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.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

It was during the 9th century that a strong Lombard presence became entrenched in formerly Greek Apulia.

Gregory IX and Frederick came to a truce, but when Frederick defeated the Lombard League in 1239, the possibility that he might dominate all of Italy, surrounding the Papal States, became a very real threat.

Milan became one of the most prosperous Italian cities during the High Middle Ages, playing a primary role in the Lombard League.

As a result of the independence that the Lombard cities gained in the Peace of Constance in 1183, Milan became a duchy.

Thus, the monastery became the capital of a state comprising a compact and strategic region between the Lombard principality of Benevento and the Byzantine city-states of the coast ( Naples, Gaeta, and Amalfi ).

After an interval spent at Lombard College in Galesburg, he became a hotel servant in Denver, then a coal-heaver in Omaha.

That year, director Howard Hawks encountered Lombard at a party and became enamored with her, thinking her right for his latest project.

After the Lombard conquest in 572, Pavia became the capital of the Lombard Kingdom.

The city soon became one of the busiest trading ports on the Ligurian coast ; but it had an important rival in the Roman town of Cemenelum, which continued to exist as a separate city until the time of the Lombard invasions.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Lombard invasions, " Italy " or " Italia " gradually became the collective name for diverse sovereign entities appearing on the peninsula.

Not long after it had been sacked by Totila and its walls razed ( 545 ), Benevento became the seat of a powerful Lombard duchy.

Principal photography, originally scheduled to begin January 17, 1942, was delayed when the news of the accidental death of Carole Lombard became known.

In Paris he became known as " the Great Lombard ".

Milan, which had been the capital of the Western Roman Empire in the time of Constantine, was the capital of the Lombard kings Perctarit and his son Cunipert, who became Catholic Christians in the 7th century.

After the fall of the Lombard Kingdom in Italy, Sondrio became part of the Holy Roman Empire.

alt = Full-view photograph of the bridgeThe name Papia, from which the modern name Pavia comes, does not appear until Lombard times, when it became the seat of the Lombard kingdom, and as such one of the leading cities of Italy.

Lombard and Barrymore became friends during filming.

After the conquest of the Lombard Kingdom by Charlemagne, it became the seat of a county under one Auteramus ( died 816 ).

He was active in diplomacy from his twenties, and became an effective military commander, campaigning alongside other members of his family in the struggles with the Lombard League.

In 568, Cividale del Friuli ( the Roman Forum Iulii ( from which the name Friuli comes )) became the capital of the first Lombard dukedom in Italy.

With the Lombard invasion of Italy it was annexed to the Duchy of Benevento, until it was finally destroyed by the Byzantines of Constans II in 663, reducing to a small hamlet known as Quintodecimo ( referring to its distance of 15 miles from Benevento ).

Pawnbrokerage arrived in England with William the Conqueror, but known by the Italian name, Lombard.

* 1009 – 1010: the Lombard known as Melus of Bari led an insurrection against the Byzantine Catepan of Italy, John Curcuas, as the latter was killed in battle and replaced by Basil Mesardonites, who brought Byzantine reinforcements.

The film also provided Lombard with an opportunity to work with friend Robert Stack, whom she had known since he was an awkward teenager.

* Yvonne Lombard ( born 1929 ), a Swedish actress known from the film A Lesson in Love

* Étienne Lombard ( 1869 – 1920 ), a French otolaryngologist known for discovering the Lombard effect

Desiderius ( also known as Daufer or Dauferius ; Didier in French and Desiderio in Italian ) was the last king of the Lombard Kingdom of northern Italy ( died c. 786 ).

In all, 83 Lombard steam log haulers are known to have been built up to 1917, when production switched entirely to internal combustion engine powered machines, ending with a Fairbanks diesel powered unit in 1934.

In 1913, the first known gas powered log hauler in the Adirondacks, a Lombard, was used by the veneer company between here and Speculator.

The event became known as the Lombard RAC Rally, and Lombard's name became synonymous with the event.

The Lombard League and its allies, defending the liberties of the urban communes against the Emperor's encroachments, became known as Guelphs.

Lombard Street is best known for the one-way section on Russian Hill between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets, in which the roadway has eight sharp turns ( or switchbacks ) that have earned the street the distinction of being the crookedest ( most winding ) street in the world ( though this title is contested-see " See Also " links ).

* Lombard Street, San Francisco, known for its twists and turns

* Lombard Street, Baltimore, known for its ethnic restaurants

The small church of Oratorio di Santa Maria in Valle ( also known as Lombard Temple ), next to the Natisone river, is a notable example of High Middle Ages art sometimes attributed to the 8th century, but probably later.

After acquiring the strong coloring and other distinctive stylistic features of the Lombard school and — though he is not known to have travelled to Milan — somehow absorbing the superficial mannerisms of Leonardo ( Freedberg 1993: 117 ), he traveled to Siena before 1503, perhaps at the behest of agents of the Spannocchi family, and began with fresco cycles for Olivetan monks and a series of small Ovidian ceiling panels and a frieze depicting the career of Julius Caesar for Sigismondo Chigi at Palazzo Chigi.

The sole exception is the chapter at Knox College, which absorbed the chapter at the now-defunct Lombard College and is now known as Illinois Beta-Delta in recognition of both chapters.

Lombard is best known for playing Evangeline Eliott, the younger of the two Eliott sisters, in the 1990s television drama The House of Eliott, after getting her big break in the hit series Chancer in which she starred with Clive Owen.

* Francis de Barde – a Lombard ( Lombards were known as bankers and pawnbrokers in London )

Glynneath once a year plays host to one of motor sport's most important challenges, the World Rally Championships ( formerly known as the Lombard RAC rally or Rally GB ).