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Gambara is characterized as phitonissa in Latin which means 'priestess' or 'sorceress', and as sibylla, i.e. 'seeress'. [4] Pohl comments that Gambara lived in a world and era where prophecy was important, and not being a virgin like Veleda, she combined the roles of priestess, wise woman, mother and queen. [32]
The Iron Crown of Lombardy (Corona Ferrea), that was used for the coronation of the Lombard kings and the kings of Italy thereafter for centuries, was the discovery of Theodelinda, a Lombard queen. The queens consort of the Lombards were the wives of the Lombardic kings who ruled that Germanic people from early in the sixth century until the ...
The Origo Gentis Langobardorum (Latin for "Origin of the tribe of the Lombards") is a short, 7th-century AD Latin account offering a founding myth of the Longobard people. The first part describes the origin and naming of the Lombards, the following text more resembles a king-list, up until the rule of Perctarit (672–688).
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The primary sources for the Lombard kings before the Frankish conquest are the anonymous 7th-century Origo Gentis Langobardorum and the 8th-century Historia Langobardorum of Paul the Deacon. The earliest kings (the pre-Lethings) listed in the Origo are almost certainly legendary. They purportedly reigned during the Migration Period. The first ...
Paola Gambara Costa (3 March 1463 - 24 January 1515) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. [1] She was born to nobles and married in 1475 to the nobleman Lodovico Antonio Costa - and had one child - who soon acquired a mistress and chastised her for her generous nature towards the poor and ill.
Authorities have identified the woman who burned to death after she was set on fire inside a New York City subway train as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam.
Gundeberga or Gundeperga, (c. 591- after 653), was queen of the Lombards in 626-652 by marriage to the kings Arioald, (king of the Lombards; 626-636) and his successor Rothari, (king of the Lombards; 636-652). [1] She acted as Regent during the minority of her stepson Rodoald after the death of her second husband in 652. [2]