Tancred of Hauteville (born 1119, died 16 March between 1138 and 1140), the second son of King

Roger II of Sicily Roger II ( it, Ruggero II; 22 December 1095 – 26 February 1154) was King of Sicily and Africa, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his brother Simon. He began his rule as Count of Sicily in 1105, became Duke of Apulia and Calabria i ...

and his first wife, Elvira of Castile, was the Prince of

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and

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from 1132 to 1138. He was named by his father to replace the rebellious

Grimoald, Prince of Bari Grimoald Alferanites was the prince of Bari from 1121 to 1132. After a civil war broke out in Bari, Risone, the archbishop of the city, was murdered (1117) and the princess of Taranto, Constance of France, was imprisoned at Giovinazzo (1119) by ...

, in 1132. He was only about thirteen or fourteen years old at the time. When he grew to adulthood, he became, along with his brothers

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, duke of Apulia, and

Alfonso Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula. ...

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, one of his father's chief men on the peninsula, while the king himself remained mostly in

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. Tancred died young between 1138 and 1140.

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, his other brother, inherited his estates and titles. An

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for an unnamed "son of Roger the Frank, lord of Sicily" by the Sicilian poet Abū l-Ḍawʾ was likely about Tancred, since the son in question was a young man who had only just begun his martial career. It was possibly about his brother Alfonso.

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