TANCREDI di LECCE. – Norman prince, illegitimate son of Ruggero di Puglia and Emma of the counts of Lecce, himself invested in 1149 with the title of count of Lecce.
In 1154 he took refuge in Constantinople, fearing the intrigues of Guglielmo I, who recognized in him a possible claimant to the crown, notwithstanding his illegitimacy. He returned to his homeland after 1166 and, favoured by Guglielmo II, gained, because of his moral qualities and despite his unfortunate physical appearance, the sympathies of the nobility of the Kingdom, which in 1189 set him against Enrico VI, to whom the crown and the Kingdom of Sicily were to pass as his wife Costanza’s inheritance. Crowned in Palermo in 1190, T. sought allies among Enrico VI’s enemies in Italy, Germany, England, and the East. The armies that Enrico VI raised against him suffered heavy losses from epidemics and military defeats, but T.’s death in 1194 and the succession to the crown of the young Guglielmo III favoured Enrico VI’s final success.
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