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Birth:          ABT 1110 
Death:          AFT 1136 Latakia

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_of_Antioch
Alice of Jerusalem (also Haalis, Halis, or Adelicia) was a Princess of Jerusalem. She 
later became Princess of Antioch.

Alice was the second daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem and Morphia of 
Melitene. She had three sisters. She was an aunt of Kings Baldwin III and Amalric I.

Baldwin II had become regent of Antioch after the defeat of the principality at the 
Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119. In 1126, the 18-year-old Bohemond, son of 
Bohemond I, the first prince of Antioch, arrived to claim his inheritance. Immediately 
after the principality was handed over to him, Bohemond was married to Alice; the 
marriage was likely part of the negotiations prior to Bohemond's arrival.

In 1130 Bohemond was killed in battle with the Danishmends, and Baldwin returned to 
Antioch to assume the regency, but Alice wanted the city for herself. She attempted to 
make an alliance with Zengi, the Seljuk atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo, offering to marry 
her daughter to a Muslim prince. The messenger sent by Alice to Zengi was captured 
on the way by Baldwin, and was tortured and executed. Alice refused to let Baldwin 
enter Antioch, but some of the Antiochene nobles opened the gates for Baldwin's 
representatives, Fulk, Count of Anjou (Alice's brother-in-law) and Joscelin I of Edessa. 
Alice at first fled to the citadel but finally flung herself on her father's mercy and they 
were reconciled. She was expelled from Antioch, but was allowed to keep for herself 
Latakia and Jabala, the cities which had been her dowry when she had married 
Bohemond. Baldwin left Antioch under the regency of Joscelin, ruling for Alice and 
Bohemond's young daughter Constance.

Baldwin also died in 1131. Baldwin was succeeded in Jerusalem by his eldest 
daughter, Alice's sister Melisende and her husband Fulk. Joscelin, too, died soon 
afterwards, and Alice again attempted to take control of Antioch, not wishing her 
young daughter to inherit the principality. The Antiochene nobles appealed to Fulk for 
help, and Alice allied with the rulers of the other two northern Crusader states, Pons of 
Tripoli and Joscelin I's son Joscelin II. Pons would not allow Fulk to pass through the 
County of Tripoli, and Fulk was forced to travel to Antioch by sea. Both Pons and 
Joscelin probably feared that Fulk wanted to impose the suzerainty of Jerusalem over 
the northern states, although it was also rumoured that Alice had simply bribed them. 
Fulk and Pons fought a battle near Rugia, but peace was eventually made, and Fulk 
restored the regency in Antioch, placing the principality under the control of Reynald 
Masoier.

Around 1135, Alice again attempted to take control of Antioch, negotiating with the 
Byzantine Empire for a husband for Constance; the future emperor Manuel Comnenus 
was a candidate. Some of the nobles of the principality, however, not wanting a Greek 
alliance, secretly summoned Raymond of Poitiers to marry Constance. The Patriarch, 
Ralph of Domfront, convinced Alice that Raymond was coming to marry her, but 
instead he himself performed the wedding of Raymond and the still-underage 
Constance.

Alice was humiliated and left Antioch, never to return. She died in Latakia after 1136. 
Of her other sisters, Hodierna married Raymond II of Tripoli, and Ioveta became 
abbess of the convent in Bethany. Alice's daughter Constance, after the death of 
Raymond of Poitiers, later married Raynald of Châtillon.

Parents
____ Baldwin II (ABT 1085 - 21 Aug 1131)
OF MELITENE Morphia (Malfia) (ABT 1080 - ABT 1127)

Siblings
OF ANTIOCH Alice (ABT 1110 - AFT 1136)

Marriage To ____ Bohemond II (ABT 1107 - Feb 1130)
    m. 1126 

Notes

Parents
____ Bohemond I (1052 - 3 Mar 1111)
____ Constance (1078 - 14 Sep 1125)

Children by ____ Bohemond II ABT 1107 - Feb 1130
OF ANTIOCH Constance (1128 - 1163)

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