<?xml version="1.0"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en">
	<id>https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?action=history&amp;feed=atom&amp;title=Tancred%2C_Prince_of_Galilee</id>
	<title>Tancred, Prince of Galilee - Revision history</title>
	<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?action=history&amp;feed=atom&amp;title=Tancred%2C_Prince_of_Galilee"/>
	<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?title=Tancred,_Prince_of_Galilee&amp;action=history"/>
	<updated>2026-06-04T07:18:01Z</updated>
	<subtitle>Revision history for this page on the wiki</subtitle>
	<generator>MediaWiki 1.44.2</generator>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?title=Tancred,_Prince_of_Galilee&amp;diff=655871&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>imported&gt;Kansas Bear: removed unreliable sources</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?title=Tancred,_Prince_of_Galilee&amp;diff=655871&amp;oldid=prev"/>
		<updated>2025-11-11T00:26:41Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;removed unreliable sources&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;{{Short description|Prince of Galilee (1099–1101, 1109–1112)}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{use dmy dates|date=August 2025}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{Infobox royalty&lt;br /&gt;
| name         = Tancred&lt;br /&gt;
| title        = Marquis and Prince of Galilee&lt;br /&gt;
| image        = Tankreds coin.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| caption      = Reproduction of Tancred&amp;#039;s portrait engraved on a coin during his regency of Antioch&lt;br /&gt;
| succession   = [[Prince of Galilee]]&lt;br /&gt;
| reign        = 1099–1101&lt;br /&gt;
| reign-type   = First rule&lt;br /&gt;
| successor    = [[Hugh of Fauquembergues]]&lt;br /&gt;
| predecessor1 = [[Gervase of Bazoches]]&lt;br /&gt;
| successor1   = [[Joscelin I of Courtenay]]&lt;br /&gt;
| reign1       = 1109–1112&lt;br /&gt;
| reign-type1  = Second rule&lt;br /&gt;
| spouse       = [[Cecile of France]]&lt;br /&gt;
| issue        = &lt;br /&gt;
| house        = [[House of Aleramici]]&lt;br /&gt;
| house-type   = &lt;br /&gt;
| father       = [[Odo the Good Marquis]]&lt;br /&gt;
| mother       = [[Emma of Hauteville]]&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_date   = {{circa|1075}}&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_place  = [[Italy]]&lt;br /&gt;
| death_date   = {{death date|df=y|1112|12|5}}&lt;br /&gt;
| death_place  = [[Principality of Antioch]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;(now [[Antakya]], [[Hatay Province|Hatay]], [[Turkey]])&lt;br /&gt;
| burial_place = [[Church of Saint Peter]], [[Antioch]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;(modern-day [[Antakya]], [[Hatay Province|Hatay]], [[Turkey]])&lt;br /&gt;
| religion     = [[Roman Catholic]]&lt;br /&gt;
| signature    = &lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Tancred second coin type.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Original coin issued by Tancred during his regency of Antioch.]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tancred of Galilee&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (also &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tancred the Marquis&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;; {{c.}} [[1075]] – 5 or 12 December [[1112]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] nobleman of [[Franks|Frankish]] origin, counted amongst the four main leaders of the [[First Crusade]]. He is credited as the first Christian to enter Jerusalem after its [[Siege of Jerusalem (1099)|conquest]] in 1099. Present at the foundation of the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]], Tancred became [[Prince of Galilee]] and regent of the [[Principality of Antioch]] in his uncle [[Bohemond I of Antioch|Bohemond]]&amp;#039;s behalf.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Ernest Barker (1911). &amp;quot;[[s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Tancred (crusader)|Tancred (crusader)]]&amp;quot;. In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Encyclopædia Britannica&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;26.&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 394-395.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Grabois, Aryeh (2006). In &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Crusades - An Encyclopedia&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. pp. 1143–1145.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He then married princess [[Cecile of France|Cecilie of France]], thus becoming son-in-law to King [[Philip I of France|Philip I of the Franks]], and brother-in-law to King [[Fulk, King of Jerusalem|Fulk of Jerusalem]] (Cecilie&amp;#039;s half-brother).