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bohemondoftaranto-prelimpagei-Press Bohemond of Taranto bohemondoftaranto-prelimpageii-Press bohemondoftaranto-prelimpageiii-Press Bohemond of Taranto Crusader and Conqueror Georgios Theotokis ANIMPRINTOFPEN&SWORDBOOKSLTD YORKSHIRE–PHILADELPHIA bohemondoftaranto-prelimpageiv-Press FirstpublishedinGreatBritainin2020by PEN & SWORD MILITARY AnimprintofPen&SwordBooksLtd Yorkshire – Philadelphia Copyright#GeorgiosTheotokis,2020 ISBN978-1-52674-428-9 TherightofGeorgiosTheotokistobeidentiﬁedastheauthorofthiswork hasbeenassertedbyhiminaccordancewiththeCopyright,Designsand PatentsAct1988. ACIPcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedortransmittedinany formorbyanymeans,electronicormechanicalincludingphotocopying, recordingorbyanyinformationstorageandretrievalsystem,without permissionfromthePublisherinwriting. TypesetbyConcept,Huddersﬁeld,WestYorkshire,HD45JL PrintedandboundinEnglandbyCPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY Pen&SwordBooksLtdincorporatestheImprintsofAviation,Atlas,Family History,Fiction,Maritime,Military,Discovery,Politics,History,Archaeology, Select,WharncliffeLocalHistory,WharncliffeTrueCrime,MilitaryClassics, WharncliffeTransport,LeoCooper,ThePraetorianPress,RememberWhen, WhiteOwl,SeaforthPublishingandFrontlinePublishing. ForacompletelistofPen&Swordtitlespleasecontact PEN&SWORDBOOKSLTD 47ChurchStreet,Barnsley,SouthYorkshire,S702AS,England E-mail:[email protected] Website:www.pen-and-sword.co.uk or PEN&SWORDBOOKS 1950LawrenceRd,Havertown,PA19083,USA E-mail:[email protected] Website:www.penandswordbooks.com bohemondoftaranto-prelimpagev-Press To my Brigita – for ever bohemondoftaranto-prelimpagevi-Press bohemondoftaranto-prelimpagevii-Press Contents ListofMaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix ListofPlates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. EarlyLifeandKinDynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2. TheNormanInvasionoftheBalkans,1081–83 . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3. TheNormanInvasionoftheBalkans,1082–84 . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 4. TheInterludePeriod,1085–97 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 5. TheCrusader – FromItalytotheCity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 6. TheCrusader – ConqueringAntioch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 7. LordofAntioch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 8. BacktoEurope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Epilogue:DeathandHeritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 bohemondoftaranto-prelimpageviii-Press bohemondoftaranto-prelimpageix-Press List of Maps TheareaaroundDyrrachium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 TheAlbanianriversystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 ThesouthernBalkans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 TherouteoftheFirstCrusade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 TheMiddleEast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132