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Aistulf (749–756) followed Liutprand’s policies to their logical conclusion: he conquered Ravenna in 751, ending the exarchate; he ruled in Spoleto without a duke from 751 to 756; and in 752 he began to move on Rome, demanding tribute from the pope.
Liutprand was a Lombard king of Italy whose long and prosperous reign was a period of expansion and consolidation for the Lombards. From his position as a Lombard chief, Liutprand gained the throne in 712, when revolution ended a succession of weak kings. He used to his advantage the Iconoclastic.
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At the opening of Liutprand's reign in 712, relations between the Lombard kingdom and Bavaria were good, rendering one of his chief allies the Agilolfing Theodo I, effectively the Frankish duke of Bavaria. Consequently, Liutprand took to wife the young Agilolfing, Guntrud, in 715.
Jan 28, 2021 · The prologues to the laws of the early medieval Lombard king, Liutprand (king from 712, d. 744), each introduce new sets of legislation that were issued across the course of the first twenty-three years of his reign, in fifteen separate sessions dating from February 28, 713 to March 1, 735.
Apr 12, 2020 · Thanks to Liutprand’s sharp (and biased) report, we have the chance to peer into the cultural prejudices which characterized the relationship between the eastern and the western hemispheres of Europe. Most interestingly, many of such prejudices take shape in the banqueting hall, where two different food cultures meet at table.
Sep 2, 2021 · Not wanting to meet the same violent ends of the late Kings Liutpert and Aripert, the newly-crowned King Liutprand evidently decided to lash out quite ruthlessly to perceived threats or opponents to his rule. In particular, one of the king’s kinsmen by the name of Rothari drew Liutprand’s suspicion.
Just when it seemed Aistulf was able to defeat all opposition on Italian soil, Pepin the Short, the old enemy of the usurpers of Liutprand's family, finally managed to overthrow the Merovingian dynasty in Gaul, deposing Childeric III and becoming king de jure as well as de facto.
