Raymond of Poitiers happened to be in England when the barons of Antioch, advised by Fulk of Jerusalem, decided to summon him as a wife for the heiress of Antioch, Constance. This secret duty was entrusted to the Hospitaller Gerard Jebarre, who was given letters from the patriarch Bernard and prominent nobles. There were two persons who had to be deceived by the element of secrecy: Alice, Constance's mother, who still hoped to convey the princely title by her own hand in marriage, and Roger II of Sicily, a blood relative of Bohemond's