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Despite his usual misidentification as an [[Italo-Normans|Italo-Norman]], it is well established that Tancred&amp;#039;s link to the [[Normans|Norman]] [[Hauteville family|House of Hauteville]] was solely through his mother [[Emma of Hauteville|Emma]] (a sister of [[Bohemond I of Antioch]]). His long debated paternal lineage, on the other hand, has since been placed in the Northern-Italian ruling house of the [[Aleramici|Aleramids]], a family of [[Franks|Frankish]] origin.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |title=Tancredi d’altavilla - Enciclopedia |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tancredi-d-altavilla_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |access-date=2025-09-17 |website=Treccani |language=it}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |last=Doria |first=Claudio Martinotti |date=2019-03-29 |title=Crociate e i Monferrato, secondo gli storici locali (terza parte) |url=https://www.nuovefrontiere.net/crociate-e-i-monferrato-secondo-gli-storici-locali-ultima-parte/ |access-date=2025-09-17 |website=Nuove Frontiere |language=it-IT}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His first biography, the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Gesta Tancredi]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (c. 1120) by [[Ralph of Caen]], was later fictionalized by [[Torquato Tasso]] in &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Jerusalem Delivered]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1581), followed by [[Claudio Monteverdi]] in &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1624), by [[Voltaire]] in &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Tancrède (tragedy)|Tancrède]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1760), and by [[Gioachino Rossini]] in &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Tancredi]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1813), among many others. His imagined portrait has also been represented throughout European art history, including by [[Tintoretto]], [[Lorenzo Lippi]], [[Nicolas Poussin]], [[Luca Giordano]], and others.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Origin==&lt;br /&gt;
===Insertion in the House of Hauteville===&lt;br /&gt;
Tancred the Marquis (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tancredi Marchisio&amp;#039;&amp;#039;) was probably born in [[Southern Italy]] to [[Odo the Good Marquis|Odo &amp;quot;the Good Marquis&amp;quot;]] and [[Emma of Hauteville]], daughter of [[Robert Guiscard]] and his first wife [[Alberada of Buonalbergo]]. Two early authors ([[Ralph of Caen]] and [[Orderic Vitalis]]), mistook Emma for Guiscard&amp;#039;s sister, leading [[Fulcher of Chartres]] and [[Jacques de Vitry]] to conclude that Tancred was a cousin and not a nephew of [[Bohemond I of Antioch]]. Almost every other author (including [[William of Tyre]], [[Albert of Aix]] and [[Marino Sanuto the Elder]]) consider Tancred a nephew of Bohemond, and son of his sister (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot;Tankradus sororis filius Boemundi&amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in Aix, and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot;ex sorore nepos&amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in Tyre and Sanuto). According to David Crawley, this last interpretation is the most plausible considering Tancred&amp;#039;s youth at the time of the [[First Crusade]] (much younger than his uncle Bohemond).&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Jerusalem-Tancreds-Tower-KC-310.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Remains of [[Tancred&amp;#039;s Tower]] in [[Jerusalem]]]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== The controversy of Odo &amp;quot;the Good Marquis&amp;quot; ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Boh Tan.jpg|thumb|400px|[[Bohemond I of Antioch|Bohemond I]] and Tancred in a 13th-century miniature]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:BaudouinDeBoulogneAndThe Armenians.jpg|thumb|400px|Miniature of Tancred receiving the [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|Cilician]] envoys, in [[William of Tyre]] (c. 1286)]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Tancred, Tarsus.jpg|thumb|[[Constantine I, Prince of Armenia|Constantine I of Armenia]] and Tancred at [[Tarsus, Mersin|Tarsus]]|400px]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Svatby3.jpg|thumb|400px|Marriage of the daughers of King [[Philip I of France]] ([[Cecile of France|Cecilie]] and [[Constance of France, Princess of Antioch|Constance]]) to Tancred and his uncle [[Bohemond I of Antioch|Bohemond]]]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Domenico Tintoretto - Tancred Baptizing Clorinda - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|400px|Tancred baptizing [[Clorinda (Jerusalem Delivered)|Clorinda]] according to [[Tintoretto]] ([[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston|Houston Museum of Fine Arts]])]]&lt;br /&gt;
