Tankred (first name)

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Tankred is a male name.

Tankred (German form: Dankrad , Tankrad ) is of Germanic origin. It is made up of "danc" = thinking, thought, thanks and "rad" = advice, advice, counselor.

The name Tankred was used as Tancrad / Tancred by the Northern French, some of whom were of Franconian origin. In Italy, this name Tancrad / Tancred became Tancredo (first name) and Tancredi (first name and surname) a little later , when Normans from Normandy also settled in southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century , also founded empires and until the 13th century . ruled there. The modern French first name Tancrède was derived from the Italian or Latin.

The French surname Tanqueray (also: Tanquerey, Tanqueret ), which comes from Normandy, is derived from Tancrad .

Name bearer

Historic time

  • Gibica (around 5th century), the legendary father of the Burgundian kings of the Nibelungenlied as the Dankrad
  • Tank bike, abbot of Prüm Abbey (810 - 829)
  • Tankred of Bologna (around 1185–1234 / 36), law teacher in Bologna
  • Tankred von Hauteville († 1041), Norman nobleman of the 11th century, whose sons founded empires in southern Italy and Sicily, ancestor of the Hauteville family.
  • Tankred of Hazart († after 1170), lord of Azaz in the Principality of Antioch
  • Tankred of Lecce (around 1138–1194), King of Sicily
  • Tankred of Tiberias (1072–1112), Prince of Galilee

Contemporary namesake