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Raymond of Poitiers , born in 1115, dead the June 27th 1149, prince d' Antioche of 1136 with 1149, wire of Guillaume IX of Poitiers, duke of Aquitaine and count de Poitiers and of Philippa of Toulouse. He married in 1136 Constance, 10 years old, girl and heiress of Bohémond II, prince d' Antioche and of Alix of Jerusalem, and ensured the government of the principality after regencies of Baudouin II and Foulque, kings de Jérusalem. The marriage had had the approval of the patriarch of Antioche, but not that of Alix from Jerusalem, which Raymond had made accept that it was to marry it.

The first years of the common reign of Raymond and Constancy were occupied by conflicts with the Byzantine Empereur Jean II Comnène, which sought to recover the Cilicie and to reaffirm its rights on Antioche. Raymond was obliged to lend homage to him and to commit themselves yielding Antioche to him as soon as Jean II would have conquered grounds more in the east to him. The forwarding of 1138, to which share Jean and Raymond took, was naturally a failure: Raymond was not in a hurry to be conquered a stronghold, which would have meant for him the loss of Antioche. Jean went back to Constantinople after having asked in vain for the return of the citadel of Antioche.

There was then a fight between Raymond and the patriarch. Raymond was obstructed by the homage that it had to lend to the patriarch in 1135, which was member of the opposition and which had been made elect in an irregular way. Raymond triumphed and made deposit the patriarch in 1139. In 1142, Jean II Comnène returned to the attack, but Raymond refused to recognize his preceding tender, and Jean devastated the access of the city, incompetent of launching another action against Raymond. Thereafter Manual Ier Comnène, successor of Jean II, obliged Raymond to make a visit humiliating in Constantinople where it had to renew his homage and to accept the presence of a Greek patriarch.

During the Second crusade, Louis VII, king de France and his wife Aliénor of Aquitaine, niece of Raymond, stopped in Antioche. Raymond sought to incite them to take Alep and Césarée before going down towards Jerusalem, but Louis VII refused.

In 1149, it was killed with the Bataille of Inab, during a forwarding against Nur AD-DIN.

Raymond is described by Guillaume de Tyr like a very noble lord of ascent, large and elegant figure, most beautiful of the princes of the ground, a man of a conversation and a charming affability , extremely in the handling of the weapons and the military experiment, protective of the letters although illiterate , a sincere believer and a husband faithful, but a personality heading, coleric and not very reasonable.

Of its marriage with Constancy of Antioche, it had had:

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