#bohemond i of antioch

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Suivez les aventures de Baudouin IV de Jérusalem, de Bohémond de Tarente, d'Édouard Ier d'Angleterre et des autres souverains et souveraines de France, d'Angleterre, de Terre Sainte et de Navarre.

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Hi can I request a part 2 for unfaithful baldwin where he regrets or the reader escapes?

Find her! Find her!

Baldwin IV screamed at the top of his lungs. He was sweating so much. His beautiful blonde hair was drenched in sweat. His eyes wide in fear and shock. Baldwin IV quickly shifted his hair back by his hand as he screamed in his thunderous voice. "What are you doing, does it take so much time to follow my orders"? Knights assembled quickly in front of the king. Shocked at such furious face. Baldwin IV was known to have strong mind and great courage. It's unlikely to see him furious. He manages to remain calm in most tense situations. The knights assembled in front of the king confused. The king's mistress was surprised as well. She slowly approached her beloved but kept safe distance. Last thing she wanted for her to get scolded as well.

"Your queen consort is missing" "Which one of you helped her escape" "Tell me now and I will spare you"

The knights trembled in fear not knowing what to respond. For the queen consort to go missing. Especially when they were given strict orders to keep continuous watch on her was not going to go well for them. Nobody dared to speak up and Baldwin IV 's mistress watched everything astonished. Even she didn't think the queen will be able to escape. "Helping her escape is a crime against crown" "I will investigate the person who helped her escape" "The person will not only be punished but their family as well as people who shares their nearest blood kin with them will suffer as well". "This fate can be avoided if you admit right now which one of you helped her escape and where she might be, right now". The whole hall grew quite and King Baldwin IV waited patiently for an answer. The hall became so quiet that one could easily hear the sound of water dripping. King Baldwin IV waited patiently as time went by his face became redder and his eyes grew colder. The king's mistress couldn't help but think if (Y/N) is found by the king. She will never be able to have same relationship as before with the king. "Baldwin IV is sensitive about his honour" "I know that he is not only upset about her escaping due to personal reasons but also about his honour as well ". She knew the king despite the love he shared for his queen won't be happy about people gossiping or perhaps mocking him that he can't control his wife. "This has taken a huge blow on him" "He has been possesive and careful when it came to her" "Ever since she caught us the king knew she would try to escape". "Nobody thought she would be successful though"

"Quick get the horses ready we will find the queen, I will personally lead the search". Baldwin IV repeated last words with so much venom that it sent shiver across everyone's spine Baldwin IV 's mistress although scared was shocked at sudden proposal ran towards the king forgetting about gravity of the situation. "Your majesty you recently caught another disease" "It won't be good for your health" . Baldwin IV raised his hand up indicating "Stop". The mistress grew quite. She quickly composed herself and said "My apologise your Grace" "As your humble subject I should have been more careful" .

"Who let a woman in knights meeting"

The mistress was shocked since Baldwin IV has never spoken to her like that, "My apologise my lord I will leave right away"

"Make sure you do, it seems like the palace has been lenient when it comes to security". The mistress didn't say anything and quietly left plotting her revenge when the queen is found. "I will ensure to win him back and make the queen's position so poor that she will seem invisible in palace"

"Gaurds, prepare the horses and ensure to send message to nearby Kingdoms as well" "Repeat the same message I gave you today to them as well"

Meanwhile:

"Thank you so much". I bowed against lady Sybilla the wife of King Bohemond III of Antioch I remember one of the Muslim sources mentioned her as Muslim spy but I never thought that it would be true. "No need to thank me" she replied with poisonous smile. "Just ensure not to get caught, erase all your traces" "In case you do, don't tell them who helped you". I asked her again doubtful "King Bohemond III of Antioch doesn't know, does he?".

"No he doesn't" she replied. "Now leave" "Your and mine journey ends here"." Leave as fast as you can, we have so less time right now" I smiled again and bowed one last time before I left in disguise looking for time portal. It took me some time until I finally reached my destination. "This has to be it" I thought as I looked at the place. Hopefully my calculations are correct. I need to hurry before I am caught or else my life will be over. Baldwin IV will be even harsher about guarding me but before that, I shuddered as I thought of his face red in anger. His eyes wide and cold and his teeth gritting. "Worst he can do is severely scolding and lot more restriction. I quickly dismissed myself of these pessimistic thoughts and went back thinking about my original plan . Based on my calculation time portal must be here. Time portal should open inside this river right now.

(Y/N)!!!

