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and Teutonic Knights. In 1217 Frederick II Hohenstaufen granted the Teutonic
Knights the same status as the Templars and Hospitallers in the Kingdom of Sicily.
In 1220 Pope Honorius III gave privileges to the Teutonic Knights; as an order,
they now were on the same level as the Templars and the Hospitallers. In 1226 the
"Golden Bull of Rimini" from Frederick II for the Teutonic Knights giving them
wide-ranging authority in the name of the empire in Prussia. In 1319 the Teutonic
Knights' headquarters moved from Venice to Prussia. In 1410 Lithuanian-Polish
forces defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Tannenberg, Prussia, halting
the Teutonic Knights’ eastward expansion along the Baltic and hastening their
decline.
The Hospitallers later retreated from Islamic forces to Cyprus, Rhodes, various
Italian towns, In 1530 Pope Clement VII (1478-1534) granted them perpetual fief of
the Island of Malta for annual rent of a falcon. The Knights of Malta eventually
surrendered to Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) in 1798 and disbanded.
The Hautville (Altavilla) Dynasty – Founder of Antioch
Bohemond I of Antioch was one of the most fascinating
and controversial figures of the First Crusade. He was
originally the prince of Otranto, but in the wake of the
conquest of Antioch during the First Crusade he took
control of the city and became known as Bohemond of
Antioch.
Bohemond I, also spelled Bohemund or Boamund,
(c. 1058 – 3 March 1111), Prince of Taranto Prince of
Antioch, was one of the leaders of the First Crusade as he
led the whole Crusader army until the conquest
of Antioch.
Bohemond was born in San Marco Argentano, Calabria,
as the eldest son of the Norman Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, and
his first wife Alberada of Buonalbergo. He was christened "Mark" at his baptism,
but was nicknamed Bohemond (after the legendary giant Buamundus gigas), by
his father due to his size as an infant.
The Norman monarchy he found in Antioch survived those in both England and
Sicily.
Son of Robert who, encouraged by his dad, developed seriously wider geographic
ambitions than Puglia, and had a go early on at subduing Greece on his way to
doing the same to Constantinople. However this failed and it was to be the 90s
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