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Tancred remained the regent of Antioch for Bohemond II until his death in 1112 during a typhoid epidemic. He had married Cecile of France, but died childless. Tancred was buried in the porch of St. Peter, the cathedral of Antioch. [12]
Life and marriages. Tancred was a petty landowner in Normandy. Goffredo Malaterra says that he was a knight of very noble lineage, who inherited the village of Hauteville (probably Hauteville-la-Guichard, north-west of Coutances, in Normandy) from his ancestors. [1][2][3] On the other hand, Anna Komnene, in the Alexiad, describes his son Robert ...
Tancred was the king of Sicily whose brief reign marked the end of the Norman rule there. An illegitimate son of Duke Roger of Apulia and grandson of Roger II, king of Sicily, Tancred joined an insurrection in 1155 against his uncle William I of Sicily and was imprisoned for five years.
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Married: Tancred was married twice to Muriel and Fressenda. Children: Tancred had 12 sons and several daughters. Occupation and Career: Tancred took the Cross in 1096. In 1097 Tancred defeated the Byzantine army which attacked him as he was crossing the Vardar and Tancred became a bitter enemy of the Greeks.
After Richard and Philip left Sicily for the Holy Land, attention soon reverted back to the conflict between Tancred and Constance, who in April 1191 was crowned empress in Rome, as she was now married to Henry VI.
Tancred was a member of the Norman house of Hauteville, which had led the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century, and the nephew of Bohemund, Prince of Taranto and son of Robert Guiscard; he was born to Bohemund's half sister Emma and a Norman noble.
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for his identity; the existence and number of tancred’s siblings, both brothers and sisters, with the consequences for tancred’s rela-tionship to fellow crusaders Roger of salerno and Richard of the Principate; finally, tancred’s marriage to Cecile of France. Thus, the article will examine tancred’s family tree as a case study for an