I froze. No! No! No! Why now?! Does universe really hate me so much. I could see the king, my husband with group of knights "Gaurds quickly stop the queen". Seeing them approaching I started running as far as I could, of course I was not match for trained knights with horses. I could hear my husband pleading"(Y/N) please don't jump" "Killing yourself will lead to enternal damnation in hell" "Your body won't be buried" "You won't be accepted by church". "Come back to me and I will forgive you". Angry I yelled at my husband "I hate you" "I will rather go into damnation of hell than being with you" "You killed whatever we had because of your adultery" My husband stopped at looking back at me shocked and hurt "(Y/N)"

Later:

"You mean to tell me that the queen jumped in river in front of everyone and was never found".

"Indeed my lady" replied the knight who secretly acted as spy for lady sybilla of Antioch. Sybilla laughed joyfully and said "In front of king as well" "How did the king react". The knight snickered and said "He later jumped in river as well when nobody was able to find her". "The king kept on trying to find the queen" "Finally he was physically retrainsed by his knights" "Everyone has accepted that the queen drowned in sorrow".

"After that" Lady sybilla of Antioch smiled like a excited child. The knight gleamed in joy and said "The king looked mentally dead when we arrived back" "He didn't say anything much" "Later he blamed his mistress saying that she was the one who seduced him" "That it was her fault this happened"

Lady sybilla nodded with joy and said "The king is known to be mentally strong" " Even when he first learned of his disease he was calm and accepting about it". Lady sybilla smiled again saying "That girl gave me more than I was expecting". "Soon Jerusalem will be ours"

Back to our time:

I was found in dead of night by station master near the railway tracks. I was drenched in water. I was asked questions but I could barely say anything in state of shock. I later was admitted to hospital. Soon I was discharged and left for home. Once I came back home.I was happy to wear my cozy clothes. "Finally, it's all over" I took my IPad and sat on my sofa surfing the web. I was curious about how events played out after I left. I did quick Google search and found out:

"King Baldwin IV ensured the gaurds kept close eye on Queen consort (Y/N) of Jerusalem after she found the king with his mistress. She was monitored all the time. Queen (Y/N) was able to escape though. Nobody knows how she was able to escape. Not even most researched historian of crusades can tell. Some historian have suggested that Raymond, count of Tripoli helped her with a maid acting as her spy to escape. While some suggested king Bohemond III of Antioch bribed some church members to help her escape but nobody knows for sure. The king went into his deep sorrow. His disease got infected worse because of swimming in contaminated water. We know now that he suffered with dysentery and swimming made it worse. The loss of queen affected his reign. The king reign was no doubt affected because of loss of his queen.....

I read further and realised how mistress was shunned. How her seduction was blamed and how Baldwin IV was thought to be king easily manipulated until recently rest all events went same with princess sybilla. "Yes, he is not a man to be manipulated" I thought Although unlike before Jerusalem did have quite a few losses like never before, I read further was able to find "Although king died of natural causes his body was never found". This last line seemed suspicious to me. "Wait.. wasn't he buried but his bones later removed from tomb in the late 12th-13th century after the recapture by the Ayyubid dynasty". I had a bad feeling about this, something isn't right

"Ma, Cherie" I froze. "Please not again". I turned around fearful and saw my king behind me looking sickly. "You shouldn't question my sense of duty" "I knew it I could find you ". I gulped in fear. "What did I get myself into" I thought

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An Incomplete List of The Old Guard AU Fic Ideas

All Our Lives: SG1/TOG crossover in which the Old Guard have been called many things over the years, but they’ve never been accused of being aliens with god complexes before

Hauteville!Nicky: In which Nicolò di Genova begins life as the bastard son of Prince Bohemond I of Antioch

Maps For The Getaway: PJO/TOG crossover, in which, following their capture by Merrick, the Old Guard lays low at Camp Half-Blood

Standing Stones, Buried Blades: HP/TOG crossover, in which famed alchemist Nicholas Flamel is one of the many, many pseudonyms of Nicolò di Genova

Those Fields of England: HP/TOG crossover, in which Harry Potter is the newest immortal

More Terrible Fic Ideas

[the-archlich]

I see you read a book about Bohemond I, Prince of Antioch. Do you know Tancred, Prince of Galilee? What do you think of him?

I have a generally high opinion of Tancred. He was an excellent commander, a skilled governor, and an even more impressive warrior. He possessed ever knightly virtue Frankish/Norman society expected of someone in his position.

That said, there are certain controversies about him I want to look into more before rendering final judgment. For example, he granted his protection to the Jewish residents of Jerusalem during it's conquest, but they were ultimately slaughtered anyway (certainly an atrocity for the ages). Did he withdraw his protection from them (as some have said) or was this done against his will? If he did withdraw his protection, was it because of his own decisions or was he coerced? Or were they merely slaughtered despite his protection, with him unable to retaliate against this betrayal by his comrades? That's the sort of thing I need to dig into more before rendering a final judgment, because I currently am not sure what I think is the full truth of the matter. So for now, I think well of him. My regular readers might compare him to Xu Huang or the fictionalized version of Zhao Yun. But that all comes with a big asterisk because I'm not sure what I think of some of the more problematic and complex aspects of his life.

