Tancrède de Lecce
Tancrède de Lecce , born towards 1140 and died in Palermo in 1194 is a king of Sicily.
Wire bastard of the prince Roger de Hauteville, duke of Apulie, sons of the king Roger II of Sicily, and Emma de Lecce, girl of the count Achard II of Lecce, it will inherit this grandfather (before 1180) of the county of Lecce, in Apulie, from where his name of Tancrède de Lecce . Outlaw one moment of the kingdom normanno - sicilian under the surging reign of the king Guillaume the Bad, it lives with Byzance with others exiled of the kingdom.
Described by the chroniclers of its time as being a good military chief in spite of his small size, brave and intelligent, but ugly according to its principal detractor Pierre of Éboli, he claims with the Norman throne with dead without posterity legitimates of his cousin the king Guillaume II (1189), supported by the nobility against the claims of his aunt the princess Constance of Hauteville and her husband Henri Hohenstaufen. He manages to be made crown king with Palermo with the beginning of the year 1190 but its capacity remains however very fragile and king Tancrède of Sicily must fight against bands of Moslem rebels taken refuge in the mountains of the center of Sicily and subject the revolts of his vassal in his fields of southernmost Italy while air-tight and the attacks of the Germanic imperial forces .
Taken refuge in Salerno, Constance is captured by its partisans who initially keeps it captive in Palermo, then with Naples. It vainly tries to make recognize its legitimacy while making crown his Roger son under the name of Roger and tries even a bringing together with the Byzantine Empire, asking the hand of the girl of the Basileus Isaac Ange, the princess Helene Ange for her young person wire, but this one dies prematurely the same year in December 1193. It names then its other Guillaume wire, still child, Co-king and successor designated under the name of Guillaume, but Henri overcomes it with Catane and Tancrède, given up its supports dies shortly after in its palate of Palermo the February 20th 1194. Its death delivers the Norman kingdom to the Germanic Empire and puts an end to the dynasty Hauteville in Sicily.
The girl of Tancrède de Lecce, Marie de Lecce, accepted some of her goods, like the Principauté of Tarente and the county of Lecce in 1200, but they were confiscated to him in 1205. The county of Lecce however was restored with its descendants, the Brienne dukes of Athens.
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