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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).
Iron Crown of Lombardy, used in Italian coronations from the Lombard era to the 19th century. Queen of Italy (regina Italiae in Latin and regina d'Italia in Italian) is a title adopted by many spouses of the rulers of the Italian peninsula after the fall of the Roman Empire. The details of where and how the ruling kings ruled are in the article ...
as Queen consort the Lombards 781 as co-Queen consort the Lombards: 30 April 783 Fastrada de Franconie: Raoul III de Franconie et d'Aéda de Bavière: 765 784 as sole-Queen consort of the Franks and co-Queen consort the Lombards: 10 October 794 Luitgard de Sundgau: Luitfrid II, Count of Sundgau: 776 794 as sole-Queen consort of the Franks and ...
Possibly Old English: Ælfwine. [47] King of the Lombards (died 572). [48] First element *alb-("elf"), second element *wini-("friend"). [49] King of the Lombards. He goes as a young warrior to the Gepid king Thurisind, who spares him as a guest even though Alboin has killed his son Turismod.
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 ...
Sculpture of the Germanic seeress Veleda, by Hippolyte Maindron, 1844, in Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.. Aside from the names of individuals, Roman era accounts do not contain information about how the early Germanic peoples referred to them, but sixth century Goth scholar Jordanes reported in his Getica that the early Goths had called their seeresses haliurunnae (Goth-Latin). [2]