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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Alboin , d. 572?, first Lombard king in Italy (569-572?). With the Avars he defeated the Gepidae (see Germans ). He then led (568) an army across the Alps into Italy, took (569) Milan, and after a three-year siege conquered Pavia, which became his capital. He won most of N and central Italy from the Byzantines (see Lombards ). According to a legend probably based on fact, he was murdered at the instigation of his wife, Rosamond . Author not available, ALBOIN. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Rosamond
, fl. c.570, wife of the Lombard king Alboin . The daughter of King Kunimund of the Gepidae, a Germanic people, she was captured by Alboin, who had defeated and killed her father. When Alboin forced her to drink from a cup made from her... Read more

Justin II
...resumed the wars with Persia. During his reign Slavs and Avars attacked the empire, and Italy was invaded by the Lombards under Alboin . He severely persecuted the Monophysites. Subject to fits of insanity, he adopted (574) the general Tiberius as his son. Tiberius... Read more

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	Jack Palance ; ...gedreht hatte, genau dort, in Cinecitt oder auch anderswo. Godard wusste genauer Bescheid; vielleicht hatte er Palance als "Alboin, Knig der Langobarden" gesehen, als "Revak, der Sklave von Karthago", in dem Bibelfilm "Barabbas" oder in "Die Mongolen", in... Read more
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	Eleonora Rossi-Drago ; ...Zweiten Weltkrieg ("Liebe, Frauen und Soldaten", 1953), im 18. Jahrhundert ("Napoleon", 1954) oder zur Zeit der Vlkerwanderung ("Alboin, Knig der Langobarden", 1961) spielten. In Julien Duviviers Literaturverfilmung "Der Fall Maurizius" (1953) ist sie jene Frau... Read more

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