[172] What the relationship exactly was I have not been able to discover. Mills does not satisfy me that the mother of Tancred was the sister of Robert Guiscard. The expressions of Ralph of Caen on the subject appear to be obscure.
[173] Albert of Aix.
[174] St. Palaye.
[175] Mills, chap. 3.
[176] Fulcher.
[177] Raoul de Caen.
[178] William of Tyre.
[179] Raoul de Caen; William of Tyre; Albert of Aix; Guibert.
[180] Orderic. Vital. lib. ix.
[181] Boemond had inherited all his father’s hatred to the Greek sovereigns, and had waged many a bloody and successful war against Alexius himself.