Tancred

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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.

People with the given name[edit]

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Fictional characters[edit]

  • Tancred of Salerno, in Boccaccio's Decameron novella collection
  • Tancred, in the Italian epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata (1581) by Torquato Tasso
  • Tancred, in the 1591 English play Tancred and Gismund
  • Tancred, Lord Montacute, title character of Benjamin Disraeli's 1847 novel Tancred
  • Tancred Torsson, in Jenny Nimmo's Children of the Red King series
  • Tancred, in the computer game Diablo 2
  • Tancred, in the video game 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
  • Tancred Saraceni, in Robertson Davies’ novel “What’s Bred in the Bone”
  • Tandredi Recchi, the family patriarch in the Luca Guadagnino 2009 film I Am Love
  • Father Tancred, a minor character in the 2010 film Robin Hood.
  • Tancred Cappelen-Jensen, in Bernhard Borge's novel "Døde menn går i land"

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  1. ^ Alfonso Burgio, Dizionario dei nomi propri di persona (Rome: Hermes Edizioni, 1992), p. 327.