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ALBOIN (d. 572 or 573)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 512 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBOIN (d. 572 or 573)  , See also:king of the See also:Lombards, and conqueror of See also:Italy, succeeded his See also:father Audoin about 565 . The Lombards were at that See also:time dwelling in See also:Noricum and See also:Pannonia (archduchy of See also:Austria, See also:Styria and See also:Hungary, See also:west of the See also:Danube) . In See also:alliance with the See also:Avars, and See also:Asiatic See also:people who had invaded central See also:Europe, See also:Alboin defeated the Gepidae, a powerful nation on his eastern frontier, slew their king Cunimund, whose See also:skull he fashioned into a drinking-See also:cup, and whose daughter Rosamund he carried off and made his wife . Three years later (in 568), on the alleged invitation.of See also:Narses (q.v.), who was irritated by the treatment he had received from the See also:emperor See also:Justin II., Alboin invaded Italy, probably marching over the pass of the Predil . He overran See also:Venetia and the wide See also:district which we now See also:call See also:Lombardy, See also:meeting with but feeble resistance till he came to the See also:city of See also:Ticinum (See also:Pavia), which for three years (569–572) kept the Lombards at See also:bay . While this See also:siege was in progress Alboin was also engaged in other parts of Italy, and at its See also:close he was probably See also:master of Lombardy, See also:Piedmont and See also:Tuscany, as well as of the regions which afterwards went by the name of the duchies of See also:Spoleto and See also:Benevento . In 572 or 573, how-ever, he was assassinated by his See also:chamberlain Peredeo at the instigation of See also:Queen Rosamund, whom Alboin had grievously insulted by forcing her to drink See also:wine out of her father's skull . After his See also:death and the See also:short reign of his successor Cleph the Lombards remained for more than ten years in a See also:state of anarchy . The authorities for the See also:history of Alboin are See also:Procopius, See also:Paulus Diaconus and Agnellus (in his history of the See also:church of See also:Ravenna) .

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