This man's army scaled a city's walls with a rope ladder from the Armenian turncoat Firouz, and held it against Kerbogha by charging behind Peter Bartholomew's Holy Lance.
By one account, this man accepted, then rejected, then 3nally accepted a gi7t of a room full of treasure a7ter exclaiming "If such riches were mine, long ago I would have been lord of many lands!" According to legend, he hid in a co53n with a dead chicken to escape to Europe and raise an army, whose defeat forced him to agree to the Treaty of Devol. Named a7ter a legendary giant, this likely patron of the Gesta Francorum destroyed the Varangian Guard for his father at the Battle of Dyrrachium (dee-RAHK-ee-um). This man's army scaled a city's walls with a rope ladder from the Armenian turncoat Firouz, and held it against Kerbogha by charging behind Peter Bartholomew's Holy Lance. The last three books of the Alexiad focus on the threat posed by this commander, who took up Urban II's call at Clermont as an opportunity to lop o5f parts of the Byzantine Empire. For 10 points, name this son of Robert Guiscard, a wily Norman mercenary who le7t the First Crusade to build the Principality of Antioch.
By one account, this man accepted, then rejected, then 3nally accepted a gi7t of a room full of treasure a7ter exclaiming "If such riches were mine, long ago I would have been lord of many lands!"
Bohemond of Taranto [or Bohemond of Otranto; or Bohemond I of Antioch]