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Jun 14, 2024 · Liutprand is often regarded as one of the greatest Lombard kings. His long reign was marked by significant military and political achievements. Liutprand expanded Lombard territories, notably conquering parts of the Exarchate of Ravenna, and successfully defending his kingdom against external threats.
3 days ago · Italy - Lombards, Kingdom, Charlemagne: King Authari ensured the survival of the Lombards, threatened as they were by both the Byzantines and the Franks. The last Frankish invasion, in 590, probably resulted in some sort of Frankish supremacy; the Lombards payed tribute, at least for a time, and sent detachments to fight in the Frankish army as ...
3 days ago · Charlemagne (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə m eɪ n, ˌ ʃ ɑːr l ə ˈ m eɪ n / SHAR-lə-mayn, - MAYN; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
Jun 28, 2024 · Rerum italicarum scriptores ab anno æræ christianæ quingentesimo ad millesimumquingentesimum is a collection of texts which are sources for Italian history from the 6th to the 15th century, compiled in the 18th century by Ludovico Antonio Muratori . Muratori's work became a landmark in historiographical methodology.
3 days ago · Italy - Lombards, Byzantines, Unification: In 568–569 a different Germanic tribe, the Lombards, invaded Italy under their king, Alboin (c. 565–572). They came from Pannonia (modern western Hungary), which had itself been a Roman province.
Jun 23, 2024 · A courier of the King of England passed this way to-day going Milan in great haste to Rome. He said there were great negotiations on foot between that king and the Duke of Burgundy to pass into Normandy against the King of France, and that the Normans are very much afraid.
1 day ago · To them, in immediate succession, followed the enterprising Lombards, a term including the merchants and goldsmiths of Genoa, Florence, and Venice. Utterly blind to all sense of true liberty and justice, the strong-handed king seems to have resolved to squeeze and crush them, as he had squeezed and crushed their unfortunate predecessors.
