- Cecile of France
Cecile of France (1097–after 1145) was a daughter of
Philip I of France andBertrade of Montfort . The "Historia Regum Francorum Monasterii Sancti Dionysii" names "Philippum et Florum et filiam unam" as children of "Philippus rex [et] Fulconi Rechin Andagavorum comiti uxorem", specifying that the (unnamed) daughter married "Tanchredus Anthiochenus". Her parentage is recorded byWilliam of Tyre , who also records her two marriages.Her first marriage was arranged while
Bohemond I of Antioch was visiting the French court seeking support againstAlexios I Komnenos . She sailed for Antioch at the end of 1106 and became Lady ofTarsus and Mamistra, in Cilician Armenia. Cecile married firstly (late 1106)Tancred, Prince of Galilee , Regent of Antioch, who succeeded in 1111 as Prince of Antioch.While dying in 1112, Prince Tancred made
Pons of Tripoli , son of Bertrand of Toulouse, promise to marry her, and Tancred gave her the fortresses of Arcicanum and Rugia as adowry . They married in 1115. In 1133, Pons was besieged at his castle of Montferrand byZengi , "atabeg " ofMosul , in 1133, and Cecile appealed to her half-brother, KingFulk of Jerusalem , to come to his aid. Zengi abandoned the siege, but during a second siege in 1137, Pons was captured and killed. He was succeeded by his son with Cecile, Raymond II. Cecile died in 1145.Children with Pons
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Raymond II of Tripoli
* Philip (1126-42)
* Agnes (died before Mar 1183), married Renaud II, Lord of Marqab
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