Kings of the Lombards

The Kingdom of the Lombards played a major role in early Venetian history, as it was the Lombard invasion of Italy in 568 which started the migration of the Veneti from the mainland into the settlements of the lagoons.

• Aldoin (?–565) was king of the Lombards from 546 to 565, and led the Lombards to Pannonia in 541 as regent for the previous king, who Aldoin later killed.
• Alboin (530s–572) was king of the Lombards from about 560 until 572, and led the first Lombard invasion of Italy in 568.
• Cleph (572–574).
• — interregnum —
• Authari (584–590).
• Agilulf (c.555–616) was a Lombard Duke of Turin and king of the Lombards from 591 until 616.
• Adaloald (c. 616–c. 626).
• Arioald (c. 626–636).
• Rothari (c. 606–652) was duke of Brescia, and king of the Lombards from 636 to 652. He was an Arian and very active militarily against the Exarchate.
• Rodoald (652–653).
• Aripert I (653–661).
• Perctarit and Godepert (661–662).
• Grimoald (also Grimwald; †671) was Lombard Duke of Benevento from 647 to 662, and King of the Lombards from 662 to 671.
• Garibald (671).
• Perctarit (671–688) (restored from exile).
• Alahis (688–689).
• Cunipert (also Cunibert or Cunincpert) was king of the Lombards from 688 to 700.
• Liutpert (700–701).
• Raginpert (701).
• Aripert II (701–712).
• Ansprand (712).
• Liutprand (c.680–744) was king of the Lombards from 712 to 744. During his reign, he fought wars with Byzantine over Ravenna, and donated lands at Sutri to the Pope, leading to the creation of the Papal State.
• Hildeprand (†744) was the king of the Lombards with Luitprand from 737, but was deposed by Ratchis immediately after the death of Luitprand in 744.
• Ratchis († after 757) was the Duke of Friuli (739–744) and King of the Lombards (744–749).
• Aistulf (†756) was Duke of Friuli from 744, and King of the Lombards from 749 until his death in 756. He attacked the Byzantine dominions repeatedly, including Ravenna and Rome.
• Desiderius (c. 720–786) was the last king of the Lombards, from 756 until the Frankish conquest of Pavia in 774.

Frankish kings

• Charlemagne (748–814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Roman Emperor (de facto, of the Carolingian Empire) from 800.
• Pepin (c.773-8 10) was the second son of Charlemagne, and King of the Lombards, later King of Italy, from 781.
• Bernard (810–818)
• Lothair I (795–855) was emperor of the Caroligian Empire (817–855), and King of Italy (818–855). The Pactum Lotharii from 840 was from his reign.
• Louis II (839–875)

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More about the Lombards

• Early Venice
• The Lombard Invasion
• Venetia et Histria
• Did Narses invite the Lombards?
• The conquest of Venetia
• Venetian refugees
• The Medieval Landscape
• Lagoon settlements in the early Middle Ages

• Chronology of the Lombard invasion

• Episode 28 — The early sources
• Episode 29 — The Lombard Invasion
• Episode 30 — Venetia Maritima

• The Historia Langobardorum by Paul the Deacon
  • The Justinian plague
  • Alboin and Rosamund
  • The invasion of Venetia
  • The conquest of Venetia