Antioch
A Succession of Regents
During the remaining few years of his regency, Tancred was almost continuously in conflict with either his Muslim neighbors or the imperial forces. In 1110 and again in 1111, Mawdud, atabeg of Mosul, in alliance with Damascus, attacked Latin Syria. In 1111 Tancred recaptured eastern Cilicia and the city of Lattakieh, and then Jabala, Buluniyas and Marqab from the Muslims. Upon the death of Tancred in 1112, his relative Roger of the Principate was named regent for the still-young heir and namesake of Bohemond I. Direct rule of Antioch by Jerusalem attained in 1119 with the death of Roger at the battle of Ager Sanguinis and the subsequent naming of Baldwin II of Jerusalem (Baldwin of Bourcq/Baldwin II of Edessa) as regent in Roger's stead. Baldwin II's regency was to last, with the exception of his time in captivity from 1123 to 1124, until the arrival from Apulia of Bohemond II in 1126. The younger Bohemond was to carry on the policies of his father and cousin, dying just four years after his arrival while fighting in Cilicia, and bequeathing to the principality a two-year-old female heiress, Constance. Once again Antioch was ruled by a regency, initially by Baldwin II yet again. With the king’s death in 1131 his daughter Alice, widow of Bohemond II and mother of Constance, contrived, with the aide of both Tripoli and Edessa (both of which wished to abolish the overlordship of Jerusalem) to ascend to power. King Fulk, husband to Baldwin's heiress Melesende, was obliged to march north to take control of the situation, claiming the regency for himself. In 1133 the king chose Raymond of Poitiers as groom for Constance, thus ensuring an Antiochene leadership more amenable to the interests of Jerusalem. The marriage between the 36-year-old Raymond and the 10-year-old Constance took place in 1136.