Regardless of all the above, I think his capabilities are beyond reproach. Within the era, you will be hard pressed to find a better warrior, a braver commander, or more capable governor. There's a reason Bohemond left everything in his hands and didn't spare a second to worry about what was happening in his absence. Yewdale has a very different opinion of the man, but I can't agree with his assessment.

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Events 2.9 (before 1950)

474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. 1098 – A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major battle against the Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch. 1539 – The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee. 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake. 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. 1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. 1778 – Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1822 – Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola. 1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election. 1849 – The new Roman Republic is declared. 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama 1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau. 1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency. 1893 – Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan. 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established. 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes. 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). 1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. 1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized. 1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1929 – Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities. 1932 – Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law. 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey. 1941 – World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate. 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. 1943 – World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. 1945 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. 1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.

[that-starlit-wanderer]

Third and final volume of Runciman's A History of the Crusades is wrapped up! It was a pretty easy read overall, and it's not hard to understand why it's been so influential.

This was really the first history in the west that dismantled the old view of the Crusaders as chivalric defenders of Christendom. After finishing up I skimmed the Wikipedia article for some insight into the historiography and I think I can understand why more modern historians would say that Runciman might have pushed too far in the other direction, i.e. that the Crusaders were nothing but a bunch of violent thugs...but that does kind of fit with my own personal biases as well so I guess I didn't push back too hard while I was reading these books (although even with my Byzantine sympathies, the description of the Fourth Crusade as the greatest crime against humanity ever committed feels juuuust a little excessive).

One of the biggest questions around the Crusades is to what degree religious piety (or zealotry, more like) was a motivating factor, and I do feel even more strongly now that among the leaders of the Crusade it was at best a convenient excuse. Bohemond de Hauteville was so eager to fulfill his Crusading vows to reach Jerusalem that he...made sure to stop and establish a principality in Antioch while the Crusaders moved on without him. No other motives there, definitely not following in the footsteps of his father's conquest of Sicily and the completely unprovoked Norman attacks on the Byzantines in the 1080s (err, there go my biases again...).

The other thing that really struck me that I didn't know about before was the extent of the rivalry between the Italian city-states at this time. Man those guys hated each other, especially Venice and Genoa.

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☮ - ൠ - ☠ - ♡ - Tiberias

P.S. I'm the anon who challenged you

Nonny - the audacity! First you challenge me and now you try to appease me by asking me to rant about my boy??? My supreme KoH husband??? Fie, fie! 😁

But I shall gladly comply, of course. Here you go, some (much-needed) headcanons for Uncle Tibs:

TIBERIAS

☮ Friendship

Since he isn't the most trusting person and has made more than a few enemies at court over the years, Tiberias has few actual friends. Among them, he counts for example his cousin Bohemond of Antioch and the Grand Master of the Hospitallers, Roger de Moulins. With his family members, things are a little trickier: Tiberias is too wary of Sibylla with her changing whims and fancies to actually consider her a friend, and though he certainly harboured a great fondness for Baldwin, his feelings towards the young king are better described as a mixture of fatherly affection and the guarded respect of a great lord for his sovereign.

Tiberias loved Godfrey like the brother he never had. They met during King Amalric's Egyptian wars, shortly after Godfrey first arrived in the Holy Land, and became fast friends while being cut off from the rest of the Frankish forces during a skirmish. Whether at court or in war, the Baron of Ibelin and the Count of Tripoli have fought side by side ever since; so, naturally, when he received word of Godfrey's death, Tiberias was devastated. Being the older and somewhat frailer one of the two, he'd always thought he would be the first of them to go. Without Godfrey's idealism, he fears the walls of Jerusalem will not stand ere long; he knows that his own more pragmatic nature and waning faith will hardly be able to keep them from crumbling, in the end.

What can be said for Tiberias, hence, is that he has few friends but generally good ones. Though he can come across as rather aloof and even dour, he does care deeply about the ones he holds dear and will help wherever he can. He is not the sort of man to give grand declarations about how much someone means to him or some such, but when Tiberias shows a person his teasing, humourous side beyond his usual tired sarcasm, this usually indicates that he likes them very well.

ൠ Random headcanon

One of Tiberias' chief insecurities is his crippled right leg - not so much out of vanity but because it makes him a less capable fighter. Even in his prime, his swordsmanship was never on par with Godfrey's, which, back then, didn't irk him much as it was still decent. But ever since he suffered a nasty fall from his horse in battle some seven years ago and broke his leg, with the bone not setting properly afterwards, Tiberias has been ashamed of his lack of skill with the sword. The bad leg does not only render him slower than he'd like, but also impacts his balance and makes him prone to stumbling. Not that he won't fight tooth and claw in battle - but the leg injury shows him more than anything that he is no lively young buck anymore, which is especially sobering since he likes to believe he has kept himself quite well, otherwise.

