Tancredo of Galilee

Tancredo and Erminia of Nicolas Poussin - Tancredo Galilee romanticize in a version created in the sixteenth century.
Tancredo Tancredo of Galilee or Hauteville (1072 or 1076 - 5 December 12 1112) was a leader of the First Crusade which later became Prince of Galilee and regent of the Principality of Antioquia. He was the son of Enma Puglia, Taranto of Bohemund nephew and grandson of Roberto Guiscardo.
In 1096, Tancredo joined his uncle in the First Crusade Bohemund. In Constantinople, the Crusaders were pressured by leaders Alejo Comneno I promised to yield to the Byzantine Empire conquered lands of the Muslims. Despite the jury that other leaders had no plan to fulfill the promise, even Tancredo refusal to make oath.
Having participated in the siege of Nicaea in 1097, saw the city was taken by the army of Alejo Comneno because of the secret negotiations with the Seljuk Turks. From this moment Tancredo did not trust the Byzantines. Later that year, I Tarsus and other towns of Cilicia, and took part in the siege of Antioquia in 1097.
The following year, during the attack on Jerusalem, Tancredo, and Gaston IV of Bearn, claimed the honor of being the first Crusader to enter the city on July 15. Both took hundreds of Muslim prisoners, giving protection to some of these on the roof of the Temple of Jerusalem. But the following morning the Crusaders commanded the slaughter of refugees in the temple, Muslims and Jews, men and women. When the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Tancredo received the Principality of Galilee, vassal of the kingdom.
Tancredo quit his principality to become a regent of Antioquia in 1100, when his uncle was trapped by Bohemund Danismendidas. He expanded the territory of the principality to take land from the Byzantines, though in the decade following Alejo Comneno attempted unsuccessfully to subdue the control of its empire.
In 1104 also became regent of the County of Edessa Baldwin II when he was trapped in the Battle of Harran. some things And after his release in 1107, Baldwin had to fight against Tancredo, allying with some local Muslim leaders to resume their county and see his rival again and regent for Antioquia.
In 1108, with the death of Gervais Bazoches, Tancredo returned to take control of the Principality of Galilee. Rejection is to honor the Treaty of return, by which treaty Bohemund Alejo Comneno to swear allegiance, and for several decades, the Principality of Antioquia remained independent of the Byzantine Empire. In 1110 I Krak de los Caballeros, a city that later would be an important strength of the County of Tripoli.
Tancredo remained Antioqu a run on behalf of his cousin Bohemund II until his death in 1112, during an epidemic of typhoid fever. Had married Cecilia de France, daughter of King Philip I of France, but died without offspring.

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