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Bohemund I (c.1055-1111). The eldest son of Robert Guiscard, the Norman Duke of Apulia and Calabria. Bohemund saw the First Crusade as an opportunity for extending his possessions. He was the de facto leader of the Crusaders.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 674. (The four leaders of the First Crusade, Godfrey, Raymond, Bœmund and Tancred, drawn by A. de Neuville.)
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