In regards to Tancred&amp;#039;s father, Crawley unfortunately uses an outdated transcription of [[William of Tyre]]&amp;#039;s text, making Tancred a son of &amp;quot;William the Marquis&amp;quot; (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tancredus Willelmi Marchionis filius&amp;#039;&amp;#039;). This version was later corrected by the 17th-century [[Philology|philologist]] [[Sebastiano Paoli]], who proposed the transcription of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tancredus, Willelmi Marchionis frater&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite book |last=Paoli |url=https://www.google.it/books/edition/Codice_diplomatico_del_sacro_militare_or/dRSFJv7hRz4C?hl=en&amp;amp;gbpv=1&amp;amp;dq=tancredi+marchisius&amp;amp;pg=PA388&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover |title=Codice diplomatico del sacro militare ordine Gerosolimitano oggi di Malta ... per servire alla storia dello stesso Ordine in Soria |date=1733 |publisher=Marescandoli |language=it}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; (meaning Tancred was the brother and not the son of &amp;quot;William the Marquis&amp;quot;), in accordance with the contemporary statements of [[Baldric of Dol]] (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Guillelmus Marchisius, Tancred frater&amp;#039;&amp;#039;) and [[Guibert of Nogent]] (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wilhelmus, Marchisi filius, frater Tancredi&amp;#039;&amp;#039;). Nogent even goes as far as to say that while Tancred followed his uncle Bohemond, his brother William followed [[Hugh, Count of Vermandois|Hugh &amp;quot;the Great&amp;quot; of Vermandois]] (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tancredum Marchionis cuiusdam ex Boemundi, nisi fallor, sorore filium; cuius frater cum Hugone Magno praecesserat, cui Guillelmus erat vocabulum&amp;#039;&amp;#039;). Most contemporary authors agree that &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tancredi Marchisius&amp;#039;&amp;#039; was a Marquis (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Marchisus dictus est&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Historia belli sacri]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;), brother of William the Marquis (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Guillelmus Marchisius, Tancred frater&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in [[Baldric of Dol]]) and a son of a Marquis (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;marchisi filius&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in [[Historia Hierosolymitana (Robert the Monk)|Robert the Monk]] and [[Guibert of Nogent]], and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Marchisides&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in [[Ralph of Caen]]). Only Orderic Vitalis names Tancred&amp;#039;s father as [[Odo the Good Marquis|Odo &amp;quot;the Good Marquis&amp;quot;]] (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tancredum, Odonis Boni Marchisi filium&amp;#039;&amp;#039;).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ralph of Caen also states that Tancred belonged to &amp;quot;a most prestigious lineage&amp;quot; and had &amp;quot;excellent parents, the Marquis and Emma&amp;quot; (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;clarae stirpis germen clarissimum, parentes eximios Marchisum habuit et Emmam&amp;#039;&amp;#039;). Modern and contemporary scholars have long debated the origin of [[Odo the Good Marquis|Odo &amp;quot;the Good Marquis&amp;quot;]], mostly agreeing that the title of [[marquis]] was unknown to the Normans (Sebastiano Paoli)&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:4&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; and must therefore have proceeded from a Northern-Italian root ([[Ludovico Antonio Muratori|Ludovico Muratori]]). [[Vittorio Poggi]] and Edoardo d&amp;#039;Angelo both agreed that it would be wiser to trace him in the North-Italian Frankish dynasty of the [[Aleramici|Aleramids]],&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:1&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; whose senior line of Savona recurrently married to the [[Hauteville family|Hautevilles]] during the 12th century (e.g. [[Adelaide del Vasto]] and [[Enrico del Vasto]]).&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:1&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite book |last=Poggi |first=Vittorio |url=https://www.google.it/books/edition/Cronotassi_Dei_Prinicipali_Magistrati_Ch/A8gJAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&amp;amp;gbpv=1&amp;amp;bsq=galilea&amp;amp;dq=&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover |title=Cronotassi Dei Prinicipali Magistrati Che Ressero E Amministrarono Il Comune Di Savona Dall Origini All Perdita Della Sua Autonomia |date=1895 |language=it}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Following this theory, Crawley attempts to find an equivalent to Otto &amp;quot;the Good Marquis&amp;quot; but only searches in the cadet branch of [[March of Montferrat|Monferrato]]. It is Claudio Martinotti Doria who first manages to identify Tancred&amp;#039;s father with the Aleramid Marquis [[Odo the Good Marquis|Otto IV of Savona]], son of [[Otto III of Savona|Otto III]] and brother of both [[Boniface del Vasto]] and [[Manfred I del Vasto|Manfred I]] (father of [[Adelaide del Vasto|Adelaide]] and [[Enrico del Vasto|Enrico]]).