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  2. Tancred (Italian: Tancredi; 1138 – 20 February 1194) was King of Sicily from 1189 to 1194. He was born in Lecce an illegitimate son of Roger III, Duke of Apulia (the eldest son of King Roger II) by his mistress Emma, a daughter of Achard II, Count of Lecce.

  3. Tancred was the king of Sicily whose brief reign marked the end of the Norman rule there. An illegitimate son of Duke Roger of Apulia and grandson of Roger II, king of Sicily, Tancred joined an insurrection in 1155 against his uncle William I of Sicily and was imprisoned for five years.

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  4. Tancred became the illegitimate king of Sicily and was crowned by Archbishop Walter of Palermo in January 1190. Roger, count of Andria, opposed Tancred’s coronation and called upon the Germans who were still in Sicily to help him oppose Tancred’s kingship.

  5. The monarchs of Sicily ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Sicily in 1130 until the "perfect fusion" in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1816. The origins of the Sicilian monarchy lie in the Norman conquest of southern Italy which occurred between the 11th and 12th century.

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  6. Tancred (Tancred of Lecce) (tăng´krĬd;, lĕ´chā), b. 1130 or 1134, d. 1194, king of Sicily (1190–94), illegitimate son of Roger of Apulia and grandson of Roger II of Sicily. On the death of his cousin, William II of Sicily, Tancred was crowned (1190) king.

  7. Tancred ( Italian: Tancredi; 1138 – 20 February 1194) was King of Sicily from 1189 to 1194. He was born in Lecce an illegitimate son of Roger III, Duke of Apulia (the eldest son of King Roger II) by his mistress Emma, a daughter of Achard II, Count of Lecce.

  8. TANCRED. Norman crusader; b. probably in the mid-1070s; d. Antioch, 1112. Tancred was a member of the Norman house of Hauteville, which had led the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century, and the nephew of Bohemund, Prince of Taranto and son of Robert Guiscard; he was born to Bohemund's half sister Emma and a Norman noble.

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