Tancred or Tankred is a
masculinegiven name of
Germanic origin that comes from thank- (thought) and -rath (counsel), meaning "well-thought advice". It was used in the
High Middle Ages mainly by the
Normans (see French
Tancrède) and especially associated with the
Hauteville family in
Italy.[1] It is rare today as a first name, but still common as a Norman surname: Tanqueray, Tanquerey, Tanqueret. Its
Italian form is Tancredi and in
Latin it is Tancredus. Its Italian
patronymic is also Tancredi.
^Alfonso Burgio, Dizionario dei nomi propri di persona (Rome: Hermes Edizioni, 1992), p. 327.
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