&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:2&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web |last=Pagina |first=Prima |last2=Contatti |last3=Policy |first3=Privacy |last4=Facebook |last5=Vimeo |last6=Rss |title=Il mistero del marchese Odobono |url=https://www.casalenews.it/patri-259-montisferrati-storie-aleramiche-e-dintorni/il-mistero-del-marchese-odobono-36308.html |access-date=2025-09-17 |website=www.casalenews.it |language=it}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; These findings concur with [[Evelyn Jamison]]&amp;#039;s arguments stating that &amp;quot;the Good Marquis&amp;quot; was the same Otto (or Ottone) who commanded a division of [[Roger I of Sicily|Roger I]]&amp;#039;s troops in [[Taormina]] in 1078, and only later was styled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Ottobonus&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, or &amp;quot;Otto the Good&amp;quot;, since at least 1094.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[[Evelyn Jamison]], &amp;quot;Some Notes on the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Anonymi Gesta Francorum&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, with Special Reference to the Norman Contingent from South Italy and Sicily in the First Crusade&amp;quot;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Studies in French Language and Mediaeval Literature Presented to Professor Mildred K. Pope&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Manchester University Press, 1939), pp. 183–208, at 196–97.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== First Crusade ==&lt;br /&gt;
In 1096, Tancred joined his maternal uncle Bohemond on the [[First Crusade]], and the two made their way to [[Constantinople]]. There, he was pressured to swear an oath to [[Byzantine Emperor]] [[Alexius I Comnenus]], promising to give back any conquered land to the [[Byzantine Empire]]. Although the other leaders did not intend to keep their oaths, Tancred refused to swear the oath altogether. He participated in the [[siege of Nicaea]] in 1097, but the city was taken by Alexius&amp;#039; army after secret negotiations with the [[Seljuk Turks]]. Because of this, Tancred was very distrustful of the Byzantines.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In 1097, the Crusaders divided their forces at [[Heraclea Cybistra]] and Tancred entered the Levant by passing south through the [[Cilician Gates]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;gesta-tancredi-2005&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite Q|Q112759923|pages=57-58}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He displayed the skills of a brilliant strategist by seizing five of the most important sites in Cilicia Pedias, which included the ancient cities of [[Tarsus, Mersin|Tarsus]] and [[Adana]], the great emporium at [[Mopsuestia]], and the strategic castles at [[Sarvandikar]] and [[Anazarbus]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;edwards&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|last1=Edwards |first1=Robert W.| title=The Fortifications of Armenian Cilicia: Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXIII | date=1987 |publisher=Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University| location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=0-88402-163-7|pages=67, 69–70, 199–200, 216}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The last three settlements were annexed to the Principality of Antioch. During their fourteen-year occupation of Anazarbus the Crusaders built the magnificent donjon atop the center of the fortified outcrop. At Sarvandikar, which controlled the strategic Amanus Pass, Tancred imprisoned [[Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse|Raymond of Saint-Gilles]] in 1101–1102.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Matthew of Edessa, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Recueil des historiens des croisades, Documents arméniens&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, vol. 1, reprint: Farnborough, 1967, p. 57.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He assisted in the [[siege of Antioch]] in 1098. One year later, during the assault on [[Jerusalem]], Tancred, along with [[Gaston IV of Béarn]], claimed to have been the first [[Crusade]]r to enter the city on July 15.{{refn|Alternatively, it has been claimed that the first Crusader to enter Jerusalem was [[Ludolf of Tournai]],&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book|last1=Reichberg|first1=Gregory M.