Alboin in a sentence

It was in this palace that Alboin was killed on June 28, 572. In the account given by Paul the Deacon, the most detailed narrative on Alboin's death, history and saga intermingle almost inextricably.

Additionally, the difficulties encountered by Alboin in building a solid political entity resulted from a lack of imperial legitimacy, as unlike the Ostrogoths, they had not entered Italy as foederati but as enemies of the Empire.

After gathering a large coalition of peoples, Alboin crossed the Julian Alps in 568, entering an almost undefended Italy.

Alboin "invited her to drink merrily with her father".

Alboin's problems in maintaining control over his people worsened during the siege of Ticinum.

Alboin's sword was also removed, leaving him defenceless when Peredeo entered his room and killed him.

Alboin was assassinated on June 28, 572, in a coup d'état instigated by the Byzantines.

A sign of this anxiety can also be seen in the decision taken by Alboin to ravage Pannonia, which created a safety zone between the Lombards and the Avars.

Cunimund attempted to prevent the two armies joining up by moving against the Lombards and clashing with Alboin somewhere between the Tibiscus and Danube rivers.

Death Alboin is killed by Peredeo while Rosamund steals his sword, in a 19th-century painting by Charles Landseer In her plan to kill her husband she found an ally in Helmichis, the king's foster brother and spatharius (arms bearer).

During a great feast, Alboin gets drunk and orders his wife Rosamund to drink from his cup, made from the skull of his father-in-law Cunimund after he had slain him in 567 and married Rosamund.

For many centuries following his death Alboin's heroism and his success in battle were celebrated in Saxon and Bavarian epic poetry.

Gasparri 1990, pp. 24–25 It has been speculated that Alboin's migration could have been partly the result of a call from surviving Ostrogoths in Italy.

Goffart 1988, p. 393 Alboin's death had a lasting impact, as it deprived the Lombards of the only leader they had that could have kept together the newborn Germanic entity.

Goffart notes other similar doubtful stories in the Historia and calls its account of Alboin's demise "a suitably ironic tale of the doings of depraved humanity".

However, the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire interprets events and sources differently, believing that Alboin married Chlothsind when already a king in or shortly before 561, the year of Chlothar's death.

In his tale it is told how Alboin married the daughter of a man he had slain, and how she waited for a suitable occasion for revenge, eventually poisoning him.

In this context, Stefano Gasparri and Wilfried Menghen see in Cunimund's skull cup the sign of nomadic cultural influences on the Lombards: by drinking from his enemy's skull Alboin was taking his vital strength.

It also connected Alboin and his people to the Gothic heritage, and in this way obtain the support of the Ostrogoths serving in the Byzantine army as foederati.

Italy and Provence In 569, some Saxons accompanied the Lombards into Italy under the leadership of Alboin and settled there.