Jan 14
The Assassination of Alboin, King of the Lombards by Charles Landseer
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The Assassination of Alboin, King of the Lombards by Charles Landseer
The story of Rosmunda of the Gepids. also at the >>>LINK<<<
Map of Italy at the Time of the Lombards
The Langobards
The Langobards/Lombards/Longobards are an Italic-Germanic tribe with origins in southern Scandinavia around the first centuries B.C. and A.D.
Their steady migration southward can be retraced by archaeological artifacts, which show their Scandinavian origin.
Their early connections to (the geographical city of) Rome made them very influential in the Western Roman world; on financial, military, religious but also law practice and kingship levels.
The Lombards were quickly christened and were the founding fathers of many religious institutions in northern Italy, ruled Italy, and adapted/adopted Roman Law, making for a culturally rich period. Their capital Pavia is located in the Italian province of Lombardy, named after, you guessed it.
It has to be said (it sounds like a fake fact but it is not) that their name means “Long Beards”. In many European languages the descriptive name can be heard in “Langobard” also written as “Longobard”.
Image:
Langobardic radiate headed bow brooch
Found in: Chiusi - Tuscany, Italy
Glass drinking horn, Lombardic, 6th-7th century AD
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You know who gives off Joffrey Baratheon marries Sansa Stark vibes? Queen Rosmund (daughter of Cunimund, king of the Gepids), and Alboin, king of the Lombards
-Alboin took her as his wife. Alboin was noted for his cruelty towards her; his most famous act of cruelty was reported by Paulus Diaconus, who states that at a royal banquet in Verona, Alboin forced her to drink from the skull of her dead father (which he carried around his belt), inviting her "to drink merrily with her father".
-The king turned to Grand Maester Pycelle. "And I want Robb Stark's head too. Write to Lord Frey and tell him. The king commands. I'm going to have it served to Sansa at my wedding feast."
A STORM OF SWORDS - TYRION VI
Rosmund later helped assassinate the king. Unlike Sansa she helped plot it.
4 avril 774 : Charlemagne confirme la donation par son père de territoires à l’Église romaine ➽ http://bit.ly/Charlemagne-Etats-Pontificaux Lors du voyage en France du pape Étienne II (752-757) en 754, le roi Pépin le Bref, père du futur Charlemagne, avait reçu le pontife dans sa "villa" de Quierzy (Aisne), et signé le 14 avril, jour de Pâques, un traité l’engageant à créer les États pontificaux
Charles Landseer, R.A. (English, 1799-1879) The Assassination of Alboin, King of the Lombards, n.d.