As he enjoys taking his horses out for rides or participating in hunts, Tiberias is glad he didn't lose the leg and is still able to spend a long time in the saddle without any major discomfort. Even though most days, the limp tends to look worse than it is, the old injury aches more than usual in the winter months when even Jerusalem turns into a cold and rainy place. During those times, Tiberias often becomes a little grouchier than normal, for he is not a man accustomed to having to take it slow for a few days. And seeing the younger knights practice with each other in the training yards of the palace with all the ladies watching, knowing full well he cannot hold a candle to them anymore, does not exactly help.

☠ Angry / Violent

Though he has a reputation for being impatient and somewhat ill-tempered, it takes a while to rile Tiberias up. As he is seldom in good spirits, the signs of true anger tend to be difficult to spot, at first, beneath his usual gruff tone of voice and the bitterness that creeps into his face all-too-often these days. Things begin to get critical, however, once you see a muscle twitch in his jaw and notice a sudden tautness about his shoulders. In that case, it is either high time to try and smoothe the waters, or to brace yourself for the scolding you are about to receive.

Tiberias makes for a rather intimidating sight when he is angry. Since he generally has the advantage of height, people often feel threatened by his towering over them; and being shouted and / or growled at by a scarred, sinewy man with a gravelly voice who looks like he could - and would - kill you if provoked, has led many a squire and nobleman to rapidly regret their choices in life.

But, as most of his closer acquaintances will tell you, Tiberias is firmly one of those old war dogs whose bark is worse than their bite. Shouting at someone, and perhaps grabbing them by the shoulders for emphasis, is about as violent as he gets. While he will do what is necessary depending on the situation, the Count of Tripoli is not the sort of knight to revel in brutality or the suffering of others at his hands. Particularly if it was an innocent person he snapped at, a friend, or someone else he is close to, he will most likely feel guilty afterwards and attempt - if somewhat awkwardly - to apologise. He has done a number of things in life that he is decidedly not proud of, weighing heavy on his conscience.

♡ Romance

If you were to ask him, Tiberias would probably answer that he is done with love. It has never been a prime concern for him - could not be, really, on account of all his years spent in Saracen captivity and as regent for Baldwin IV. And although he has had the odd entanglement here and there (aside from his rather cold marriage bed), it has rarely been anything particularly meaningful or long-lasting. Nowadays, he likes to tell himself that he's too old, too worn, too tired to play the coy games of courtly love only to eventually be disappointed; he asks himself if it would really be worth the effort to try again with someone, or if he wouldn't just end up making a fool of himself. But once he found someone worth pursuing, he'd soon discover that there is life in the old dog yet.

When it comes to romance, Tiberias is much like a dried-up well: one would have to dig deep to draw water again. The way I see it, he is definitely a slow-burn guy who enjoys the chase as much as the pounce. For all that he is not the sort to write someone poetry or bring them flowers, he still is more of a traditionalist in these matters and would likely want - or at least expect - to be the one to make the first move. Which might take a while to happen, as it would be important to him to get to know that person well before deciding they might well be worth the shame of being rejected. That said, Tiberias would probably fall for someone younger - not because of "young and beautiful" but because he'd want someone who is not as jaded and weary as he is, someone who would make him see the good in the world again. He'd enjoy being surprised by them and showing them new things; while he might be a bit overprotective and paternalistic at times, he'd nonetheless be willing to learn and try his best to make his partner feel both at ease and on footing equal to himself.

Also, if he had a lover, Tiberias would be touching them constantly. Not in a creepy way, but ... you know, a hand at their elbow or between their shoulder blades when they enter a room together. An arm loosely draped around their waist. Kisses to the top of their head, when they're alone. Having them sit in his lap. Since he has spent quite a few lonely years in his life, he'd likely appreciate the physical reassurance that there is someone by his side now who won't go away anytime soon; and, not being the type to say 'I love you' fifteen times a day, these little touches would probably his way of telling them how happy he is they're with him. So, if you are looking for a wry, clever knight to brush a prickly kiss to the back of your hand or gently stroke your hair, Tiberias is your man. (And would, of course, be overjoyed if his affections were returned.) He reserves the naughty stuff for a more intimate setting.

In a word: Yes, the old boy is cuddly, lol. And possibly a tad possessive.