|last2=Syse|first2=Henrik|last3=Begby|first3=Endre|title=The ethics of war: classic and contemporary readings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V6zsYjrcifMC&amp;amp;dq=Letholdus+jerusalem&amp;amp;pg=PA102|year=2006|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-1-4051-2377-8|page=102}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|last=J. S. C. Riley-Smith, Jonathan Phillips, Alan V. Murray, Guy Perry and Nicholas Morton (2016). A Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land, 1095–1149|title=Lethold of Tournai|url=https://www.dhi.ac.uk/crusaders/person/?id=478}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Asbridge, Thomas (2004). &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The First Crusade, A New History&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Oxford University Press. p. 315.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; who was followed by his brother Englebert.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}|group=Note}} When the city fell, Tancred along with other crusading armies participated in the sacking of the city. His biographer Ralph of Caen is cited to have said that &amp;quot;Tancred was one of the most active participants in the decimation of the conquered Saracens.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; During the final stages of the battle Tancred gave his banner to a group of the citizens who had fled to the roof of the [[Al-Aqsa Mosque#Crusader/Ayyubid period|Temple of Solomon]]{{Broken anchor|date=2024-11-26|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Al-Aqsa_Mosque#Crusader/Ayyubid period|reason= The anchor (Crusader/Ayyubid period) [[Special:Diff/1259611002|has been deleted]].}}.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite book |last=Nicholson |first=Robert Lawrance |title=Tancred: A Study of His Career and Work in Their Relation to the First Crusade and the Establishment of the Latin States in Syria and Palestine |publisher=The University of Chicago |year=1940 |pages=7, 94–95 |language=English}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; This should have assured their safety, but in the confusion of the moment, they were massacred by other Crusaders who were sacking the city.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; The author of the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Gesta Francorum]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (&amp;quot;Deeds of the Franks&amp;quot;) records that when Tancred realized this he was &amp;quot;greatly angered&amp;quot;. However, his fury was calmed by the argument that the possibility of a counterattack meant it was too dangerous for the defenders of Jerusalem to be left alive.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; When the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]] was established, Tancred became Prince of Galilee.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Regency of Antioch ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Finoglio jerusalem 1.JPG|thumb|300x300px|Tancred confronting Clorinda according to [[Paolo Domenico Finoglia]] ([[Palazzo Acquaviva]])]]&lt;br /&gt;
In 1100, Tancred became regent of Antioch when Bohemond was taken prisoner by the [[Danishmends]] at the [[Battle of Melitene]]. He expanded the territory of the Latin principality by capturing land from the Byzantines, although over the next decade Alexius attempted, unsuccessfully, to bring him under Byzantine control. In 1104, he also took control of the [[County of Edessa]] when [[Baldwin II of Jerusalem|Baldwin II]] was taken captive after the [[Battle of Harran]]. After Baldwin&amp;#039;s release in late 1108, he had to fight Tancred (probably in early 1109) to regain control of the county; Tancred was eventually defeated and returned to Antioch. After Harran, Bohemond returned to Europe to recruit more Crusaders, again leaving his nephew as regent in [[Antioch]]. Tancred&amp;#039;s victory over [[Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan|Radwan of Aleppo]] at the [[Battle of Artah]] in 1105 allowed the Latin principality to recover some its territories east of the [[Orontes River]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Smail, p. 28&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Poussin - Tancred and Erminia, 1631, ГЭ-1189.jpg|thumb|300x300px|[[Jerusalem Delivered|Erminia]] finds the wounded Tancred according to Nicolas Poussin ([[Hermitage Museum]])]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Tancred and Clorinda LACMA M.79.101.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Terracota sculpture of Tancred and Clorinda (Naples, 18th century, in [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art|LACMA]])]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In 1108, Tancred refused to honour the [[Treaty of Devol]], in which Bohemond swore an oath of fealty to Alexius, and for decades afterwards Antioch remained independent of the Byzantine Empire. In late September 1108, near [[Turbessel]], Tancred, with 1,500 Frankish knights and infantry and 600 Turkish horsemen sent by Fakhr al-Mulk Ridwan, confronted Baldwin II and the 2,000 men of [[Jawali Saqawa]], atabeg of [[Mosul]]. Tancred and Ridwan routed Jawali&amp;#039;s men, who took refuge in Turbessel. Later on, Tancred, who had initially refused to abandon Turbessel to Baldwin II, decided at the assembly in [[Château Pèlerin]] in April 1109 to give up Turbessel in return for his restoration to his old domains in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.