Terme de Glossaire

Lombards

A Germanic people which established itself in Pannonia at the end of the 5th century and conquered the Po River plain in the following century, from which comes the name ‘Lombardy’, designating this region in the north of Italy. The Lombards were in constant conflict with the Byzantines and the Popes. Summoned by Pope Stephen II to defend Rome from the Lombard threat, Pippin III the Short and Charlemagne carried out several victorious expeditions against them. In 774, Charlemagne deposed the last Lombard King, Desiderius (756-774), and adopted the Lombard crown.

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