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[jeannepompadour]

Marriage of Bohemond I, Prince of Antioch, and Constance, daughter of King Philip I of France, circa 1106, artwoek from late 15th century by the Master of the Flemish Boethius

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Callout posts against Christian libertarians using the Paulinian doctrine on authorities

Callout posts against heretics

Posts that seem to have bien made by 13th century mystics

Posts that seem to have bien made by early Church Fathers

Memes that would have been shared by Bohemond of Antioch circa 1100

This great sentence about the Eucharist

And finally these wonderful tags

[ltalaynareor]

Petites Histoires du Monde

Listes des personnes et des OC pour l'instant :

- Baudouin IV de Jérusalem (5 histoires). (Plus à venir. )

Il est souvent associé à Alix de Tripoli, personnage fictif qui est la fille unique de Raymond III de Tripoli et qui a grandi à Jérusalem. Alix est douce, gentille, mais aussi intrépide et courageuse. Baudouin et Alix s'aiment infiniment, mais ils savent tous les deux que leur amour est impossible.

Mini-série : Guérison. Baudouin est guéri de la lèpre et décide quoi faire de sa vie. (À venir)

- Édouard Ier d'Angleterre (3 histoires) (Plus à venir. )

Il est souvent associé à sa femme Éléonore de Castille. Leur amour est inspirant et unique. Un OC peut apparaître également sous la forme d'Aliénor de Mercoeur, qui est la dame de compagnie et meilleure amie de la reine d'Angleterre.

Mini-série : Seconde Guerre des Barons avec le point de vue d'Henry III, Éléonore de Provence, Éléonore de Castille, Richard de Cornouailles et lord Édouard sur la bataille de Lewes de 1264. (Publié)

- Bohémond de Tarente (3 histoires) (Plus à venir. )

Bohémond est souvent associé à Alix de Sicile, une OC fictive qui est son épouse. Ils mettent du temps à se cerner l'un l'autre, mais après avoir découvert que sa femme n'est pas qu'une jolie chose à son bras, il est son plus fervent admirateur.

Mini-série : Chefs de la première croisade avec Godefroy de Bouillon, Baudouin de Boulogne, Hugues de Vermandois, Raymond de Saint-Gilles, Etienne de Blois, Robert de Flandres, Robert de Normandie, Adhémar de Monteil, Tancrède de Hauteville et bien sûr Bohémond. (En cours)

Personnages sans lien avec Bohémond de Tarente, Édouard Ier et Baudouin IV ou une mini-série.

- Louis IX de France, Saint-Louis (1 histoire)

- Édouard II d'Angleterre (À venir)

- Alphonse de Poitiers et sa femme Jeanne de Toulouse (À venir)

- Sybille de Jerusalem et Guy de Lusignan (À venir)

- Agnès de Courtenay (À venir)

- Amaury II de Jérusalem ( À venir)

- Aliénor d'Aquitaine ( À venir)

- Henry II d'Angleterre ( À venir)

- Richard cœur de Lion (À venir)

- Jean Sans Terre ( À venir)

Et bien d'autres....

Si vous voulez en voir plus n'hésitez pas à proposer des personnes ou des événements.

[caesarsaladinn]

the crusades were bad but you gotta admit that Bohemond I of Antioch was a magnificent bastard if there ever was one

[catofadifferentcolor]

Now That's What I Call Plot Bunnies: A Top 10 List

Sometimes I have ideas for fic that will not let me rest until I've written them down for the world to see. I was going to wait until I hit 100 buns, but RL has been sapping my muse lately... so I figured 90 was enough for me to post my list of top ten favorite plot bunnies.

In no particular alphabetical order, my favorite plot bunnies are:

Of Aerandír and his Coming to Arda: PJO/LotR crossover, in which Percy’s presence in Middle-Earth changes everything and nothing

Dyanna the Defiant: In which f!Jon Snow takes after her most famous foremothers, runs away to Essos, and insults Viserys III into being a better person

Fake It Til You Make It: In which Aemond and Lucerys travel through time to save their families, fake a relationship, and reluctantly fall in love

Forget-Me-Not: In which an amnesiac Inquisitor Trevelyan discovers he is really Domitian Parthalan, Corpheyus’ former second in command, and gradually comes to terms with his villainous past

From Lothering with Love: In which a case of mistaken identity makes Edmund Hawke the Champion of Kirkwall and the Hero of Fereldan and the Herald of Andraste

Hauteville!Nicky: In which Nicolò di Genova begins life as the bastard son of Prince Bohemond I of Antioch

The Last Quest: PJO/Accidental Warlord crossover, in which Percy’s unwilling vacation at Karen Morhen turns out to be the mental health break he needed

The Master and The Padawan: In which Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn time travel after their deaths, raise a lot of eyebrows, and save the galaxy

Rowena the Red Queen: In which female Jon Snow forms a marriage of convenience with Tyrion Lannister

Queen of the Skies: f!Jon Snow becomes the fourth Lady Arryn, the regent of a great house, and mother of dragons

I love these plot bunnies for a variety of reason - for instance, the Hauteville!Nicky fic feeds into my need to research everything that can possibly be researched on the thinnest pretext possible, which means I've a very detailed itinerary of TOG's travels for the last thousand years and their historical contexts, but very little plot - while I utterly adore my PJO/LotR crossover because by all logic it shouldn't work but I somehow managed to shoehorn it into the mythology of both worlds.