{{sfn|Lock|2006|p=30}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In 1110, he brought [[Krak des Chevaliers]] under his control, which would later become an important castle in the [[County of Tripoli]]. Tancred remained the regent of Antioch for [[Bohemond II of Antioch|Bohemond II]] until his death in 1112 during a [[typhoid]] epidemic. He had married [[Cecile of France]], but died childless. Tancred was buried in the porch of [[Church of Cassian|St. Peter]], the cathedral of Antioch.{{sfn|Runciman|1987|pp=126-126}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Gesta Tancredi]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is a biography of Tancred written in [[Latin language|Latin]] by [[Ralph of Caen]], a Norman who joined the First Crusade and served under Tancred and Bohemond. An English translation was co-published in 2005 by Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Character ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Tancrède de Hauteville.jpg|thumb|Tancred by [[Merry-Joseph Blondel]] ([[Palace of Versailles|Palace of Versaille]])|500px]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Ralph of Caen]] details Tancred&amp;#039;s personality in his chronicle and biography of him in the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Gesta Tancredi]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Ralph notes how Tancred was well aware of the innate sinfulness of the knightly profession and the violence it entailed, and how this led him to give up his life in Norman-dominated southern Italy to take part in [[Pope Urban II]]&amp;#039;s call for an [[armed pilgrimage]] to the Holy Land.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite book |title=Gesta Tancredi |pages=21–22}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Tancred is described by Ralph as a very pious, violent hawk of a man. He was a shrewd, opportunistic warrior bred for conquest with a combative nature, but it also showcases a very pragmatic side of him concerning the even distribution among his men of the plunder gained following the despoliation of the mosques of Jerusalem after the city&amp;#039;s conquest by the Crusaders in 1099.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite book |title=Gesta Tancredi |pages=143–145}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==In fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
Tancred appears as a character in [[Torquato Tasso]]&amp;#039;s 16th-century poem &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Jerusalem Delivered]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, in which he is portrayed as an epic hero and given a fictional love interest, the pagan warrior-maiden Clorinda. This poem was the inspiration for the 1957 film &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Mighty Crusaders (film)|The Mighty Crusaders]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, about the Siege of Jerusalem in June–July 1099. He is also loved by the Princess [[Erminia]] of Antioch. Portions of Tasso&amp;#039;s verses were set by [[Claudio Monteverdi]] in his 1624 dramatic work &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. He also appears in one of the scenes in [[Imre Madách]]&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Az ember tragédiája|The Tragedy of Man]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. In [[Edwin Thomas (novelist)|Tom Harper]]&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Siege of Heaven&amp;#039;&amp;#039; he is depicted as a violent psychopath. His portrayal is similar although slightly more humorous in [[Alfred Duggan]]&amp;#039;s novel &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Count Bohemond&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tancred also appears in Sir [[Walter Scott]]&amp;#039;s 1832 novel &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Count Robert of Paris]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, as one of the Crusade leaders who returned to [[Constantinople]] from [[Üsküdar|Scutari]] to ensure a fair contest between Count Robert and his challenger. The novel &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Tancred (novel)|Tancred, or the New Crusade]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; by [[Benjamin Disraeli]] centres around the adventures of an imagined modern descendant and namesake of the Prince of Galilee. Rossini&amp;#039;s opera &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Tancredi]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is based on Tasso, via [[Voltaire]]&amp;#039;s play &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tancrède&amp;#039;&amp;#039; of 1759.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Modern fictional portrayals of Tancred include [[Sharon Kay Penman]]&amp;#039;s novel &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Lionheart (novel)|Lionheart]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
