Benjamin Disraeli describes Alnwick as ' Montacute ' in his novel Tancred.

Disraeli's disagreements were chiefly with his longtime conservative rival, Peel, although a tempering of his unqualified support for Young England's social-political ideals surfaces in his novel Tancred, or the New Crusade.

* Tancred ( b. 1119 – d. 1138 ), Prince of Bari ( from 1135 ).

His career is discussed by B von Kugler, Bohemund und Tancred ( 1862 ); while L von Heinemann, Geschichte der Norniannen in Sicilien und Unteritalien ( 1894 ), and R. Röhricht, Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges ( 1901 ), and Geschichte das Königreichs Jerusalem ( 1898 ), may also be consulted for his history.

** 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 of Sicily ( 1138-1194 ), King of Sicily in the late twelfth century

* Tancred Tancredi ( 1185-1241 ), Dominican friar

* Tancred of Bologna ( 1185-1236 ), Dominican canonist

* Tancred ( play ), a nineteenth century play by John Augustus Stone

1198 ), the second son of King Tancred of Lecce and Sibylla of Acerra, was briefly king of Sicily for ten months in 1194.

Bohemond's cousin Tancred became regent in Edessa ( although Richard of Salerno actually governed the territory ), until Baldwin and Joscelin were ransomed in 1108.

Nicolas Poussin, Tancred and Erminia ( c. 1634 ), Oil on canvasThe collection is full of famous works by artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt, displayed in spacious and elegant galleries on the first floor of the Institute.

The two wives of Tancred of Hauteville were claimed to be daughters of ' Richard of Normandy ' ( either I or II ), although sources are late and considered untrustworthy.

The early tragedies of Appius and Virginia, and Tancred and Gismund were taken from The Palace of Pleasure ; and among better-known plays derived from the book are the Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Edward III, All's Well That Ends Well ( from Giletta of Narbonne ), Beaumont and Fletcher's Triumph of Death, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and James Shirley's Love's Cruelty.

Tancred was born in New Zealand, the fifth child and second son of Thomas Selby Tancred, 8th Baronet ( 1840 – 1910 ), a mining and railway engineer who was a contractor for the Forth Railway Bridge and the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railway.

In 1107, encouraged by Tancred, Prince of Antioch, Toros followed the course of the Pyramus River ( today the river Ceyhan in Turkey ), and seized the stronghold of Anazarbus ( a place which had been considered impregnable ).

Disraeli's trilogy Coningsby ( 1844 ), Sybil ( 1845 ), and Tancred ( 1847 ) details the intellectual arguments of Young England while showing an informed sympathy for England's poor.

* Cecile of France ( died 1145 ), married ( 1 ) Tancred, Prince of Galilee ; married ( 2 ) Pons of Tripoli

One of twelve sons of Tancred of Hauteville, he journeyed to the Mezzogiorno with his younger brother Drogo in the first half of the eleventh century ( c. 1035 ), in response to requests for help made by fellow Normans under Rainulf Drengot, count of Aversa.

Tancred, however, noted a move away from the ideals of Young England and was published at a time when Young England as a political group was largely defunct.

After that, he rewrote and expanded the one volume into four, published in 1828-29: Godfridus, containing a general introduction ( named after Godfrey of Boulogne, a Crusade hero ); Tancredus, discussing chivalry ’ s discipline and applauding Christianity ( for Tancred of Hauteville, another Crusade hero ); Morus, bashing the Reformation as the death of chivalry and religion ( after Sir Thomas More ); and Orlandus, which detailed Digby ’ s idea of chivalric behaviour ( after Ariosto ’ s Orlando Furioso ).

* Tancred ( 1847 ) by Benjamin Disraeli

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

In spite of agreeing to crown Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, Clement III angered him by bestowing Sicily on Tancred.

The treaty was signed by Richard, Philip and Tancred.

* Richard officially proclaimed his nephew, Arthur of Brittany, son of Geoffrey, as his heir, and Tancred promised to marry one of his daughters to Arthur when he came of age, giving a further twenty thousand ounces of gold that would be returned by Richard if Arthur did not marry Tancred's daughter.

On 28 March 1193 Richard was brought to Speyer and handed over to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, who was aggrieved both by the support which the Plantagenets had given to the family of Henry the Lion, and also by Richard's recognition of Tancred in Sicily, and who imprisoned him in Trifels Castle.

* August – Bohemond I of Antioch is captured by the Danishmends at the Battle of Melitene, leaving Tancred as regent of the Principality of Antioch for two years.

* Raymond IV of Toulouse is imprisoned by Tancred, regent of the Principality of Antioch.

* May 7 – Battle of Harran: Baldwin II, count of Edessa, is taken prisoner by the Seljuk Turks ; Tancred becomes regent.

In Jerusalem Baldwin was opposed by his old enemy Tancred, as well as the new patriarch, Dagobert of Pisa, who would have preferred to set up a theocratic state while Godfrey was still alive.

In 1111 Baldwin assisted Tancred in besieging Shaizar, and then also besieged Tyre, but was pushed back by a Muslim force under Toghtekin of Damascus.

The proposition that Haverfordwest Castle was founded by Tancred, a Flemish marcher lord is questionable.

Most of the foot soldiers wanted to continue south to Jerusalem, but Raymond IV of Toulouse, by this time the most powerful of the princes, having taken others into his employ, such as Tancred, hesitated to continue the march.

In 1102 he travelled by sea from Constantinople to Antioch, where he was imprisoned by Tancred, regent of Antioch during the captivity of Bohemond, and was only dismissed after promising not to attempt any conquests in the country between Antioch and Acre.

His nephew Tancred, who for three years and taken his uncle's place, had during that time attacked the Byzantines and added Tarsus, Adana and Massissa in Cilicia, but was now deprived of his lordship by Bohemond's return.

See also the Gesta Tancredi by Ralph of Caen, which is a panegyric of Bohemond's second-in-command Tancred.

The only major biography that exists in English is " 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 " by Robert Lawrence Nicholson.

Robert Guiscard was the sixth son of Tancred of Hauteville and eldest by his second wife Fressenda.

Roger was the youngest son of Tancred of Hauteville by his second wife Fredisenda, and by tradition the descendant of Norseman ( Viking ) named Hiallt who is said to have settled in Normandy in the 10th century.

Richard immediately demanded the release of his sister, William II's Queen Joan, imprisoned by Tancred in 1189, along with every penny of her dowry and inheritance.