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Tancred remained the regent of Antioch for Bohemond II until his death in 1112 during a typhoid epidemic. He had married Cecile of France , but died childless. Tancred was buried in the porch of St. Peter , the cathedral of Antioch.
When his nephew Tancred left the main army at Heraclea Cybistra and attempted to establish a footing in Cilicia, the movement may have been already intended as a preparation for Bohemond's eastern principality. Bohemond was the first to take up a position before Antioch (October 1097).
There babies were named for him, crowds heard him denounce the perfidious Alexius, and shrines received sacred relics from his hands. In the spring of 1106 Bohemond married Constance, the daughter of Philip I of France. Bohemond, who 30 years before had been a landless young man, now stood at the pinnacle of his career. By September 1107 he was ...
He married Constance, the daughter of King Philip, and remained in France until 1107, when he set out to lay siege to the Byzantine town of Durazzo. Emperor Alexius, however, contained him and forced him to a truce.
Tancred, with Godfrey of Bouillon, gained victory at the Siege of Antioch which had lasted from October 1097 to June 1098; Godfrey of Bouillon and Tancred were among the first to mount the ramparts during the capture of Jerusalem; In 1100 Tancred assumed the government of the Principality of Antioch when Bohemund was captured by the Turks
Roger of sicily, and Bohemond, tancred was a representative of one of the more ambitious and better-connected kin groups of the medieval Mediterranean. 1 His career as a crusader was both highly visible and var-
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Tancred, 1076–1112, Crusader. He became a Crusader in 1096 with his uncle Bohemond I. After distinguishing himself at Nicaea, he struck out into Cilicia and besieged Tarsus, but was deprived of the city, after its fall, by Baldwin (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) and was forced to rejoin the main army.
