Bohemond VII, Count of Tripoli

Bohemond VII (* 1261, † October 19, 1287 ) was from 1275 to 1287 Titularfürst of Antioch, although his father had the Principality of Antioch already lost 1268. As Bohemond IV, he was also Count of Tripoli.

He was the son of Bohemond VI. of Antioch / Bohemond III. of Tripoli, who died in 1275, and his wife Sibylle of Armenia Minor. As Bohemond VII in 1275 was still a minor, Sibylle acted as regent for him, although the regency was unsuccessfully claimed by Hugh I of Jerusalem, Bohemund's next male relative.

Tripoli was at this time a weak state, whose government was split into several fraction. From 1277 to 1282 Bohemond was at war with the Knights Templar, in 1277 he made ​​peace with Qalawun, the successor of Mamelukensultans Baybars ( who had recently died in the same year ), and Venice, which he delivered from the port charges. In 1282 he defeated the rebellious since 1256 Genoese Lord of Djubail, Guido II Embriaco by stabbing him in its own castle.

Bohemond married in 1278 Margaret of Acre († 1328 ), daughter of Louis of Brienne, Viscount of Beaumont, but remained childless. After his death, his mother Sibylla complaining that the rule itself, but was rejected by the Italian merchants who used their own administration. Bohemond's sister Lucia came a little later in Europe and took over the county.