Lombards in a sentence

According to a controversial tradition reported by several medieval sources, Narses, out of spite for having been removed by Justinian's successor Justin II, called the Lombards to Italy.

After taking the town, he banished the Lombard king to the Abbey of Corbie in France, and adopted the title "King of the Lombards" himself.

After this, Eutychius reached an uneasy truce with Gregory, and the pope in return forged a temporary truce between the Lombards and the Byzantines.

After this their borders with Italy (ruled by the Lombards since 568) and Visigothic Septimania remained fairly stable.

And because, after God, we have turned to you, the Lombards deride and oppress us.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, p. 217; Florence of Worcester, p. 145 Runestones were raised in Sweden in memory of warriors who died in Langbarðaland ( Land of the Lombards ), the Old Norse name for southern Italy.

Art During their nomadic phase, the Lombards primarily created art that was easily carried with them, like arms and jewellery.

As a result, the Gepids ceased to exist as an independent people, and were partly absorbed by the Lombards and the Avars.

As for the offering of the skull to Rosamund, that may have been a ritual request of complete submission of the queen and her people to the Lombards, and thus a cause of shame or humiliation.

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.

Because the East could offer no direct aid, Adrian then looked to the Franks to offset the power of the Lombards.

But within a few years of Justinian's death, Byzantine possessions in Italy were greatly reduced by the Lombards who settled in the peninsula.

Christianisation The Lombards were first touched by Christianity while still in Pannonia, but only touched: Their conversion and Christianisation was largely nominal and far from complete.

Christie 1998, pp. 73, 76 The first town to fall into the Lombards' hands was Forum Iulii (Cividale del Friuli), the seat of the local magister militum.

Complete emancipation appears to have been granted only among the Franks and the Lombards.

Coronation of Charlemagne Charlemagne's father, Pepin, defended the papacy against the Lombards and issued the Donation of Pepin, which granted the land around Rome to the pope as a fief.

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.

Famine followed the devastating Lombards, and from the few words the Liber Pontificalis has about Benedict, we gather that he died in the midst of his efforts to cope with these difficulties.

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.

Hartmann, II, pt I, 5. However, the Codex Gothanus states that the Lombards were subjected by the Saxons around 300 but rose up against them under their first king, Agelmund, who ruled for 30 years.