Behémond II, Prince of Antioch and Taranto

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Name:
He was also the Duke of Calabria.

Died:
He was killed in battle.

Behémond married Alice de Rethel, Princess of Jerusalem in 1126. Alice (daughter of Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem and Malfia) was born about 1110; died after 1136. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Constance of Antioch was born in 1127; died in 1163.

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was also the Duke of Calabria.
• Military: 1098; He was one of the leaders of the First Crusade in 1098.

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Bohémond married Constance of France, Princess of France in 1106 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire, France. Constance (daughter of Philip I "the Amorous", King of France and Bertha of Holland) was born about 1078; died between 1124 and 1126. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: birth to death

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He was the Norman conqueror of Southern Italy.

History:
Robert was a leader in the First Crusade.

In 1098, he captured at Antioch.

Robert married Albereda in 1054, and was divorced in 1058. Albereda was born about 1032; died after Jul 1122. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Crowned: 1060; In 1030, he was crowned King of France.
• Reign: From 1060 to 1108; King of France (House of Capet)

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Death: Stuart (2002) states he died 24 July 1108.

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Philip married Bertha of Holland in 1072, and was divorced in 1091. Bertha (daughter of Florenz I, Count of Holland and West Friesland and Gertrude of Saxony) was born about 1055; died in 1093 in Montreuil-sur-Mer, Hauts-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tancred married Fredesende of Normandy. Fredesende (daughter of Robert I "the Devil", Duke of Normandy) died in 1057. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was also the Duke of Burgundy and the Count of Paris.
• Crowned: 1031; He was crowned the King of France in 1031.
• Reign: From 1031 to 1060; King of France (House of Capet)

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Birth: Weis (1982) gives his birth as 1005/11.

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Henry married Anne of Kiev on 19 May 1051 in Rheims, Grand Est, France. Anne (daughter of Jaroslaw I Wladimiroswtsch, Grand Prince of Kiev and Ingegard of Sweden, Princess of Sweden) was born in 1036 in Kiev, Ukraine; died in 1075; was buried in Villers Abbey, Villers-la-Ville, Wallonia, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: She was also know as Anna Yaroslavna, Anne of Rus, Anne de Russie, or Agnes de Russie.
• Religion: 1059; In 1059 Henry began feuding with the Church over issues related to Gregorian Reform. During this time, Pope Nicholas II sent Anne a letter counselling her to follow her conscience to right wrongs and intervene against oppressive violence, while also encouraging her to advocate with her husband so that he might govern with moderation. According to Delorme, some historians have interpreted this letter from the Pope as being indicative of Anne's conversion to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy.
• Religion: say 1060; She founded the Abbey of St. Vincent at Senlis.
• Offices Held: 4 Aug 1060; When Henry I died on 4 August 1060, she became the Queen Regnant for her young son, Philip.
• Last Full Review: 25 Jun 2020

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Birth: Sewell (2008) gives her birth date as 1024.

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Buried:
In 1682, the Jesuit antiquary Claude-Francois Menestrier announced that he had discovered Anne's tomb at the Cistercian Abbey of Villiers. The discovery was subsequently disputed, as Villiers was not built until the thirteenth century, although it's possible Anne's remains had been moved there at some point following her death. Whatever monument may have been there was destroyed in the French Revolution.

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Marriage Date: von Redlich (1941) and Weis (1976) and Sewell give their marriage date as 29 January 1044.

Married:
Henry was nearly twenty years older than Anne.

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: He was also known as Florenz I Count of Holland.

Florenz married Gertrude of Saxony about 1050. Gertrude (daughter of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony and Elica von Schweinfort) was born about 1030; died on 4 Aug 1113. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]