Raymond and Bohemond were King Baldwin's nearest male relatives in the paternal line, and could have claimed the throne if the king died without an heir or a suitable replacement.

Raymond and Bohemond were King Baldwin's nearest male relatives in the paternal line, and could have claimed the throne if the king died without an heir or a suitable replacement.

When Robert Guiscard died on 17 July 1085, Bohemond inherited his father's Adriatic possessions, which were soon lost to the Byzantines, while his younger half-brother Roger inherited Apulia and the Italian possessions.

When his father Bohemond I died, absent from Antioch, Bohemond II was a child living in Apulia.

His cousin Tancred took over the regency of Antioch until he died in 1112 ; it then passed to Roger of Salerno, with the understanding that he would relinquish it to Bohemond whenever the latter arrived.

Bohemond died in the struggle, and his blond head was embalmed, placed in a silver box, and sent as a gift to the caliph.

Bohemond left Tancred as regent once more and returned to Italy, where he died in 1111.

Tancred died in 1112 and was succeeded by Bohemond II, under the regency of Tancred's nephew Roger of Salerno, who defeated a Seljuk attack in 1113.

Bohemond III died in 1201.

However, Raymond soon died and Bohemond III sent Alice back to Leo with her infant son Raymond-Roupen.

She died later that year, allowing Bohemond to take full control.

She died later that year, allowing Bohemond to take full control.

Raymond of Tripoli died soon after Hattin, and had named Bohemond's elder son Raymond as his successor, but Bohemond ignored this and instead installed his second son, Bohemond IV, as count.

In 1190 Bohemond met the remnants of the German contingent arriving on the Third Crusade ; Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, had died on the way and some of his remains were buried in Antioch.

Bohemond died in 1201, and the succession was disputed between his son Bohemond IV and Raymond-Roupen, son of Raymond and Alice.

## Bohemond de Poitiers, Lord Consort of Boutron ( died 1244 ), married N Plivane, the Heiress and Lady of Boutron, and had issue ( they adopted their mother's title de Boutron as surname ):

Bohemond V died in January 1252.

When Bohemond V died in January 1252, 15-year-old Bohemond VI succeeded under the regency of his mother.

Bohemond died in 1275, leaving a son and three daughters: Bohemond VII, nominal prince of Antioch ( though Antioch had ceased to exist ) and count of Tripoli ; Isabelle de Poitiers, who died young ; Lucia de Poitiers, later titular countess of Tripoli ; and Marie de Poitiers ( d. ca 1280 ), married to Nicolas de Saint-Omer ( d. 1294 ).

* Bohemond IV of Antioch-Tripoli ( 1189 – 1233, also Prince of Antioch 1201 – 1216 and 1219 – 1233 )

* Bohemond V of Antioch-Tripoli ( 1233 – 1252, also Prince of Antioch )

## Bohemond IV of Antioch ( 1172 – 1233 ).

Bohemond IV of Antioch ( or de Poitiers ) ( c. 1172 – March 1233 ), also known as the One-Eyed ( in French le Cyclops ), was ruler of the Principality of Antioch ( a crusader state ) between 1201 and 1205, again between 1208 and 1216, and again from 1219 until his death.

Bohemond V of Antioch ( 1199 − 1252 ) was ruler of the Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, from 1233 to his death.

She was the daughter of Prince Bohemond IV of Antioch and Tripoli ( d. 1233 ) and his second wife Melisende of Lusignan ( who died after 1249 ).

The city of Antioch had been annexed by Bohemond of Hauteville in the First Crusade, and it was now ruled by Eleanor's flamboyant uncle, Raymond of Antioch, who had gained the principality by marrying its reigning Princess, Constance of Antioch.

Amalric and Shirkuh both besieged Bilbeis in 1164, but both withdrew due to Nur ad-Din's campaigns against Antioch, where Bohemond III of Antioch and Raymond III of Tripoli were defeated at the Battle of Harim.

At Easter in 1180, Raymond and his cousin Bohemond III of Antioch attempted to force Sibylla to marry Balian's brother Baldwin of Ibelin.

The war also spread to Tripoli and Antioch, where the Embriaco family, descended from Genoese crusaders, were pitted against Bohemond VI of Antioch, who supported the Venetians.

Hethum I of Armenia and Bohemond VI of Antioch had already submitted to the Mongols as vassals.

This was disputed by another branch of the Lusignan family: Maria of Antioch, daughter of Bohemond IV of Antioch and Melisende of Lusignan ( herself a daughter of Isabella I and Amalric II ), claimed the throne as the oldest living relative of Isabella I, but for the moment her claim was ignored.

He was then arrested by Saladin's deputy Taqi al-Din on allegations that he was planning to cede Harim to Bohemond III of Antioch.

* 1108: By the Treaty of Devol, signed in September, Bohemond I of Antioch has to submit to the Byzantine Empire, becoming the vassal of Alexius I.

* Bohemond I of Antioch, Crusader commander from Calabria

* January – Bohemond V, Prince of Antioch

* August – Bohemond I of Antioch is captured by the Danishmends at the Battle of Melitene, leaving Tancred as regent of the Principality of Antioch for two years.

* July 14 – donation of Altavilla: Bohemond I, the new crusader ruler of Antioch grants commercial privileges and the right to use warehouses ( fondaco ) and the church of Saint John to the Republic of Genoa.

* Bohemond VI of Antioch, ruler of the principality of Antioch

** Bohemond VII of Tripoli, prince of Antioch ( d. 1287 )

At Easter in 1180, the two factions were divided even further when Raymond and his cousin Bohemond III of Antioch attempted to force Sibylla to marry Baldwin of Ibelin.

Manuel sought the restoration of the Orthodox patriarchate in the kingdom, and arranged the marriage of Bohemond III of Antioch to his great-niece Theodora Comnena, sister of the queen-dowager Maria.

Raymond of Tripoli and his ally Bohemond III of Antioch were preparing to invade the kingdom to force the king to give his older sister Sibylla in marriage to Baldwin of Ibelin, Amalric's father-in-law.

Godfrey depicted with Bohemond I of Antioch | Bohemond, Raymond IV of Toulouse, and other Crusaders