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Theodelinda also spelled Theudelinde ( c. 570–628 AD), was a queen of the Lombards by marriage to two consecutive Lombard rulers, Autari and then Agilulf, and regent of Lombardia during the minority of her son Adaloald, and co-regent when he reached majority, from 616 to 626. For well over thirty years, she exercised influence across the ...
Queen Theodelinda. Theodelinda, daughter of Garibaldo, duke of Bavaria, and queen of the Lombards, is celebrated because of her instrumentality in converting the Arian Lombards to the Roman church. She was at first betrothed to Childebert, son of the haughty Brunehaut, but was rejected by her. She afterwards, in 589, married Autari, king of the ...
Theodelinda reigned as queen of Lombardy. She was born in 568 into the royal family of Bavaria, and as a young woman married King Autarie of Lombardy. Upon his death, she married Flavius Agiluphus of Pavia, but he also died young. Theodelinda did not marry again, instead choosing to hold the title queen-regent of Lombardy for her son alone.
Theodelinda, Queen of the Lombards (590-628), has been known for long to historians through the portrait depicted by Paul the Deacon in his Historia Langobardorum. However, as this was written some 150 years after the queen's death, its evidence needs to be treated with great caution. In this essay, the earliest contemporary evidence of ...
- Ross Balzaretti
- 1999
Other articles where Theodelinda is discussed: Italy: The Lombard kingdom, 584–774: …dynasty—the family of Agilulf’s wife, Theodelinda—dominated the succession; kings who were not members of this family, such as Rothari and Grimoald of Benevento (662–671), married into it. Grimoald was the only southern duke to claim the throne of Pavia; like Rothari, he fought the Byzantines and ...
Theodelinda built and endowed the basilica of St. John Baptist at Monza. After the death of Agilulf in 616, Adaloald succeeded with Theodelinda as regent. The date of her death was probably before 626 (Paul. Diac. iv. 41).
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Theodelinda also spelled Theudelinde, was a queen of the Lombards by marriage to two consecutive Lombard rulers, Autari and then Agilulf, and regent of Lombardia during the minority of her son Adaloald, and co-regent when he reached majority, from 616 to 626. For well over thirty years, she exercised influence across the Lombard realm, which comprised most of Italy between the Apennines and ...
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