Tancred
Tancred or Tankred is a masculine given name of 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) and especially associated with the Hauteville family in Italy.[1] It is rare today as a first name, but still common as a Norman surname: Tanqueray, Tanquerey, Tanqueret. Its Italian form is Tancredi and in Latin it is Tancredus. Its Italian patronymic is also Tancredi. Famous historical persons with the name include:
People with the given name
- Tancred of Hauteville, founder of the Hauteville family
- Tancred, Prince of Galilee, a leader of the First Crusade
- Tancred, Prince of Bari, son of Roger II of Sicily, and Prince of Taranto from 1132 to 1138
- Tancred, Count of Syracuse
- Tancred of Sicily, King of Sicily in the late 12th century
- Tancred of Conversano, count of Brindisi
- Tancred Tancredi, Dominican friar
- Tancred of Bologna, Dominican canonist
- Tancred Ibsen, Norwegian officer, pilot, film director and screenwriter
- Tancred, Torthred, and Tova, three 9th-century Anglo-Saxon siblings who were saints, hermits and martyrs
- Tancred "Tanc" Sade, Australian actor
Fictional characters
- Tancred of Salerno, character in Boccaccio's Decameron (mid-14th century)
- Tancred, a character in the Italian epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata (1581) by Torquato Tasso. He is beloved by Clorinda and Erminia, and often shown in art with one of them
- Tancred, Lord Montacute, title character of Benjamin Disraeli's novel Tancred (1847)
- Tancred Torsson, a character in Jenny Nimmo's Children of the Red King series
- Tancred, a character in the computer game Diablo 2
- Tancred, a character in Summoner, known as the "King of Fleas"
- Sir Tancred Beauleigh, the father of the title character in Edgar Jepson's Tinker stories
- Tancredi, nephew of the Prince of Salina, the protagonist, in Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel "Il gattopardo" (The Leopard) and in Visconti's film of the same name.
- Tandredi Recchi, the family patriarch in the Luca Guadagnino 2009 film I Am Love.
See also
- Tancrède (disambiguation)
- Tancredi (disambiguation)
- Tancredo (disambiguation)
References
- Alfonso Burgio, Dizionario dei nomi propri di persona (Rome: Hermes Edizioni, 1992), p. 327.
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