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Alboin was probably born in the 530s in Pannonia, the son of Audoin and his wife, Rodelinda.
She may have been the niece of King Theodoric and betrothed to Audoin through the mediation of Emperor Justinian.
Like his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.
Alboin took as his first wife the Catholic Chlothsind, daughter of the Frankish King Chlothar.
This marriage, which took place soon after the death of the Frankish ruler Theudebald in 555, is thought to reflect Audoin's decision to distance himself from the Byzantines, traditional allies of the Lombards, who had been lukewarm when it came to supporting Audoin against the Gepids.
The new Frankish alliance was important because of the Franks ' known hostility to the Byzantine empire, providing the Lombards with more than one option.
However, the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire interprets events and sources differently, believing that Alboin married Chlothsind when already a king in or shortly before 561, the year of Chlothar's death.

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