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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.
Perctarit (also Berthari) (died 688) was the first Catholic king of the Lombards who lead a religiously divided kingdom during the 7th Century.He ruled from 661 to 662 the first time and later from 671 to 688.
Cleph [1] (also Clef, Clepho, or Kleph) was king of the Lombards from 572 to 574.. He succeeded Alboin, to whom he was not related by blood.He was a violent and terrifying figure to the Romans and Byzantines struggling to maintain control of the Italian Peninsula.
Aripert I (also spelled Aribert) was king of the Lombards (653–661) in Italy. He was the son of Gundoald, Duke of Asti , who had crossed the Alps from Bavaria with his sister Theodelinda . As a relative of the Bavarian ducal house, his was called the Bavarian Dynasty .
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.
Only during the reigns of Grimoald (r. 662–671) and the kings from Liutprand (r. 712–744) on was the duchy closely tied to the Kingdom of the Lombards. After the fall of the in 774, the duchy became the sole Lombard territory which continued to exist as a rump state , maintaining its de facto independence for nearly 300 years as 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).
Godepert (also Gundipert, Godebert, Godipert, Godpert, Gotebert, Gotbert, Gotpert, Gosbert, or Gottbert) was king of the Lombards (crowned 661), eldest son and successor of Aripert I. He was an Arian who governed from the ancient capital, Pavia , while his brother, Perctarit , a Roman Catholic , governed from Milan .