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She was married first in 588 to Authari, king of the Lombards, son of king Cleph.
Authari died in 590.
Theodelinda was allowed to pick Agilulf as her next husband and Authari's successor in 591.
She thereafter exerted much influence in restoring Nicene Christianity ( the mainstream, later split in 1054 by the East-West Schism in Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy ) to a position of primacy in Italy against its rival, Arian Christianity.
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