1) Lombard king
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The period of Alboin`s reign as king in Pannonia following the death of his father, Audoin, was one of confrontation and conflict between the Lombards and their main neighbors, the Gepids. The Gepids initially gained the upper hand, but in 567, thanks to his alliance with the Avars, Alboin inflicted a decisive defeat on his enemies, whose lands t....
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king of the Germanic Lombards whose exceptional military and political skills enabled him to conquer northern Italy.[1 related articles]
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(lived 6th century) King of the
Lombards about 561-573. At that time the Lombards were settled north of the Alps. Early in his reign he attacked the Gepidae, a Germanic tribe occupying present-day Romania, killing...
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Alboin was King of the Lombards from 561. He died in 573 or 574 when he was assassinated at the orders of his wife Rosamond. He succeeded his father Audoin in 561, and reigned in Noricum and Pannonia. Narses, the general of Justinian, sought his alliance, and received his aid, in the war against Totila, king of the Ostrogoths. Alboin afterwards (in...
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died a.d. 573?, king of the Langobards 561?–573?
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