BOHEMUND V.

bohemund v., son of bohemund iv. by his wife plaisance (daughter of hugh of gibelet), succeeded his father in 1233. he was prince of antioch and count of tripoli, like his father; and like him he enjoyed the alliance of the templars and experienced the hostility of armenia, which was not appeased till 1251, when the mediation of st louis, and the marriage of the future bohemund vi. to the sister of the armenian king, finally brought peace. by his first marriage in 1225 with alice, the widow of hugh i. of cyprus, bohemund v. connected the history of antioch for a time with that of cyprus. he died in 1251. he had resided chiefly at tripoli, and under him antioch was left to be governed by its bailiff and commune. bohemund vi. was the son of bohemund v. by luciana, a daughter of the count of segni, nephew of innocent iii. born in 1237, bohemund vi. succeeded his father in 1251, and was knighted by st louis in 1252. his sister plaisance had married in 1250 henry i. of cyprus, the son of hugh i.; and the cypriot connexion of antioch, originally formed by the marriage of bohemund v. and alice, the widow of hugh i., was thus maintained. in 1252 bohemund vi. established himself in antioch, leaving tripoli to itself, and in 1257 he procured the recognition of his nephew, hugh ii., the son of henry i. by plaisance, as king of jerusalem. he allied himself to the mongols against the advance of the egyptian sultan; but in 1268 he lost antioch to bibars, and when he died in 1275 he was only count of tripoli.