By now, Boniface was Marquess of Montferrat, following the deaths of his father in 1191 and of Conrad, the newly elected King of Jerusalem, in 1192.
== Bonifacij v Italiji ==Junaška dela mladega Bonifacija je že v poznih 1070. letih opeval njegov dober prijatelj in dvorni trubadur Raimbaut de Vaqueiras v slavnem epu »Valen marques, senher de Monferrat«.