However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

However, the semi-independent Lombard Duchy of Benevento, under the expansionist duke Romuald II, resumed hostilities by capturing Cumae in 717, cutting Rome off from Naples.

However, Michael, in league with the Lombard king Desiderius, and the Duke of Rimini had imprisoned Leo, who had been elected first.

However, in 751 the Lombard king, Aistulf, succeeded in conquering Ravenna, thus ending Byzantine rule in northern Italy.

However it was, by the end of the year Bertrada and Charlemagne had successfully encircled Carloman: Charlemagne had married Desiderata, the daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius, Carloman's immediate eastern neighbor, and the marriage created an alliance between Charlemagne and the Lombards ; Bertrada had also secured for Charlemagne the friendship of Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria, her husband's nephew ; she had even attempted to secure Papal support for the marriage by arranging for Desiderius to cede to Rome certain territories to which the Papacy laid claim, although Pope Stephen III remained in theory hostile to an alliance between his allies the Franks and his enemies the Lombards, and in reality deeply conflicted between the threat the Lombards posed to him and the chance to dispose of the anti-Lombard Christopher the Primicerius, the dominant figure at the Papal court.

However, Hawks believed that Lombard was a brilliant actress who had yet to be unleashed on film.

However, in 1167 the city changed sides and joined the Lombard League.

However, the Lombard League did not survive this victory for long.

However, he soon ostracised his admiral, Stephen, whose wife was the sister of John the Eunuch, the highest ranking man at court, and, by publicly humiliating the leader of the Lombard contingent, Arduin, he caused them to desert him, with the Normans and Norsemen.

However, Charles invaded the Rhone valley with his brother Childebrand and a Lombard army and devastated the region.

However, certain stalwart clerics were unhappy and having fled to mainland Aquileia under Lombard protection elected a John as a rival bishop who maintained the schism.

However, the Italian Republic and Swiss Confederation do not recognise Lombard speakers as a linguistic minority.

However, the remainder of Italy stayed under Lombard or Byzantine control.

However, Arianism was disappearing even in the duchy, as was the distinction between the ethnic Lombard minority and the Latin-and Greek-speaking population.

He married Ermenberga, the daughter of the Visigothic king of Spain, Witteric, at Chalon in 606, However, the next year ( 607 ), he sent her home in disgrace and a quadruple alliance of Clotaire, Theudebert, Witteric, and the Lombard king Agilulf connived against him, but it all came to naught.

However, she maintained her friendship with Lombard, and acted as Lombard's secretary until her marriage.

However some historians dispute this and argue that he believed in the virgin birth until the day of his death, Certainly these skeptical views were not held by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania in his lifetime, nor included in the later Hungarian Unitarian statement of faith of David's successor Mihály Lombard de Szentábrahám.

However, after William Wellman Sr. met Carole Lombard, he convinced Selznick to cast her.

However around 601, Callinicus took advantage of a rebellion by the duces of Tridentum and Forum Julii and broke the peace by kidnapping the Lombard king Agilulf's daughter and her husband from Parma.

However, the Visigothic nobles under the leadership of Pelagius of Asturias managed to defeat the Moors at the Battle of Covadonga, and subsequently established the Kingdom of Asturias.

However, it is not clear that any of those who became disciples renounced their previous religion, so it is probable to see this as a way in which the emperor strengthened the bond between himself and his nobles.

However, other European nobles took up the cause, including Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and King of Navarre, Peter of Dreux, and Amaury VI of Montfort, who arrived in Acre in September 1239.

However, the tradition of not losing rural roots continues today, and minestrone is now known in Italy as belonging to the style of cooking called " cucina povera " ( literally " poor kitchen ") meaning dishes that have rustic, rural roots, as opposed to " cucina nobile " or the cooking style of the artistocracy and nobles.

However, other nobles turned to the nobleman John Zápolya who, being supported by Suleiman, remained unrecognized by the Christian powers of Europe.

However, Frederick's army was in the end decisively beaten in the Battle of Mühldorf on 28 September 1322 on the Ampfing Heath, where Frederick and 1300 nobles from Austria and Salzburg were captured.

However, they made themselves unpopular by heavy taxation and favouring Danish advisers over the Norwegian nobles, and when King Magnus I of Norway, the son of the former King of Norway, Olaf, invaded in 1035, they were forced to flee to Harthacnut's court.

However scarce, some Frankish population and nobles settled down in regions like Albigeois, Carcassone ( on the fringes of Septimania ), Toulouse, and Provence and Lower Rhone ( the last two not in Aquitaine ).

However, her presence in France became a focal point for the many nobles opposed to Edward's reign.

However Cromwell's success in the sphere of religious reform was offset by the fact that his political influence had been weakened by the emergence of a " privy council ", a body of nobles and office-holders which had first come together to suppress the Pilgrimage of Grace.

However, the guild movement of the 14th Century resulted in a reduction in the power of the nobles and also a restricted guild system in Solothurn.

However, most local nobles, with the exception of Sir Thomas Broughton, did not join them.

However, Louis XVI failed to impose his will, as his reforms stumbled on the hostility of the nobles.

However, the nobles and common people of Savoy begged him to marry yet again, which he reluctantly did.

However, the Lithuanian nobles boycotted this election, and it was left to the Lithuanian ducal council to confirm his election.

However, the Valois ' renewed efforts, including their military reforms, together with the increasing weakness of the English monarchy, which was beset by internal strife among the nobles, resulted in the House of Lancaster losing all French possessions ( except Calais ) in 1453, effectively putting an end to the Lancastrian Kingdom of France.

However, this is believed to be some sort of allusion to his death at the hands of his nobles.

However, Jonathan Riley-Smith has proposed that the People's Crusade also included well armed soldiers and nobles.

However there is no doubt that the Derg under Mengistu's leadership ordered the deaths without trial of 61 ex-officials of the Imperial government on 23 November 1974, and later of numerous other former nobles and officials including the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abuna Theophilos, in 1977.

However some Malay nobles in Brunei, unhappy over Brooke's measures against piracy, arranged for the murder of Muda Hashim and his followers.

However, the nobles saw this arrangement as a guarantee against too strong Danish domination and as a guarantee against a partition of Holstein between Danish nobles.

However, some nobles change their minds when the deaf demonstrate their own form of wit: sign language puns.

However, Conrad had the support of her mother Maria Comnena and stepfather Balian of Ibelin, as well as Reginald of Sidon and other major nobles of Outremer.