Bohemond I Guiscard of Antioch +
1Christopher Harper-Bill and Elisabeth Van Houts, A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World, (2002).
"Normans in the Mediterranean
MATTHEW BENNETT
At Christmas 1099, Bohemond, Prince of Antioch, completed the pilgrimage upon which he had set out four years earlier by praying in the church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. The city had been captured by the First Crusaders nine months earlier while Bohemond was still securing control over his new territories in northern Syria. Up to the time of the capture of Antioch he had been one of the main leaders of the crusade. He was by descent a Norman, his grandfather Tancred of Hauteville having a quiver-full of sons who sought their fortunes outside the duchy. Bohemond's father, Robert Guiscard, had made himself master of southern Italy in a series of campaigns from the early 1050s into the 1070s. In 1081, Guiscard had even invaded the Byzantine territory of what is now Albania and nothern Greece and defeated its emperor in battle. Bohemond (his usual name stemming from a legendary giant) continued his father's policies of expansion at the expense of the Christian Greeks both before and after the First Crusade but it was that expedition against the Muslims that gave him the opportunity to seize one of the greatest cities of the Levant and create his principality.".