Anyway, these are just some buns I thought deserved more love, and feel free to adopt as always. Just link back if you ever decide to do anything with them.

[the-archlich]

I just recently finished this piece and despite some minor complaints I raised before, it's an excellent one. Published in 1917, Yewdale's biography of Bohemond was the first of its kind, and few subsequent biographies have been able to add much of substance that isn't already found here.

I think Yewdale's biography is a great introduction to the historical figure of Bohemond. It provides all the necessary context to understand the events of his life, without getting distracted by those events that were not directly relevant in the subject's life. I really appreciate Yewdale's clean and concise way of providing exactly enough information and no more. He never belabors a point. I think this is definitely something you could read with no prior knowledge and still understand.

As an enumeration of the facts, I think Yewdale's work is safe from all meaningful criticism. I know of on case where Yewdale speaks in error, and where sources contradict each other he handles the conflict well.

Yewdale has a sense of narrative that can elude many biographers. He understands that a man's life is a story and he sees the best way to tell Bohemond's. The text is broken up in logical ways, based on the distinct phases of Bohemond's life and activities. One decision leads logically to the next.

The only real criticism I have, as I've mentioned before, Is that I think Yewdale draws some very strange conclusions about others in Bohemond's life. His assessments of Tancred, Raymond of Saint-Gilles, and Alexios Komnenos are not at all how I would judge them. Perhaps Yewdale and I simply have an opinion on this, perhaps more recent scholarship has given me some information not available to him. This was, after all, written while al-Qalanisi's work was still lost, and I don't know what else has emerged since then. Of course, sometimes opinions just differ.

That quibble notwithstanding, it's an excellent biography. It covers all of the salient points of the subject's, digging into details when it's valuable to do so and leaving matters vague when specifics only obscure the truth. Yewdale juggles contrasting and contradictory sources well, and explains his reasoning clearly when he chooses one over another. It's a well-told tale of a very fascinating man, and it gives the reader an excellent understanding of who he was, what he did, and why. It destroys a number of misconceptions that have entered the common consciousness, presenting a much different picture of certain key events.

Yewdale writes about Bohemond in the same way his contemporaries did. He admires the subject of his biography and has endless praise for his intelligence, ambition, energy, and martial might. These are the qualities that made Bohemond the greatest legend of his generation, and they're still impressive today. But Yewdale also never forgets the nature of the man he's dealing with. His admiration for Bohemond's talents do not blind him to his greed, viciousness, obsession, and faithlessness. He knows that he's writing about a bad man, but can't help admiring him anyway.

Such is the legacy of Bohemond, Prince of Antioch.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.9

474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. 1098 – The army of the First Crusade under the leadership of Bohemond of Taranto wins a battle against Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch. 1539 – The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee. 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake. 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. 1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. 1778 – Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp. 1822 – Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola. 1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election. 1849 – The new Roman Republic is declared. 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama 1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau. 1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency. 1893 – Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan. 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established. 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes. 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). 1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. 1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized. 1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1929 – Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities. 1932 – Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law. 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey. 1941 – World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate. 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. 1943 – World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. 1945 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. 1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway. 1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. 1951 – Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea. 1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR. 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States. 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission. 1971 – The 6.5–6.7 Mw  Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000. 1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame. 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. 1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. 1976 – Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24. 1978 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1982 – Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board. 1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union. 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people. 1996 – Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al. 2001 – The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor. 2016 – Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured. 2018 – Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea. 2020 – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis. 2021 – Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began.[26]

[gardenofkore]

The Normans had a complicated past in the Latin East. As early as the First Crusade, there was an opportunity for the Hautevilles to exert significant authority in the region, one that quickly ended when Roger’s cousin, Bohemond, was captured by Turks as he made his way to Melitene in August of 1100. Bohemond’s imprisonment enabled Baldwin I to claim the throne of Jerusalem uncontested. Had the journey gone differently, it might have been Roger’s first cousin who became king and established a dynasty. But whatever lost opportunity Bohemond’s capture may have represented, it paled in comparison to the one that evaded Roger a little more than a decade later. His mother Adelasia, had been his regent since 1101, the year Roger I died, and by 1112 Roger had begun to rule in his own right. This offered Adelasia an opportunity to accept a marriage proposal from King Baldwin I of Jerusalem. According to William of Tyre, the marriage contract stipulated that if Baldwin and Adelasia had no child of their own, Roger would succeed to the throne when Baldwin died. This arrangement was of particular interest to Roger, and given that Adelasia was in her late thirties and that Baldwin himself was in his late forties or early fifties and — as far as we can tell — had not yet produced any children, it is not difficult to understand why. Unfortunately for Adelasia (and Roger), Baldwin ultimately confessed that their union was bigamous as his marriage to his second wife had not been properly annulled. Susan Edgington notes that the union may have been dissolved partly as a result of pressure from Rome. In addition, though, Baldwin became very ill in 1117, so sick that some wondered if he would die and the kingdom would soon pass to Roger. Some members of the nobility became alarmed at the prospect, and Arnulf oversaw the annulment of the marriage during Easter of the same year. Adelasia was sent home to Sicily soon after, but not before Baldwin had alienated many of the resources she had brought with her from Sicily. She died just a year later, on April 16 — just nine days after Baldwin. For centuries, historians have used her humiliation to explain why Roger was not invested in the Latin East:

