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BOHEMUND II

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOHEMUND II  . (I1o8–1131), son of the
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great
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Bohemund by his
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marriage with Constance of France, was born in r ro8, the
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year of his
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father's defeat at Durazzo . In 1126 he came from Apulia to
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Antioch (which, since the fall of Roger, the successor of Tancred, in "9, had been under the regency of Baldwin II.); and in 1127 he married Alice, the younger daughter of Baldwin . After some trouble with Joscelin of Edessa, and after joining with Baldwin II. in an attack on
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Damascus (1127), he was defeated and slain on his
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northern frontier by a
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Mahommedan army from Aleppo (1131) . He had shown that he had his father's courage: if time had sufficed, he might have shown that he had the other qualities of the first Bohemund .

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