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The History of the Lombards or the History of the Langobards (Latin: Historia Langobardorum) is the chief work by Paul the Deacon, written in the late 8th century. This incomplete history in six books was written after 787 and at any rate no later than 796, maybe at Montecassino .
A 10th-century codex of Origo gentis Langobardorum from Reims, now in Berlin An 11th-century illustrated codex of Origo gentis Langobardorum, now in Salerno.. 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.
Apart from the Hellenized south (Naples, Calabria and Sicily), the Lombards had overrun Italy within the first generation except for Venice and Istria in the northeast, and Rome, Ravenna and the Pentapolis in Central Italy.
A legendary account of Lombard origins, history, and practices is the Historia Langobardorum (History of the Lombards) of Paul the Deacon, written in the eighth century. Paul's chief source for Lombard origins, however, is the seventh-century Origo Gentis Langobardorum (Origin of the Lombard People).
The first history of the Lombards, the lost Historiola from 610, was commissioned by Theodelinda, the granddaughter of Wacho who had led the tribe into Pannonia, and she had her palace in Monza decorated with scenes from the Lombard past.
The Iron Crown of Lombardy, displayed in the Cathedral of Monza. 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.
Marepaphias (also mar(e)pahis) was a Lombard title of Germanic origin meaning "master of the horse", probably somewhat analogous to the Latin title comes stabuli or constable.
Secundus of Trent or Secundus of Non authored History of the Acts of the Langobards, up to 612.. Secundus is first mentioned in the letters of Pope Gregory I for January 596, at which time Secundus served archbishop Marinianus of then-Byzantine Ravenna as deacon. [1]