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The kings of the Lombards or reges Langobardorum (singular rex Langobardorum) were the monarchs of the Lombard people from the early 6th century until the Lombardic identity became lost in the 9th and 10th centuries. After 774, the kings were not Lombards, but Franks.
In the spring of 568 the Lombards, led by King Alboin, moved from Pannonia and quickly overwhelmed the small Byzantine army left by Narses to guard Italy. The Lombard arrival broke the political unity of the Italian Peninsula for the first time since the Roman conquest (between the 3rd and 2nd century BC). The peninsula was now torn between ...
List of kings of the Lombards This page was last edited on 9 June 2024, at 22:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
This incomplete history in six books was written after 787 and at any rate no later than 796, maybe at Montecassino. [4] The history covers the story of the Lombards from their mythical origins to the death of King Liutprand in 743, and contains much information about the Eastern Roman empire, the Franks, and others. The story is told from the ...
Azzara and Gasparri, in a recent critical edition of Lombard laws, posit that the Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani is based in part on the Origo gentis langobardorum, a position supported by the Chronicon's initial editor, Friedrich Bluhme, who placed them side by side in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. [11]
Kings of the Lombards (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Kingdom of the Lombards" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Liutprand was the king of the Lombards from 712 to 744 and is chiefly remembered for his multiple phases of law-giving, in fifteen separate sessions from 713 to 735 inclusive, and his long reign, which brought him into a series of conflicts, mostly successful, with most of Italy.
The Lombards are an obscure people before their defeat of the Heruli in 510. The Bavarians likewise are not otherwise mentioned in any text before Jordanes' Getica in or shortly after 551. This suggests that the text was composed between 510 and 531. [9] Krusch was correct, however, regarding the date of the Roman king list, which is a later ...