That’s true. There was a chance of it getting slightly out of hans. It worked out reasonably well at the end. Bohemund didn’t renege on his oath of fealty to t

That’s true. There was a chance of it getting slightly out of hans. It worked out reasonably well at the end. Bohemund didn’t renege on his oath of fealty to the emperor until a couple of years later after he got Antioch. Then again Byzantines choosing to entirely abandon the Crusader army during the siege of Antioch did cause quite a but of longterm enmity. So it’s possible that could have been avoided. The Normans seem to behave reasonably well in Byzantine territory during the crusade itself, though. Anna herself seems to have been really personally impressed by Bohemund himself as well.