Alexios I, hearing of Bohemond's capture and…
August 1103 CE
Alexios I, hearing of Bohemond's capture and incensed that Bohemond had broken his sacred oath made in Constantinople and kept Antioch for himself, had offered to redeem the Norman commander and ransom Bohemond for two hundred and sixty thousand dinars, if Ghazi Gumushtakin would hand the prisoner over to the Empire.
When Kilij Arslan I, the Emir’s Seljuq overlord, had heard of the proposed payment, he had demanded half, or threatened to attack.
Bohemond had proposed instead a ransom of one hundred and thirty thousand dinars paid just to the Emir.
The bargain was concluded and Ghazi and Bohemond exchange oaths of friendship.
Ransomed in 1103 by Baldwin of Edessa, he returns in triumph to Antioch in August 1103.
His nephew Tancred, who for three years has taken his uncle's place, had during this time attacked the Empire and added Tarsus, Adana and Massissa in Cilicia, but is now deprived of his lordship by Bohemond's return.
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