{{reflist|group=Note}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Sources==&lt;br /&gt;
* Edwards, Robert W., &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Fortifications of Armenian Cilicia: Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXIII&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University (1987). {{ISBN|0-88402-163-7}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book |last=Lock |first=Peter |year=2006 |title=The Routledge Companion to the Crusades |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9-78-0-415-39312-6 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* Robert Lawrence Nicholson, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tancred: A Study of His Career and Work&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. AMS Press, 1978.&lt;br /&gt;
* Peters, Edward, ed., &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book |last1=Runciman |first1=Steven |title=A History of the Crusades |date=3 December 1987 |publisher=CUP Archive |isbn=978-0-521-34771-6 |pages=125–126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QL88AAAAIAAJ |access-date=20 February 2024 |language=en}}&lt;br /&gt;
* Smail, R. C. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Crusading Warfare 1097–1193.&amp;#039;&amp;#039; New York: Barnes &amp;amp; Noble Books, (1956) 1995. {{ISBN|1-56619-769-4}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book |last=Ferdinandi |first=Sergio |year=2017 |title= La Contea Franca di Edessa. Fondazione e Profilo Storico del Primo Principato Crociato nel Levante (1098-1150) |publisher= Pontificia Università Antonianum - Rome |isbn=978-88-7257-103-3 }}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* {{in lang|en}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3Ef99ZUZoYC&amp;amp;q=gesta+tancredi &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Gesta Tancredi&amp;#039;&amp;#039;]&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Wikisource-inline|list=&lt;br /&gt;
** {{Cite Collier&amp;#039;s|wstitle=Tancred|short=x |noicon=x}}&lt;br /&gt;
** {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Tancred|short=x |noicon=x}}&lt;br /&gt;
** {{Cite NSRW|wstitle=Tancred|short=x |noicon=x}}&lt;br /&gt;
** {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Tancred (crusader)|display=Tancred (d. 1112)|short=x |noicon=x}}&lt;br /&gt;
** {{Cite AmCyc|wstitle=Tancred|short=x |noicon=x}}&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-start}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-new}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-ttl|title=[[Prince of Galilee]]|years=1099–1101}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-aft|after=[[Hugh of Fauquembergues]]}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-bef|before=[[Gervase of Bazoches]]}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-ttl|title=[[Prince of Galilee]]|years=1099–1101}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-aft|after=[[Joscelin I of Edessa|Joscelin of Courtenay]]}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-bef|before=[[Geldemar Carpenel]]}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-ttl|title=[[Lord of Haifa]]|years=1104–1112}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-aft|after=[[Rorgius]]}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-bef|before=[[Bohemond of Taranto]]}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-ttl|title=[[Prince of Antioch]]|years=1104–1112}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-aft|after=[[Roger of Salerno]]}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{s-end}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{Antioch Monarchs}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{Authority control}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Christians of the First Crusade]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Princes of Galilee]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Lords of Haifa]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Deaths from typhoid fever]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Torquato Tasso characters]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Italo-Normans]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Norman warriors]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:1070s births]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:1112 deaths]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Hauteville family]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:12th-century regents]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>imported&gt;Kansas Bear</name></author>
	</entry>
</feed>