Tancred

Tancred may refer to:

  • Tancred (given name)
Tancred of Hauteville
    • Tancred of Hauteville (980-1041), founder of the Hauteville family
    • Tancred, Prince of Galilee (1075-1112), a leader of the First Crusade, and regent of Antioch
    • Tancred, Prince of Bari (1119-1138), son of Roger II of Sicily, and Prince of Taranto from 1132 to 1138
    • Tancred, Count of Syracuse (f. 1104)
    • Tancred of Sicily (1138-1194), King of Sicily in the late twelfth century
  • Tancred of Conversano, twelfth century count of Brindisi
  • Tancred Tancredi (1185-1241), Dominican friar
  • Tancred of Bologna (1185-1236), Dominican canonist
  • Tankrad, abbot of PrĂ¼m Abbey in the ninth century
Fictional characters
  • Tancred of Salerno, character in Boccaccio's Decameron
  • Tancred Torrson, 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"
Works of art
  • Tancredi, an opera by Gioachino Rossini (1813)
  • Tancred (novel), a novel published in 1847 by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Tancred (play), a nineteenth century play by John Augustus Stone
Surname
  • Lawson-Tancred Baronets, title held by ancient Yorkshire family since 1662
Placename
  • Tancred, California, in Yolo County, USA