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Tancred 1078-1112
Norman crusader

He went on the First Crusade (1096-99) with his uncle Bohemond I, and distinguished himself in many sieges. He established the great principality of Galilee (1099), but soon went to Antioch where he ruled as regent. He is the hero of Gerusalemme liberata by Tasso (1593) and was the grandson of Robert Guiscard.

Bibliography: Robert Lawrence Nicholson, Tancred (1940)