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unusual facts about Tancred, King of Sicily



A/S Aero

During the summer of 1920 A/S Aero successly operated demonstration, advertising, and limited mail flights from the Bestumkilen bay in Oslo, with Tancred Ibsen as the head pilot.

Fernand Auberjonois

His wife was Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat (Paris, 13 November 1913–New York City, 10 May 1986), a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte's sister Caroline and her husband Joachim Murat, King of Naples and King of Sicily, previously married in Cannes, 3 August 1931 and divorced in 1939, to Jean-Paul Frank (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 26 August 1905–Los Angeles, California, 19 .

Henry Tancred

Harry Tancred (Henry Eugene Tancred, 1897–1961), Australian rugby player, racing administrator and meat industry leader

Margaritus of Brindisi

Margaritus and many nobles of the old guard, including Nicholas, Archbishop of Salerno, the son of Matthew of Ajello, and Tancred's widow, Sibylla of Acerra, and brief successor, William III, were present at the Christmas coronation.

Odo the Good Marquis

Robert the Monk, listing the crusaders who accompanied Bohemond, mentions "the most noble princes, namely Tancred, his i.e., Bohemond's nephew and the marquis's son. . ." (nobilissimi principes, Tancredus videlicet nepos suus and marchisi filius), confirming his father's rank but not his name.

Guibert of Nogent, expressing some doubt that he has all his information correct, says that Tancred was the son of a certain marquis, accompanied his uncle Bohemond on the First Crusade, and that his brother William accompanied Hugh the Great (Tancredum marchionis cuiusdam ex Boemundi, nisi fallor, sorore filium; cuius frater cum Hugone magno praecesserat, cui Guillelmus erat vocabulum).

Principality of Antioch

Tancred expanded the borders of the Principality, seizing the cities of Tarsus and Latakia from the Byzantine Empire.

Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet

His oldest son, Metcalfe, survived him by only four days, the baronetcy then passing to his second son, Tancred, who became a Rear Admiral of the White and was twice Lord Mayor of York.

Star Crusader

Though that might of course be named after any of the historical figures called Tancred, and not a reference to this game.

Tancred, King of Sicily

As soon as William II died, in 1189, Tancred rebelled and seized control of the island, and he was crowned King Tancred I of Sicily early in 1190.

At Gravina (June 1192) he reinforced his papal support by surrendering the royal legateship over Sicily.

Tancred, Prince of Galilee

His portrayal is similar although slightly more humorous in Alfred Duggan's novel Count Bohemond.

The Unholy Pilgrim

Tancred is a young Norman knight on pilgrimage to Jerusalem; not for the salvation of his soul, but for the recovery of his honor and his inheritance.

Treaty of Devol

As Thomas Asbridge points out, much of what the Emperor granted to Bohemond (including Aleppo itself) was still in Muslim hands (e.g. neither Bohemond nor Alexios controlled Edessa, although at the time Tancred was regent there as well as in Antioch), which contradicts Lilie's assessment that Bohemond did well out of the Treaty.


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