Editing Tancred

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'''Tancred''' or '''Tankred''' is a [[masculine]] [[given name]] of [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] origin that comes from ''thank-'' (thought) and ''-rath'' (counsel), meaning "well-thought advice". It was used in the [[High Middle Ages]] mainly by the [[Normans]] (see French [[Tancrède (disambiguation)|Tancrède]]) and especially associated with the [[House of Hauteville]] after the [[Norman conquest of southern Italy]].<ref>Alfonso Burgio, ''Dizionario dei nomi propri di persona'' (Rome: Hermes Edizioni, 1992), p. 327.</ref> It is rare today as a first name, but still common as a Norman surname: ''Tanqueray'', ''Tanquerey'', ''Tanqueret''. Its [[Italian language|Italian]] form is '''Tancredi''' and in [[Latin]] it is '''Tancredus'''. Its Italian [[patronymic]] is also '''Tancredi'''. 

== People with the given name ==
In chronological order:
*[[Tancred, Torthred, and Tova]] (died 869 or 870), Anglo-Saxon siblings who were saints, hermits, and martyrs
*[[Tancred of Hauteville]] (c. 980–1041), minor Norman lord, founder of the Hauteville family
*[[Tancred, Prince of Galilee]] (1075–1112), a leader of the First Crusade
*[[Tancred, Count of Syracuse]] ({{fl.|1104}})
*[[Tancred of Conversano]], Count of Brindisi; banished 1133
*[[Tancred, Prince of Bari]] (c. 1119–between 1138 and 1140), son of Roger II of Sicily, and Prince of Taranto from 1132 to 1138
*[[Tancred of Sicily]] (1138–1194), King of Sicily
*[[Tancred Tancredi]] (1185–1241), also called Trancred of Siena, Dominican friar
*[[Tancred of Bologna]] (c. 1185–1230/1236), Dominican canonist
*[[Tancred Robinson]] (c.1658–1748), English physician
*[[Tancrède Auguste]] (1856–1913), 20th [[President of Haiti]] from August 8, 1912 until he died in office on May 2, 1913
*[[Tancred Ibsen]] (1893–1978), Norwegian officer, pilot, film director, and screenwriter
*[[Tankred Dorst]] (1925–2017), German writer

== Fictional characters ==
*Tancred of Salerno, in Boccaccio's ''[[Decameron]]'' novella collection
*Tancred, in the Italian epic poem ''[[Jerusalem_Delivered#Plot_summary|La Gerusalemme liberata]]'' (1581) by Torquato Tasso
*Tancred, in the 1591 English play ''[[Tancred and Gismund]]''
*Tancred, Lord Montacute, title character of [[Benjamin Disraeli]]'s 1847 novel ''[[Tancred (novel)|Tancred]]''
*Tancred Torsson, in Jenny Nimmo's ''[[Children of the Red King]]'' series
*Tancred, in the computer game ''[[Diablo 2]]''
*Tancred, in the video game ''[[Summoner (video game)|Summoner]]'', known as the "King of Fleas"
*Sir Tancred Beauleigh, the father of the title character in [[Edgar Jepson]]'s Tinker stories
*Tandredi Recchi, the family patriarch in the [[Luca Guadagnino]] 2009 film ''[[I Am Love (film)|I Am Love]]''
*Father Tancred, a minor character in the 2010 film ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)|Robin Hood]]''
*Tancred Cappelen-Jensen, in [[André Bjerke|Bernhard Borge's]] novel "Døde menn går i land"
*Sara Tancredi, one of the protagonists in the American crime drama television show ''[[Prison Break]]''

== Band ==
* [[Tancred (band)|Tancred]], American rock band

== See also ==
* [[Tancrède (disambiguation)]]
* [[Tancredi (disambiguation)]]
* [[Tancredo (disambiguation)]]

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