BO'HEMUND I. (Lat. Bohemundus) (e.1066. 1111). The eldest son of Robert Guiscard, the Norman Duke of Apulia and Calabria, born some time between 1052 and 1060. Ile distin guished himself in the war carried on by his father against Alexius Comnenus (1081-84). Rob ert Guiseard died in 1085, leaving his property to his younger son, Roger, but Bohemund fought with the latter until 1089. when a peace was made by which Bohemund received a part of Apulia. When the First Crusade was preached Bohemund saw in it an opportunity for extend ing his possessions. he was the ablest of all the Crusaders, and as long as he remained with them was really their leader, although not offi cially recognized as such. In June, 1098, when Antioch was captured, he received it as a prin cipality and remained there, taking no further part in the expedition against Jerusalem. In August, 1100, he was captured by the Mussul mans, and held a prisoner until flay, 1103. During his absence his cousin, Tanered. ruled over Antioch. In 1104. after suffering a great defeat, he returned to the west to seek aid, and while in France married Constance, the daugh ter of Philip 1. In 1107 he found himself at
the head of a. large army of adventurers, who had been attracted by his renown. Seized with the restless Norman desire of adventure, he led his forces against the Greek Empire, with which he had been at enmity since 1098. He failed, and after a year's fighting a peace was made by which Bohemund became the vassal of the Emperor for his principality of Antioch. Jle never returned to Syria, going instead to Apulia, where he died in 1111. Consult Hagen meyer's Grata Froncorem (Heidelberg, 1890), which, in the notes, gives full reference to all faets.—BOIIENIUND 11., son of Bohemund 1., was a minor at the death of his father, and became Prince of Antioch only in 1126. In 1127 he mar ried Alice, daughter of Baldwin 11. of Jerusa lem. He was killed in battle in 1130. The 1:,ter rulers of this name are of little impor tance. Their dates are: BOHEMUND Ill. (1162