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Tancred de Hautville Palamara
- Preferred Name: Tancred de Hautville Palamara[1]
- Gender: M
- FSID: 9C43-ZXM
- Birth: 1194 in Palermo, Sicilia, Italy at LATI: N7.8 LONG: E3.58
- Death: 1232 in Executed By Friedrich Ii,Holy Roman Emperor,Messina,Sicily at LATI: N5.8888 LONG: E0.3032
Preferred Parents:
Father: Tancred King of Sicily, b. 1138 in Palermo, Sicilia, Italy d. 20 FEB 1194 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Mother: Sibylla of Acerra , b. 1153 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy d. 1205 in Francia
Family 1: Sybelle De Acerra, b. 1190 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy d. 1275
- Aaron FitzRoger I, b. 1221 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy d. 1300 in Somerset, England
Family 2: Catherine Verch Owain, b. 1175 in Aberffraw, Isle of Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom
- Aaron FitzRoger I, b. 1221 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy d. 1300 in Somerset, England
Sources:
- Title: Sir Tancred de Hautville Medieval Knight
Author: War History Online 7 Famous Medieval Knights, Warriors, Leaders and Scholars
Publication: Name: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/7-famous-knightsmiddleages-x.html;
Note: Tancred of Hauteville (1075-1112)
Statue_cathédrale_Coutances_Hauteville_2 (Medium)
Possible statue of Tancred of Hauteville on the north side of Coutances Cathedral. This is an 1875 replacement for a statue damaged in the French Revolution. By Giogo – CC BY-SA 3.0
A Norman lord from southern Italy, Tancred joined the First Crusade alongside his uncle Bohemond of Taranto. The First Crusade was the closest the crusaders ever came to taking the Holy Land, and Tancred was one of its leading lights. His courage, his leadership, and his political skill allowed him to carve out lands for himself in the conquered territory, becoming the first Prince of Galilee and regent of Antioch. Over the next decade, he reinforced his position, while his reputation as a knight spread across Europe and down the ages. He died of typhoid, but his legend lived on through Radulph of Caen’s
The First Crusade was the closest the crusaders ever came to taking the Holy Land, and Tancred was one of its leading lights. His courage, his leadership, and his political skill allowed him to carve out lands for himself in the conquered territory, becoming the first Prince of Galilee and regent of Antioch.
Page: Tancred of Hauteville (1075-1112) joined the First Crusade alongside Bohemond of Taranto.
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