RAYMUND, prince of Antioch (1099-1149), was the son of William VI., count of Poitou. On the death of Bohemund II. of Antioch (q.v.), the principality devolved upon his daughter, Constance, a child of less than I 0 years of age (I 130). Fulk, the king of Jerusalem, and, as such, guardian of Antioch, sent envoys to England to offer her hand to Raymund, who was then at the court of Henry I. Raymund reached Antioch in 1135. Here he was married to Constance by the patriarch of Antioch, but not until he had done him homage. The marriage excited the in dignation of Alice, the mother of Constance, who had been led by the patriarch to think that it was she whom Raymund desired to wed; and the new prince had thus to face the enmity of the princess dowager and her party. In 1137 he had also to face the advent of the eastern emperor, John Comnenus, who had come south partly to recover Cilicia from Leo, the prince of Armenia, but partly, also, to assert his rights over Antioch.
Raymund was forced to do homage, and even to promise to cede his principality as soon as he was recompensed by a new fief, which John promised to carve for him in the Mohammedan territory to the east of Antioch. The expedition of 1138, in which Raymund joined with John, and which was to conquer this territory, failed. New disputes arose, and in 1142 John ravaged the neighbourhood of Antioch, but was unable to attain any effective decision. When, however, Raymund demanded from Manuel, who had succeeded John in 1143, the cession of some of the Cilician towns, he found that he had met his match. Manuel forced him to a humiliating visit to Constantinople, during which he renewed his oath of homage and promised to receive a Greek patriarch. In 1149 he fell in battle during an expedition against Nureddin.
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