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and in this they succeeded on 10 November. The rebellion which followed was short-lived, and Gilbert and Bohemond were restored to favor. It has been suspected that Gilbert and Bohemond were in some sort of intimate relationship, although this is and highly suspect. In 1161, in a war with

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, an old enemy of his father, he was driven out of his county. In 1167, he was again driven from his domains by the imperial army of

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led by

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, the

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. In 1168, Bohemond accused Richard, Count of Molise, of conspiracy against the new chancellor

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. A duel was scheduled when Count Robert of Caserta came forward with a second accusation. It was alleged that the Apulian town of

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among others near Troia was unlawfully obtained at the expense of the crown. A jury was assembled and found Richard guilty of illegally retaining the lands after the flight of the chancellor

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. He was dispossessed of all his lands and when he complained to the king was imprisoned. It is likely that the whole trial was engineered by Gilbert of Gravina, a political opponent of Richard's and an ally of Bohemond's. Bohemond left one unnamed daughter who married Peter, who succeeded his father-in-law in the county.

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, 1970. *Matthew, Donald. ''The Norman Kingdom of Sicily''.

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: 1992. *Houben, Hubert. ''Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West''. Trans. G. A. Loud and Diane Milbourne.

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