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“well-thought advice”
/ˈtæŋkɹɪd/ · English (UK, US)
01 / Meaning & origin
Tancred is a masculine given name documented in English and Finnish. English Wikipedia gives the meaning “well-thought advice”.
Meaning: “well-thought advice”
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04 / Through time
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Tancred— “grateful speech”
The first syllable of the name is the same as our word _thank_, and the name means thankful or grateful. The father of Chriemhild was thus Thank-rede, or grateful speech, and from him the Northmen seem to have taken their Thakraad, which in Normandy became Tancred, the knight of Hauteville, whose twelve gallant sons chased the Saracens from Apulia, and were the founders of the only brave dynasty that ever ruled in the enervating realms of the Two Sicilies. The son of one of…
The first syllable of the name is the same as our word _thank_, and the name means thankful or grateful. The father of Chriemhild was thus Thank-rede, or grateful speech, and from him the Northmen seem to have taken their Thakraad, which in Normandy became Tancred, the knight of Hauteville, whose twelve gallant sons chased the Saracens from Apulia, and were the founders of the only brave dynasty that ever ruled in the enervating realms of the Two Sicilies. The son of one of these gallant knights, Tancredi di Puglia, was the foremost in the first crusade, and the favourite hero of Tasso, in whose epic he is a Christian Achilles; and Tancredi again was the last Sicilian king of the true Norman line, the same whose bickerings with Cœur de Lion make so unpleasant an episode in the third Crusade.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter IV (Heroic Names Of The Nibelung), Section IX (Dankwart) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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Italo-Norman leader of the First Crusade (1075-1112)
Norman king of Sicily (1138-1194)
Norman petty lord
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