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See also:BOHEMUND I
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1058–1111), See also:prince of See also:Otranto and afterwards of See also:Antioch, whose first name was Marc, was the eldest son of See also:Robert Guiscard, See also:dux Apuliae et Calabriae, by an See also:early See also:marriage contracted before 1059
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He served under his See also:father in the See also:great attack on the See also:East See also:Roman See also:empire (xo8oro85), and commanded the See also:Normans during Guiscard's See also:absence (1082–1084), penetrating into See also:Thessaly as far as See also:Larissa, but being repulsed by Alexius See also:Comnenus
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This early hostility to Alexius had a great See also:influence in determining the course of his
expansion of Antioch to the See also:south
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Ransomed in 1I03 by the generosity of an Armenian prince, See also:Bohemund made it his first See also:object to attack the neighbouring See also:Mahommedan See also:powers in See also:order to gain supplies
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But in heading an attack on See also:Harran, in 1104, he was severely defeated at Balich, near Rakka on the See also:Euphrates
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The defeat was decisive; it made impossible the great eastern principality which Bohemund had contemplated
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It was followed by a See also:Greek attack on See also:Cilicia; and despairing of his own resources, Bohemund returned to See also:Europe for reinforcements in order to defend his position
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His attractive See also:personality won him the See also:hand of See also:Constance, the daughter of the See also:French See also: He did so; but Alexius, aided by the Venetians, proved too strong, and Bohemund had to submit to a humiliating See also:peace (I1o8), by which he became the See also:vassal of Alexius, consented to receive his pay, with the See also:title of Sebastos, and promised to cede disputed territories and to admit a Greek See also:patriarch into Antioch . 'Henceforth Bohemund was a broken See also:man . He died without returning to the East, and was buried at See also:Canossa in See also:Apulia, in 1111 . |
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