* 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 "

Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney is a fictional character, the protagonist of Peter Barnes ' 1968 play, The Ruling Class.

** July 15 – Christian soldiers under Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert II of Flanders, Raymond IV of Toulouse and Tancred take Jerusalem after a difficult siege.

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.

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.

He also faced opposition from Dagobert of Pisa, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, who was allied with Tancred.

Much of the evidence for this comes from William of Tyre, whose account of these events is troublesome ; it is only William who tells us that Dagobert forced Godfrey to concede Jerusalem and Jaffa, while other writers such as Albert of Aachen and Ralph of Caen suggest that both Dagobert and his ally Tancred had sworn an oath to Godfrey to accept only one of his brothers or blood relations as his successor.

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.

Alexius wanted Tancred to return the Principality entirely to Byzantium, but Tancred was supported by the County of Tripoli and the Kingdom of Jerusalem ; Tancred, in fact, had been the only Crusade leader who did not swear to return conquered land to Alexius ( though none of the other leaders, save for Raymond IV of Toulouse, kept their oaths anyway ).

However, Godfrey died in July, when Dagobert was accompanying a campaign against Jaffa under Bohemund's nephew, Tancred, Prince of Galilee, and the Jerusalem knights offered the lordship to Baldwin, who was Godfrey's brother.

With the support of Tancred, Dagobert wrote offering the lordship of Jerusalem to Bohemund, but the letter was intercepted and Bohemund was captured by the Turks.

In June, Robert and Gaston IV of Bearn led the vanguard which arrived at Ramla, and with Tancred of Taranto he led an expedition into Samaria to find wood in order to construct siege engines for the Siege of Jerusalem.

Bohemond and Tancred marched north from Antioch to Edessa to join with Baldwin and Joscelin of Courtenay, accompanied by Bernard of Valence the Patriarch of Antioch, Daimbert of Pisa the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Benedict the Archbishop of Edessa.

William allied himself with Tancred, Prince of Galilee, at the time Regent of the Principality of Antioch, while and Bertrand asked Baldwin I of Jerusalem to intervene.

In 1099, during the assault on Jerusalem, Tancred, along with Gaston IV of Béarn, claimed to be the first Crusader to enter the city on July 15.

When the Kingdom of Jerusalem was established, Tancred became Prince of Galilee.

Gaston and Tancred were sent ahead of the main army to occupy Bethlehem, and during the siege of Jerusalem, Gaston was in charge of Godfrey's siege engines.

He preferred negotiation and dialogue to senseless massacre, and he and Tancred tried to protect some of the Muslims of Jerusalem by sheltering them in the Temple.

* Poussin's illustration to Jerusalem Delivered ( 1630s ): Two versions of the " Tancred and Erminia " subject exist from c. 1630.

In 1111, Tancred, Baldwin I of Jerusalem, and Bertrand of Tripoli besieged Shaizar for two weeks, but returned home when the army of Mawdud of Mosul cut off their access to food and water.

" 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.

* Joan was to receive 20, 000 ounces of gold as compensation for her inheritance, which Tancred kept.

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.

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

Various legends arose about Tancred which have no supporting contemporary evidence that has survived the ages.

Soon after, Bohemond was captured by the Danishmends of Syria and was imprisoned for three years, during which the Antiochenes chose his nephew Tancred as regent.

Although Antioch recovered by the next year, the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus imposed the Treaty of Devol on Bohemond, which would have made Antioch a vassal of the empire had Tancred agreed to it.

In 1108, Tancred refused to honour the Treaty of Devol, in which Bohemund swore an oath of fealty to Alexius, and, for decades afterwards, Antioch remained independent of the Byzantine Empire.

Al-Afdal left behind his camp and its treasures, which were captured by Robert and Tancred.

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 ).

At Düsseldorf, about 1830, he produced " Romeo and Juliet ," " Tancred and Clorinda ," and other works which deserved to be classed with earlier paintings ; but during the same period he exhibited ( 1829 ) the " Robber " and ( 1832 ) the " Captain and his Infant Son ," examples of an affected but kindly realism, which captivated the public, and marked to a certain extent an epoch in Prussian art.

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 ).

* 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.

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

It is recorded that the Constable of the castle in 1207 was Itohert son of Richard Tancard-possibly a descendant of the first 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.

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.

He inherited the title " Count of Lecce " from his grandfather, and is consequently often referred to as Tancred of Lecce.

It is rumoured that before he left, Richard gave Tancred a sword he claimed was Excalibur in order to secure their friendship.

However, Tancred was willing to give up his negotiation advantage, that is, the empress, in exchange for Pope Celestine III legitimising him as King of Sicily.

However, Tancred was willing to give up his negotiation advantage, that is, the Empress, in return for Pope Celestine III legitimising him as King of Sicily.

Tancred of Hauteville ( 980 – 1041 ) was an eleventh-century Norman petty lord about whom little is known.

Tancred is a supposed descendant of Hiallt.

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 Gesta Tancredi is a biography of Tancred written in Latin by Ralph of Caen, a Norman who joined the First Crusade and served under Tancred and Bohemund.

Contrary to popular opinion, Rossini's opera " Tancredi " is not about Tancred Prince of Galilee ; the opera story takes place in 1005 whereas Tancred was born in 1072.

1568-1608 ) is prepended to the 1591 edition of Wilmot's play Tragedie of Tancred and Gismund.

Johnny betrayed Tancred, a neighbour and fellow comrade in the IRA, and is afraid that he will be executed as punishment.