See also:LIUDPRAND (LIUTPRAND, LUITPRAND) (c. 922-972)
, See also:Italian historian and author, See also:bishop of See also:Cremona, was See also:born towards the beginning of the See also:roth See also:century, of a See also:good Lombard See also:family
.
In 931 he entered the service of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Hugo of See also:Italy as See also:page; he afterwards See also:rose to a high position at the See also:court of Hugo's successor Berengar, having become See also:chancellor, and having been sent (949) on an See also:embassy to the See also:Byzantine court
.
Falling into disgrace with Berengar on his return, he attached himself to the See also:emperor See also:Otto I., whom in 961 he accompanied into Italy, and by whom in 962 he was made bishop of Cremona
.
He was frequently employed in See also:missions to the See also:pope, and in 968 to See also:Constantinople to demand for the younger Otto (afterwards Otto II.) the See also:hand of See also:Theophano, daughter of the emperor Nicephorus See also:Phocas
.
His See also:account of this embassy in the Relatio de Legatione Constantinopolitana is perhaps the most graphic and lively piece of See also:writing which has come down to us from the loth century
.
The detailed description of Constantinople and the Byzantine court is a document of rare value—though highly coloured by his See also:ill reception and offended dignity
.
Whether he returned in 971 with the embassy to bring Theophano or not is uncertain
.
See also:Liudprand died in 972
.
He wrote (I) Antapodoseos, seu rerum per Europam gestarum, Libri VI, an See also:historical narrative, See also:relating to the events from 887 to 949, compiled with the See also:object of avenging himself upon Berengar and Willa his See also:queen; (2) Historia Ottonis, a See also:work of greater impartiality and merit, unfortunately covering only the years from 96o to 964; and (3) the Relatio de Legatione Constantinopolitana (968-969)
.
All are to be found in the Monum
.
Germ
.
Hist. of See also:Pertz, and in the Rer
.
Ital
.
Script. of See also:Muratori; there is an edition by E
.
See also:Dummler (1877), and a partial See also:translation into See also:German, with an introduction by W
.
See also:Wattenbach, is given in the second See also:volume of the Geschichtsschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit (1853)
.
Compare Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen See also:im Mittelalter
.
Three other See also:works, entitled Adversaria, Chronicon, 606-960, and Opusculum de vitis Romanorum pontificum, are usually, but wrongly, assigned to Liudprand
.
An See also:English translation of the embassy to Constantinople is in Ernest See also:Henderson's Select Documents of the See also:Middle Ages (See also:Bohn See also:series, 1896)
.
A See also:complete bibliography is in A
.
See also:Potthast's Bib
!.
Hist
.
Medii Aevi (See also:Berlin, 1896)
.
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