Countess b: 1055 in Of Vlaardingen,Zuid Holland,Netherlands,Holland

Marriage 1 Bohemond I Mark of ANTIOCH Prince of Antioch b: ABT 1057 in of Taranto,Italy
Married: ABT 1104 in ,,,France
Children
Bohemond II, Prince of ANTIOCH b: ABT 1107 in of Antioch,Greece

Sources:
Title: Royal House of Jerusalem: Counts of Edessa: Lords of Sidon and Caesarea Pedigree Chart
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Author: Bram, Leon L. V.P. and Ed. Dir.; Dickey, Norma H. Editor-in-Chief
Publication: Funk & Wagnalls, Inc., 1986
Title: Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. I
Author: von Redlich, Marcellus Donald Alexander R.
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986
Page: p. 267
From 'Glick/Foster Ancestry' at Rootsweb.com