Qua redeunte ad propria turbatus est supra modum filius et apud se odium concepit adversus regnum et eius habitatores immortale. Nam cum reliqui fideles diversi orbis principes aut in propriis personis aut inmensis liberalitatibus regnum nostrum quasi plantam recentem promovere et ampliare sategerint, hic et eius heredes usque in presentem diem nec etiam verbo amico nos sibi conciliaverunt, cum tamen quovis alio principe longe commodius faciliusque nostris necessitatibus consilia possent et auxilia ministrare. Videntur ergo iniurie perpetuo memores et delictum persone iniuste in populum refundunt universum.

Dawn Marie Hayes, Roger II of Sicily. Family, Faith, and Empire in the Medieval Mediterranean World, p. 65-66

For more than three years following the wedding there is no information about the royal couple’s conjugal relationship, or Adelaide’s activities, or even her whereabouts. Baldwin seems to have been constantly on the move, fighting for Antioch in the north or against the Ascalonites in the south or exploring into Transjordan and the Sinai desert. However, the validity of the marriage was apparently unchallenged until 1116 when two events coincided. The more important was probably Arnulf’s trip to Rome to argue for his reinstatement as patriarch of Jerusalem. He was successful, but, seemingly, his restoration was conditional on persuading the king to put away his wife. The grounds existed, for although Baldwin had separated from his Armenian wife at some time in the previous decade, there was no annulment of his second marriage and so he was not free to remarry. The following winter, the king fell critically ill and feared he was on the point of death. There was a very real possibility that Baldwin would die without children and the kingdom would pass to a Sicilian heir. Some of the nobility baulked at this, and Arnulf presided over the formal annulment at Easter 1117, incurring the enmity of Sicily to the great detriment of the kingdom, as William of Tyre and modern commentators have agreed. The Sicilian alliance was therefore short-lived and ultimately injurious to the kingdom of Jerusalem. It is redundant to speculate whether the outcome would have been different if Baldwin and Adelaide had produced a child. The alliance failed, and Baldwin’s deteriorating health brought the matter of the succession to the fore. [...]

