Bohemond II of Antioch Bohemond II ( 1108 – 1130 ) was the Prince of Taranto and Prince of Antioch from 1111 . He was the son of the founder of the principalities , Bohemond I , and Constance , daughter of Philip I of France . Taranto was lost to Roger II of Sicily in 1128 . When his father Bohemond I died , absent from Antioch , Bohemond II was a child living in Apulia . His cousin Tancred took over the regency of Antioch until he died in 1112 ; it then passed to Roger of Salerno , with the understanding that he would relinquish it to Bohemond whenever the latter arrived . Roger , however , was killed at the Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119 , and the nobles of Antioch invited King Baldwin II of Jerusalem to govern the Principality . In 1124 , at the age of sixteen , he reached his majority . He spent the next two years attending to affairs of state in the Mezzogiorno . Finally , in October 1126 , after his eighteenth birthday , he finally left Apulia for Antioch . According to William of Tyre , he reached an agreement beforehand with his cousin William II , Duke of Apulia , that whichever of them died first , would leave his lands in Italy to the other . This is flatly contradicted by Alexander of Telese , who states that Bohemond left his lands under the governance of the Pope , and by Romuald of Salerno , who states that the regency of Taranto went to a relative of Bohemond ' s , Alexander , Count of Conversano . To whomever the principality of Taranto was left or promised , as part of his agreement to come to Antioch , Bohemond also married Baldwin II ' s daughter Alice . According to Matthew of Edessa Baldwin supposedly also promised him the crown of Jerusalem , but Matthew might be confusing Alice with her elder sister Melisende of Jerusalem , who also married a westerner , Fulk V of Anjou , around the same time . In 1127 , Bohemond besieged and captured Kafartab , killing all the inhabitants . He also attacked Shaizar , and Usamah ibn - Munqidh supposedly met the prince himself in battle ( and frightened him off , if Usamah is to be believed ) . The next years of his rule were marked by conflicts with Joscelin I of Edessa and skirmishes in the northern border . Both Bohemond and Joscelin attacked Aleppo individually , but refused to cooperate in a larger siege against the city . Roger of Salerno had given away territory to Joscelin , but Bohemond did not consider these donations legitimate as they had been made without his authority , even though he had been a minor at the time . The dispute came to open conflict between Antioch and Edessa , with Joscelin allying with the Muslims against Bohemond . The Latin Patriarch of Antioch placed an interdict over the County of Edessa . In 1128 , his cousin Roger II invaded and conquered Taranto , claiming it as the heir of William II of Apulia . Being away , Bohemond could do nothing to prevent this . That year , Baldwin II marched north to mediate in the dispute , and Joscelin abandoned his claims . Meanwhile , the atabeg Zengi consolidated his power over Aleppo and Mosul and the crusaders would never again have a chance to impose their authority over Aleppo . After the dispute was settled , Bohemond joined Baldwin II in attacking Damascus but the crusaders were defeated at the Battle of Marj al - Saffar in 1126 . Bohemond then turned to the north to recover Anazarbus and other territories lost to the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia . Leo I , Prince of Armenia allied with the Danishmend Emir Gazi Gümüshtigin against him , and Bohemond ' s army was lured into an ambush in February 1130 near Mamistra . Bohemond died in the struggle , and his blond head was embalmed , placed in a silver box , and sent as a gift to the caliph . From his marriage to Alice , only one daughter , Constance of Antioch survived . Alice took over the regency of Antioch for two - year - old Constance , until Baldwin II forced her to relinquish it to Joscelin . Both Baldwin II and Joscelin died some months later . William of Tyre describes him as " rather tall and of fine figure . He had blond hair and well - made features . His whole bearing plainly showed the prince to those who did not know him . His conversation was agreeable and easily won the favor of those who listened to him . He was of a generous nature and , like his father , truly magnificent . " Usamah ibn - Munqidh calls him ibn - Maymun , the " son of Bohemond . "