Since both Liutprand's father and his stepfather had been sent as ambassadors to Constantinople, and as Liutprand prepared himself by learning Greek ( not widely known in the 10th-century West ) he seemed well suited for a mission of that kind.

The Catholic Encyclopedia asserted " Liutprand's writings are a very important historical source for the tenth century ; he is ever a strong partisan and is frequently unfair towards his adversaries.

Liutprand's reign endured for thirty-one years.

By the time of Liutprand's death ( 744 ), Spoleto was more securely in central control from Pavia, and Theodicus succeeded peaceably.

A climactic moment in the founding of the Papal States was the agreement over boundaries embodied in the Lombard king Liutprand's Donation of Sutri ( 728 ) to Pope Gregory II.

Liutprand's description of Nikephoros was clouded by the fact that he was ill-treated while on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople.

Peace with the Eastern Emperor, who still claimed Benevento and Capua, which were actually in Lombard hands and whose forces had come to strife with Otto in Bari recently, was Liutprand's recommended course of action.

At the opening of his reign, Liutprand's chief ally among neighboring rulers was the Agilolfing Theodo I, the Frankish duke of Bavaria.

Until distracted by Byzantine politics in 726, Liutprand's chief warmaking energies were concentrated on taking Bavarian castles on the River Adige.

The little fortress had been incorporated into the Papal States from their historic beginnings with the Lombard king Liutprand's Donation of Sutri ( 728 ) to Pope Gregory II, but the lords of Viterbo held it from 1110 to 1134.

Gregory's anti-Lombard rhetoric reached absurd heights considering Liutprand's orthodoxy ; the Lombard king only wanted his rebellious dukes to face justice.

Pope Gregory, however, met with Liutprand, and convinced him to abandon the effort, then with Liutprand's help effected a reconciliation with Eutychius.

Liutprand's life began inauspiciously.

A low-quality tremissis of Liutprand's.

Plaque marking the casket containing Liutprand's bones in San Pietro in Ciel d ' Oro in Pavia.

In 882 his successor Oleg ventured south and conquered Kiev, which had been previously paying tribute to the Khazars, founding Kievan Rus '.

His successor, Piankhy, subdued the delta, and conquered Egypt, thus initiating the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, and founded a line of kings who ruled Kush and Thebes for about a hundred years.

In 927 Edward's successor Athelstan conquered Northumbria, bringing the whole of England under one ruler for the first time.

As Louis had no legitimate children Ferdinand was elected as his successor in Kingdoms of Bohemia and Hungary, but the Hungarian throne was contested by John Zápolya, who ruled the areas of the kingdom conquered by the Turks as an Ottoman client.

* In the Ottoman empire, the sovereign of imperial rank ( incorrectly known in the west as ( Great ) sultan ) was styled padishah with a host of additional titles, reflecting his claim as political successor to the various conquered states.

Thereafter it shared the fate of the Kingdom of Naples — including the period of Spanish rule of which the 16th-century castle of Charles V, overlooking modern Crotone, serves as a reminder — and its successor, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which was conquered by the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1860 and incorporated into the new Kingdom of Italy in 1861.

Sarpedon conquered the Milyans, and ruled over them ; his kingdom was named Lycia, after his successor, Lycus, son of Pandion II.

The Witch-king conquered Rhudaur, the weakest of Arnor's successor kingdoms, and replaced its Dúnedain king with one of the native Hillmen, a wild tribe of men possibly descended from the " accursed " kin of Ulfang.

While Axayacatl conquered this area, it was a successor, Ahuizotl who had most of the Aztec shrines, temples and other constructions built here.

In 1288, Singhasari, the successor of Kediri in Java, conquered Melayu state includes Palembang, Jambi as well as much of Srivijaya during the Pamalayu expedition.

As a result, Peter's successor Alfonso conquered the kingdom in 1286.

From the early 6th century BC onwards, several Iranian states dominated the region, beginning with the Medes and non-Iranian Neo-Babylonian Empire, then their successor the Achaemenid Empire known as the first Persian Empire, conquered in the late 4th century BC.

Khosrow's son and successor, Kavadh II Šêrôe ( Šêrôy ), who reigned until September, concluded a peace treaty returning territories conquered by the Sassanids to the Eastern Roman Empire.

His son and successor Aditya I conquered the Pallavas and the Kongu country.

The son and successor of Cadfan ap Iago, he is best remembered as the King of the Britons who invaded and conquered Northumbria, defeating and killing its king, Edwin, prior to his own death in battle against Oswald of Bernicia.

It was one of the successor states of the Golden Horde, and it came to an end when it was conquered by the Tsardom of Russia.

The Nawab Saadet-Allah of Arcot ( 1710 – 1732 ) established his independence ; his successor Dost Ali ( 1732 – 1740 ) conquered and annexed Madura in 1736, and his successors were confirmed in their position as Nawabs of the Carnatic by the Nizam of Hyderabad after that potentate had established his power in southern India.

Further organization of newly conquered territories into provinces ruled by satraps, was continued by Cyrus's successor Darius the Great.

This allowed Æthelred to retake the crown for the three final years of his life, but his son and successor Edmund Ironside lasted only seven months before being conquered by Sweyn's son Cnut the Great.

His successor, Ghiyas-ud-din, conquered Bihar.

In its name, Hubaekje sought to establish itself as the legitimate successor to the ancient kingdom of Baekje which had ruled the southwestern Korean peninsula until conquered by Silla in 660.

Gangaikonda Cholapuram ( Tamil: கங ் க ை க ொ ண ் ட ச ோ ழப ு ரம ்) was erected as the capital of the Cholas by Rajendra Chola I, the son and successor of Rajaraja Chola, the great Chola who conquered a large area in South India at the beginning of the 11th century C. E.

After the prophet Mohammed and his testator heir and successor Abu Bakr (+ 634 ) has established the theocratic rule of Islam on most of the sparsely populated Arabian peninsula, the armies of the next caliphs victoriously planted the green banner of the new religion in vast territories conquered on the neighboring giaur ( infidel ) empires of Persia ( extinguishing the Zoroastrian-dualist pagan-Sassanids ) and Byzantium ( the Christian remnant that still considered itself the continuation of the Roman Empire, but was thus reduced in Asia to Anatolia and completely swept out of Northern Africa, while it kept losing European territories to mainly Germanic and Slavonic invaders ).

When Sweyn Forkbeard conquered England in 1013, he began sending English bishops to Denmark, a process which was continued by his successor Cnut the Great.

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.

Benedict's successor, Clement XII ( elected 1730 ), named him legate of Ravenna, where he erected the Porta Alberoni ( 1739 ), a magnificent gateway that formerly provided access to the city's dockyards, and has since been moved to the entrance of the Teatro Rasi.

The Eastern Roman Emperor, Leo I the Thracian, tarried in choosing his successor, so the Germanic elements of the army, represented by the new Magister militum and Patrician, Gundobad ( a nephew of Ricimer's ), elected Glycerius Emperor on March 3 or 5, 473 in Ravenna.

A council had been summoned at Brixen, and on 16 June it pronounced Gregory deposed and nominated the archbishop Guibert of Ravenna as his successor.

Expecting resistance, Nepos was forced by bad winter weather to delay his voyage until the next year ; it was therefore left to Zeno, as Leo's successor, to support Julius Nepos ' installation in Ravenna.

Leo, on the other hand, wanted to keep Gaiseric as far as possible from the imperial court at Ravenna, and took time to choose a successor to Severus.

Supreme military commanders sometimes also took this title in early medieval Italy, for example in the Papal States and in Venice, whose Doge claimed to be the successor to the Exarch of Ravenna.