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 >

Rosamund Clifford ( before 1150 – c. 1176 ), often called " The Fair Rosamund " or the " Rose of the World ", was famed for her beauty and was a mistress of King Henry II of England, famous in English folklore.

Legend has attributed to Rosamund two of King Henry's favourite illegitimate sons: Geoffrey Plantagenet ( 1151 – 1212 ), Archbishop of York, and William Longespee ( 17 August before 1180 – 1226 ), Earl of Salisbury.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

Aided by the kind interference of Lady Harriet ( Rosamund Pike ), who has always recognized Molly's worth and charms, he finds himself pained at the thought of Molly with anyone else.

A notable feature was the inclusion of work by women writers and illustrators, among them Ella D ' Arcy and Ethel Colburn Mayne ( both also served as Harland's subeditors ), George Egerton, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Ada Leverson, Netta and Nellie Syrett, and Ethel Reed.

* Lady Rosamund Jane Frances Spencer-Churchill ( died 3 December 1920 ), married 12 July 1877 William Fellowes, 2nd Baron de Ramsey, by whom she had issue

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.

Some time before 568, Alboin's first wife Chlothsind died, and after his victory against Cunimund Alboin married Rosamund, to establish a bond with the remaining Gepids.

Alboin was murdered in 572 in Verona by a plot led by his wife, Rosamund, who later fled to Ravenna.

* Henry II of England begins living openly with his friend Rosamund Clifford, raising suspicions about their relationship & alienating Henry's wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine

Rosamund was the daughter of the marcher lord Walter de Clifford and his wife Margaret Isobel de Tosny ( referred to as " de Toeni " on the Page of her husband, Walter de Clifford ).

Walter granted the mill at Frampton to Godstow Abbey for the good of the souls of Rosamund and his wife Margaret.

:" After several years Tan Wilcoxon appeared from the West Indies with a new wife Rosamund and it was decided to unite Harry and Owen with their father and new “ mother ”.

Divorce proceedings were handled by his New York lawyers while he and Rosamund Lancaster Warburton ( 1897 – 1947 ), a former wife of an heir to the John Wanamaker department store fortune, waited discreetly away from the media at a home in the Parisian suburb of Passy, France.

* Rosamund, the narrator's current wife.

Hodson married his wife, Rosamund, soon after finishing in Follyfoot, and they had two daughters.

Conway had a wife, a son, and a daughter ( Margaret, Frank and Rosamund ) all of whom were killed in a plane crash.

The story follows Clement Musgrove back to his home on the Natchez Trace, where he lives with his daughter, Rosamund, and second wife, Salome.

Lionel has inherited Sir Oliver's possessions and even manages to befriend Sir John and become betrothed to Rosamund, who still believes Sir Oliver the murderer of her brother.

An account of the war by the Byzantine Theophylact Simocatta sentimentalises the reasons behind the conflict, claiming it originated with Alboin's vain courting and subsequent kidnapping of Cunimund's daughter Rosamund, that Alboin proceeded then to marry.

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.

Bayan crushed Cunimond's forces and made a cup from his defeated enemy's skull as a present ( and warning ) for his ally Alboin ( who is famously quoted as having forced Cunimond's daughter Rosamund, whom he had taken as war bride, to drink from it, sealing his own fate ).

The coup failed in the face of opposition from a majority of the Lombards, who elected Cleph as Alboin's successor, forcing Helmichis and Rosamund to flee to Ravenna under imperial protection.

His principal theological works are a commentary in three volumes on the Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ( Magister Sententiarum ), and the Summa Theologiae in two volumes.

Between 1220 and 1227, he wrote a Glossa in quatuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi ( A Gloss on the Four Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ), which was particularly important because it was the first time that a book other than the Bible was used as a textbook during biblical study.

Columbanus ( 540 – 23 November 615 ;, meaning " the white dove ") was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries on the European continent from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil ( in present-day France ) and Bobbio ( Italy ), and stands as an exemplar of Irish missionary activity in early medieval Europe.

* Etruscan mi ( I / me ), Sumerian ma ( I / me ) and Lombard mi ( I / me )

After unification a huge number of civil servants and soldiers recruited from all over the country introduced many more words and idioms from their home languages (" ciao " is derived from Venetian word " s-ciao " ( slave ), " panettone " comes from Lombard word " panatton " etc .).

The Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the Historia Langobardorum that the Lombards descended from a small tribe called the Winnili, dwelling in southern Scandinavia ( Scadanan ), who had migrated southward to seek new lands.

The Lombard reign began to recover only with Liutprand the Lombard ( king from 712 ), son of Ansprand and successor of the brutal Aripert II.

All these building are in northern Italy ( Langobardia major ), but by far the best-preserved Lombard structure is in southern Italy ( Langobardia minor ).

* Hallenbeck, Jan T. " Pavia and Rome: The Lombard Monarchy and the Papacy in the Eighth Century " Transactions of the American Philosophical Society New Series, 72. 4 ( 1982 ), pp. 1 – 186.

These include Milanese, Lombard, Brescian and other six-course types, as well as four-string ( one string per course ), twelve-string ( three strings per course ), and sixteen-string ( four strings per course ).

* Gianluca Raccagni, The Lombard League ( 1164 – 1225 ), Oxford University Press 2010.

* Bonvesin de la Riva writes the didactic-allegoric poemet Libro de le tre scritture ( Negra, Rubra, Aurea ), the first text in ancient Western Lombard language ( still similar to other Gallo-Italian languages ), and one of the first great literary works in Italy.

The traditional local languages are the various dialects of Lombard ( Western Lombard and Eastern Lombard ), as well as some dialects of Emilian, spoken in some parts of the provinces of Mantua, Pavia, and Cremona.

The numerous species of endemic flora ( the Lombard native species ), typical mainly of the Lake Como area, include some kinds of saxifrage, the Lombard garlic, groundsels bellflowers and the cottony bellflowers.

Lombardy counts many protected areas: the most important are the Stelvio National Park ( the largest Italian natural park ), with typically alpine wildlife: red deer, roe-deer, ibex, chamois, foxes, ermine and also golden eagles ; and the Ticino Valley Natural Park, instituted in 1974 on the Lombard side of the Ticino River to protect and conserve one of the last major examples of fluvial forest in Northern Italy.

The failed revolt ( 1009 – 1011 ) of the Lombard nobles Melus of Bari and his brother-in-law Dattus, against the Byzantine governorate, though it was firmly repressed at the Battle of Cannae ( 1018 ), offered their Norman adventurer allies a first foothold in the region.

Maio of Bari ( d. 1160 ), a Lombard merchant's son, was the third of the great admirals of Norman Sicily.

A Hollywood film titled Bolero ( 1934 ), starring Carole Lombard and George Raft, made major use of the theme.

Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior ( 1646 – 1717 ), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith ( née Turner ) ( 1643 – 1733 ), who were both Catholics.