Tancred (

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1104) was the Count of

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and a member of the

Hauteville family The Hauteville family (, ) was a Normans, Norman family, originally of petty lords, from the Cotentin, Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. The Hautevilles rose to prominence through their part in the Norman conquest of southern Italy. In 1130, Roger ...

. He was appointed by his relative

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to govern one of the first and only feudal counties created in Sicily after the

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. His predecessor was Roger's son,

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. His descendant, Simon, still ruled Syracuse in the middle of the twelfth century.

References

* Abulafia, David (1977). ''The Two Italies: Economic Relations between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Northern Communes''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN, 0-521-21211-1. Italo-Normans Norman warriors 12th-century counts in Europe Counts of Syracuse