Lombards
By: Nick m. , Xavier O, Brady K, Jennifer B.
Germanic Tribes
Lombards Territory
The map represents the Lombards territory and how much land they had in Italy. The green on the map represents how much land they had, and where it was located at.
The crest to Lombards
Legncy
Interesting facts of the Lombards
- Initially settled in Pannonia by the Emperor Justinian
- The last Lombard to rule as king of the Lombards was Desiderius.
- Germanic tribe that originated in Southern Sweden
Alboin Bio
Alboin, (died June 28, 572 or 573, Verona, Lombardy [Italy]),
Germanic Lombards whose exceptional military and political skills enabled him to
conquer northern Italy.
When Alboin succeeded his father, Audoin, about 565, the Lombards occupied
Noricum and Pannonia (now in Austria and western Hungary), while their long-
standing enemies the Gepidae bordered them on the east in Dacia (now
Hungary). Astutely allying himself with the Avars, the eastern neighbours of the
Gepidae, Alboin defeated his foes and killed their king, Cunimund. After the
death of his first wife, he forced Cunimund’s daughter Rosamund to marry him.
Wars against the Gepidae probably resumed thereafter nonetheless.
Alboin assembled adventurers from other Germanic tribes, including some
Saxons, and prepared his combined forces, together with their women and
children, for a migration across the Alps into Italy, which was held at that time by
the Byzantines. The severely disorganized and generally unprepared provinces
in northern Italy offered little resistance to the invading Lombards. Having swept
through Venice, Milan, Tuscany, and Benevento, in 572 or 573 Alboin conquered
Pavia, on the Ticino River, the future capital of the newly
created Lombard kingdom. According to tradition, Alboin was assassinated by
order of his wife Rosamund after he had forced her to follow the Lombard custom
of drinking from the skull of her slain father; the Byzantines seem to have had a
hand in the plot.
Citation: "Alboin | King of Lombardy." Encyclopedia Britannica
Online. Encyclopedia Britannica. Web. 11 Jan. 2016.