Alboin ( 530s – June 28, 572 ) was king of the Lombards from about 560 until 572.

It was organized by the king's foster brother, Helmichis, with the support of Alboin's wife, Rosamund, daughter of the Gepid king whom Alboin had killed some years earlier.

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.

After the battle, according to a tradition reported by Paul the Deacon, to be granted the right to sit at his father's table, Alboin had to ask for the hospitality of a foreign king and have him donate his weapons, as was customary.

As was customary among the Lombards, Alboin took the crown after an election by the tribe's freemen, who traditionally selected the king from the dead sovereign's clan.

The Gepids were defeated in the ensuing battle, their king slain by Alboin, and Cunimund's daughter Rosamund taken captive, according to references in the Origo.

The Lombard king Audoin defeated the Gepid leader Thurisind in 551 or 552 ; his successor Alboin eventually destroyed the Gepids at the Battle of Asfeld in 567.

In 560 a new, energetic king emerged: Alboin, who defeated the neighboring Gepidae, made them his subjects, and, in 566, married the daughter of their king Cunimund, Rosamund .< BR > In the spring of 568, King Alboin led the Lombard migration into Italy :< BR >

* Alboin succeeds his father Audoin as king of the Lombards.

* Cleph succeeds Alboin as king of the Lombards.

After the Avars and the neighbouring tribe of the Lombards had combined to destroy the Gepids, from whom Justin had obtained the Danube fortress of Sirmium, Avar pressure caused the Lombards to migrate West, and in 568 they invaded Italy under their king Alboin.

He was succeeded by Desiderius as king of the Lombards and by Alboin as duke of Spoleto.

In 568, the Lombards under their king Alboin, together with other Germanic allies, invaded northern Italy.

The Castle's attribution to the Lombard king of Alboin has no historical evidence

* Rosamund ( Lombard ), wife and murderer of Alboin, king of the Lombards

During his reign the Lombards ended their migrations by settling in Italy, the northern part of which Alboin conquered between 569 and 572.

Thus in 565 or 566 Justinian's successor Justin II sent his son-in-law Baduarius as magister militum ( field commander ) to lead a Byzantine army against Alboin in support of Cunimund, ending in the Lombards ' complete defeat.

Faced with the possibility of annihilation, Alboin made an alliance in 566 with the Avars under Bayan I, at the expense of some tough conditions ; the Avars demanded a tenth of the Lombards ' cattle, half of the war booty, and on the war's conclusion all of the lands held by the Gepids.

Cunimund attempted to prevent the two armies joining up by moving against the Lombards and clashing with Alboin somewhere between the Tibiscus and Danube rivers.

Historians consider this the decisive factor in convincing Alboin to undertake a migration, even though there are indications that before the war with the Gepids a decision was maturing to leave for Italy, a country thousands of Lombards had seen in the 550s when hired by the Byzantines to fight in the Gothic War.

Nevertheless the Lombards viewed Italy as a rich land which promised great booty, assets Alboin used to gather together a horde which included not only Lombards but many other peoples of the region, including Heruli, Suebi, Gepids, Thuringii, Bulgars, Sarmatians, the remaining Romans and a few Ostrogoths.

The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

By the conditions accepted in the treaty, the Avars were to take possession of Pannonia and the Lombards were promised military support in Italy should the need arise ; also, for a period of 200 years the Lombards were to maintain the right to reclaim their former territories if the plan to conquer Italy failed, thus leaving Alboin with an alternative open.

In 569, some Saxons accompanied the Lombards into Italy under the leadership of Alboin and settled there.

* April 1 – King Alboin leads the Lombards into Italy ; refugees fleeing from them go on to found Venice.

* Alboin, King of the Lombards, a Germanic tribe that invaded northern Italy in 569.

* Invasion by the Lombards of northern Italy under Alboin.

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The country was so ravaged by war that any return to normal life proved impossible, and only three years after his death most of the country was conquered by Alboin of the Lombards, who absorbed the remaining Ostrogothic population.

The period of Alboin's reign as king in Pannonia following the death of his father, Audoin, was one of confrontation and conflict between the Lombards and their main neighbors, the Gepids.

He became abbot of San Vicenzo on the Volturno in South Italy in the time of Desiderius, king of the Lombards.

However, the Codex Gothanus writes that the Lombards were subjected by the Saxons around 300, but rose up against the Saxons with their king Agelmund.

Liutprand's successor Aistulf conquered Ravenna for the Lombards for the first time, but was subsequently defeated by the king of the Franks Pippin III, called by the Pope, and had to leave it.

Shortly after Adrian's accession the territory ruled by the papacy was invaded by Desiderius, king of the Lombards, and Adrian was compelled to seek the assistance of the Frankish king Charlemagne, who entered Italy with a large army.

After taking the town, he banished the Lombard king to the Abbey of Corbie in France, and adopted the title " King of the Lombards " himself.

Gregory attempted to remain on good diplomatic terms with the Lombards, and especially with their king, Liutprand.

He ordered the Pope to expel the Venetians from the Pentapolis along the Adriatic coast, and Charlemagne's own son Pepin of Italy, king of the Lombards under the authority of his father, embarked on a siege of Venice itself.

* 568: Lombards invade Italy and establish a federation of dukedoms under a king.

* Perctarit, king of the Lombards

* Gerberga, the widow of Carloman, flees to Desiderius, the king of the Lombards.

* Rothari marries Queen Gundeparga, and succeeds Arioald as king of the Lombards.

* Arioald, king of the Lombards

* Arioald succeeds his brother-in-law Adaloald as king of the Lombards ( approximate date ).

* Adaloald, king of the Lombards ( approximate date )

* February – Hildeprand succeeds Liutprand as king of the Lombards.

* October – Ratchis succeeds Hildeprand as king of the Lombards.

* February – Liutprand, king of the Lombards

* August – Hildeprand, king of the Lombards

* June – Aistulf succeeds his brother, Ratchis as king of the Lombards.

* Desiderius succeeds Aistulf as king of the Lombards.

* December – Aistulf, king of the Lombards