In 1116, with some 200 knights, Baldwin headed east again, revisiting Montréal, and then south through the desert to the Red Sea. This expedition is thought to have founded a castle in the valley of Moses (Wadi Mūsa) and another at a town on the coast Fulcher called ‘Helim’ (modern Aqaba, Jordan) that they had found abandoned by its inhabitants. On his return to Jerusalem towards the end of 1116, the king became seriously – he feared terminally – ill. Fulcher wrote that this was the reason Baldwin repudiated his Sicilian wife; William expanded Fulcher’s simple statement of fact to involve Baldwin’s seeking the advice of the clergy and trying to explain himself to Adelaide, who was not appeased. William, of course, could see the longer-term consequences of the failure of the Sicilian alliance. Albert of Aachen’s independent account of the same expedition and its aftermath added some interesting details. He did not, apparently, know about the deserted town Helim, but wrote only that the king and his men bathed in the Red Sea when they reached it, as relief from the intense heat, and ate fish. While there, Baldwin heard about St Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai desert, and he was keen to visit it for prayer and conversation, but the monks sent messengers to dissuade him because they did not want to draw attention to the monastery lest they be expelled from it by the Saracens. Although this tale is uncorroborated, it rings true, for St Catherine’s is a Greek Orthodox foundation and has maintained its presence until today partly because of a willingness to accommodate politicalrealities.Baldwin abandoned his plan to visit the monastery and returned to Jerusalem via Hebron, pausing only to raid the plains of Ascalon for camels, cattle, sheep and goats on his way. Albert gave the date of the onset of Baldwin’s serious illness as the beginning of March 1117, technically still winter but later than Fulcher implied, and Albert wrote that the king was in Acre. Baldwin genuinely believed he was on his deathbed, for he ordered that his worldly wealth was to be distributed: part went to the poor, along with a dole of food and wine; part to his household; and part to his soldiers, both his own and those serving for pay. However, Albert claimed that the king made a full recovery. He did not report whether thegifts were revoked but did write that the Egyptian fleets that had put in at Tyre when the Saracens heard of the king’s illness now sailed home without attacking. Another discrepancy from Fulcher’s undoubtedly better informed account is that Albert placed Arnulf’s visit to Rome to exculpate himself after the king’s recovery from his sickness. It was Arnulf who then insisted, on the pope’s orders, that Baldwin repudiate his wife because his marriage to Adelaide was adulterous and unlawful. Arnulf added a charge of consanguinity between Baldwin and Adelaide, although this had passed unremarked in 1113, and he formalised the process of annulment by convoking a council in the church of the Holy Cross in Acre. ‘Sad and grieving, released by synodal law from the marriage bond, the lady sailed back to Sicily’, while Baldwin, Albert claimed, exercised ‘wonderful abstinence and chastity’ from then onward. Thus, although the two writers differed on theexact sequence of events, they agreed that the king’s illness was a precipitating factor in his repudiation of Adelaide. Certainly, he may have felt the prick of conscience and wanted to die absolved of his sins. Nevertheless, it is probable that there was also considerable pressure from his vassals and the senior clergy: the marriage to Adelaide had not provided the king with an heir, and according to the terms of the agreement Roger of Sicily would inherit the kingdom of Jerusalem if the king were to die while the marriage endured. The reminder of the king’s mortality made the matter of the succession urgent, and it is inconceivable that the matter was dropped as soon as the king made a recovery. In the short term, Baldwin appeared to regain full health, and with his accustomed energy he was mindful that two coastal cities remained unconquered. First he built a castle called ‘Scandalion’ within five miles of Tyre and garrisoned it ‘to confine the city’. He then embarked on a major expedition early in 1118 aimed, so Albert said, at conquering Egypt and thus removing its support for Ascalon that threatened pilgrims going to and from Jerusalem. [...]

The accounts of Guibert and William, the one separated by distance and the other by time from the scandal, share certain features, most importantly the legitimacy of Baldwin’s marriage to Arda so that the separation a thoro was not an annulment, which was the only way Baldwin would be free to take a third wife. Yet Baldwin did not seek dissolution of the marriage from the pope. Admittedly, it would be difficult because the usual convenient ground, consanguinity, was not available. Nevertheless, the curia was likely to be sympathetic, especially if adultery could be proven. (Notably, non-consummation does not seem to have been considered, at least before Mayer.) In this interpretation of Guibert’s tale and as made explicit by William, the motif of chasing the unpaid dowry in Constantinoplerecurs. It seems likely that failure to lay his hands on Arda’s dowry in full was the real reason behind Baldwin’s repudiation of his wife. Importantly, by consigning his wife to a nunnery, Baldwin was abandoning hope of engendering an heir. For somewhere between five and ten years he lived, apparently, a celibate life.

Baldwin’s bigamous marriage to Adelaide of Sicily appears ill advised on almost every level. It is easy to interpret it as a last desperate attempt to make a political alliance that would bring wealth and other resources for the defence of the kingdom. In the short term, it was successful in this: the resources Adelaide brought with her to Jerusalem were described towards the end of the previous chapter, along with Baldwin’s rejection of her four years later. There is no information about how much time the royal couple spent together. On this and the whole subject of Baldwin’s third marriage the testimony of William of Malmesbury is interesting, although – or because – it differs so radically from William of Tyre’s. First, while conceding that the match was to make good Baldwin’s losses, he wrote explicitly that it was ‘for legitimate marriage’ (ad legitimum conubium). William agreed with the other chroniclers about the great riches Adelaide brought with her ‘to the king’s bedroom’, but added rather sourly ‘where the woman had amassed such infinite piles of precious goods from might seem a matter of wonder to anyone’. Baldwin ‘admitted her to his marriage bed’ (illam thoro recepit) but dismissed her soon afterwards. The reason for this, ‘they said’ (aiunt), was that Last years and legacy she was afflicted by an incurable illness and a cancer had consumed her genitals. From this William concluded: ‘One thing is certain, the king was without offspring; it was no wonder if a man for whom to be at leisure was to become unwell shrank from wifely embraces and spent his whole life in battles.’ The inescapable ambiguity is whether Baldwin dreaded all wifely embraces, or only Adelaide’s, as appears to be the implication. However that may be, and even if the story of the cancer, which William reported as hearsay, is completely untrue, William may have encapsulated a truth: throughout his reign Baldwin’s energies were absorbed by constant military campaigns, and in his last years he may have been suffering increasingly from illness whenever a pause from them allowed.

Susan B. Edgington, Baldwin I of Jerusalem, 1100-1118, p. 167; 174-175; 184-185