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Tancred
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posted 02-03-2005 08:43 PM

Tancred,

I only just chose Tancred. I liked it because of both the crusader and also Tancred De Hauteville (Crusader Tancreds great-Grandfather?) who sired the five Norman entrepreneures who took Apuglia and Sicily.
Could you tell me whether it is a common Norman name or just a family specific name for the De Hauteville family? I'm kind of new at this, so I just wondered.

Tancred.

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tim seasholtz
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posted 02-06-2005 11:13 AM

I am not sure. I do know that I have not found the name after the 13th century and I have no reason as to why.
Interesting enough, many Italians have the last name Tancredi ( a local construction company is called this as well). I wonder if the name died of in France but lived on in Italy/Sicily?
Tim

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Wolf
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posted 02-06-2005 03:29 PM

ok there u are tim, i was getting confused cause u usually go by tancred on every other board.

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Chuck Russell

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Tancred
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posted 02-06-2005 03:34 PM

I suppose that since all of Tancred De Hautevilles' sons left France for Italy, it is possible this was a family name that died out.

Also, as they were Normans, so I wonder if there are any related Scandanavian names. It was only two hundred years or so after the Vikings 'became' Normans I suppose.

Interesting about the Italian surname. I suppose the name would not have survived the Islamic reconquest of the Holy land and perhaps as you say it died out in France but remained in Apuglia and Scicily.

Random but interesting...

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