High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tancred (1075 – December 5 or December 12, 1112) was a Norman leader of the First Crusade who later became Prince of Galilee and regent of the Principality of Antioch. Tancred had a great-grandfather with the same name, Tancred of Hauteville, however since both Tancreds were from a place named Hauteville, they may be confused.