Bohémond III of Antioche

Bohémond III known as the stammerer , born between 1142 and 1149, died in 1201, prince d' Antioche (1163 - 1201), wire of Raymond of Poitiers, prince d' Antioche, and of Constancy of Antioche

Life

There have succeeded his mother in 1163, his father-in-law Renaud de Châtillon being prisoner with Alep for three years and in front of remaining to it still sixteen years. During an engagement against Nur AD-DIN, it itself was made prisoner, but was released the following year, on a diplomatic intervention of the emperor Manuel Ier Comnène. Bohémond made a visit of recognition in Byzance (1165) and, during the interviews with Manuel Ier, agreed to receive in Antioche a Greek patriarch, who was Athanase II. Mécontant, the Latin patriarch Aymeri of Limoges left the city by throwing the interdict on the city. It only with did not die of Athanase (1170) that it will return in the city.

After the disaster of Hattin (1187), Saladin invades the cross states, nevertheless Bohémond resisted victoriously the attacks of this one thanks to the assistance of a sicilian fleet. Raymond III of Tripoli died a little later having named like heir Raymond IV, the oldest son of Bohémond, but, at the end of two years, Bohémond preferred to point out its heir near him and to name his second wire Bohémond IV with the head of the Comté of Tripoli. Unfortunately, Raymond died in 1199.

In 1194, Bohémond was captured by Leon II, king d' Arménie, which wanted to release it only in exchange of the city, but the Aymeri patriarch of Limoges, supported by the populations Latin and Greek, refused to deliver the city and pushed back a Armenian attack. The conflict ended in the marriage of Raymond IV with Alix d' Arménie, niece of Leon II, and by the release of Bohémond.

Bohémond III died in 1201, and the fight for the succession of Antioche opened between Bohémond IV and Raymond-Roupen d' Antioche, the son of Raymond IV.

Marriages and children

Bohémond married in first weddings towards 1169 Orgueilleuse of Harenc (deceased about 1175) and had:

Raymond IV, count de Tripoli, died in 1199,
Bohémond IV, count de Tripoli and prince d' Antioche, born in 1172, died in 1233.

Widower it remaria towards 1176 with Théodora Comnène, and had:

Constance which died in low age,
Manuel of Poitiers, born in 1176, died in 1211.

In 1180, it separated from Théodora to marry Sibylle of which it had:

Alix of Poitiers; married in 1204 with Guy Ier Embriaco, lord of Gibelet (+ 1233)
Guillaume of Poitiers, listed in 1194

Having been excommunicated for its separation and its third marriage, it had to separate from Sibyl. In 1199 he marries Isabelle and had:

Bohémond of Poitiers, died in 1244, which was lord of Botron, having married the heiress of the seigniory.

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