His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.

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 ).

While it is common for scholars to state that Alexander was the first to write a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, it is not quite accurate.

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.

Between 720 and 723, Charles was fighting in Bavaria, where the Agilolfing dukes had gradually evolved into independent rulers, recently in alliance with Liutprand the Lombard.

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.

In 568, the Lombard leader Alboin invaded Italy, and founded an independent kingdom which in 774 was overthrown by Charlemagne, who was crowned Emperor of the Romans in 800.

In 1779 Newton was invited by John Thornton to become Rector of St Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street, London, where he officiated until his death.

The arrival of the crusade was a brief respite from the Lombard War ; Filangieri remained in Tyre and did not participate.

Theobald, however, was frustrated by the Lombard War, and returned home in September 1240.

The Lombard War was over, but the king was still absent, as Conrad never came to the east.

The Lombard was victorious, passage was granted, and the Lombards reached Mauringa.

By the time Paul the Deacon was writing, the Lombard language, dress and even hairstyles had all disappeared.

The whole Lombard territory was divided into 36 duchies, whose leaders settled in the main cities.

His successor was Rothari, regarded by many authorities as the most energetic of all Lombard kings.

After his defeat of Ratchis, the last Lombard to rule as king was Desiderius, duke of Tuscany, who managed to take Ravenna definitively, ending the Byzantine presence in northern Italy.

He decided to reopen struggles against the Pope, who was supporting the dukes of Spoleto and Benevento against him, and entered Rome in 772, the first Lombard king to do so.

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

* 1226-1250-Dispute between the so called second Lombard League and Frederick II.

* In Southern Italy, at the second battle of Cannae, the Lombard adventurer Melus of Bari and his Norman mercenaries are defeated by the Byzantine army led by the kapetan Basil Boioannes.

In 1822, Manzoni published his second tragedy, Adelchi, turning on the overthrow by Charlemagne of the Lombard domination in Italy, and containing many veiled allusions to the existing Austrian rule.

Benevento was acclaimed by a chronicler as a " second Pavia "— Ticinum geminum — after the Lombard capital was lost.

) and after a course of about 75 km — the second longest of the province — flows into the Po River 10 km east of Piacenza, in the vicinity of Roncarolo, a frazione of the commune of Caorso, on the border with the Lombard commune of Caselle Landi.

By his second wife, the daughter of the influential noble George Sursuvul, he had three sons: Peter, who succeeded as Emperor of Bulgaria in 927 and ruled until 969 ; Ivan, who rebelled against Peter in 928 and then fled to Byzantium ; and Benjamin ( Bajan ), who, according to Lombard historian Liutprand of Cremona, " possessed the power to transform himself suddenly into a wolf or other strange animal ".

He married Waldrada, daughter of the Lombard king Wacho and his stepsister ( a sister of his father's second wife ).

This was quickly followed up with an impressive second place overall in the Tour of Britain in August 1975, and in the 1975 Lombard RAC Rally Culcheth and Syer won Group 1 and were first in class.

It became an independent commune in 1120, and joined the first and second Lombard leagues.

Sikelgaita ( also Sichelgaita or Sigelgaita ) ( 1040 – 16 April 1090 ) was a Lombard princess, the daughter of Guaimar IV, Prince of Salerno, and second wife of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia.

During the 1930s, Merkel became a popular second lead in a number of films, usually playing the wisecracking best friend of the heroine, supporting actresses such as Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Loretta Young, and Dorothy Lamour.

In 1255 his Venetian second wife Carintana dalle Carceri died, leading to a dispute over the inheritance of a fief in Euboea, and war broke out between Venice and Achaea ( the " War of the Euboeote Succession " terciers being the three Lombard lords of the island ).

A second origin for the name comes from the Lombard word sbrinzo which means any hard cheese.

Cragg finished second behind Cathal Lombard at the 2007 Irish Cross Country Championships, held in Belfast.

In 1955, Saarbrücken became the sole club representing Saarland in new-born European Champion Clubs ' Cup: winning the first leg in San Siro against Italian champions of AC Milan ( 3 – 4 ), they were heavily defeated ( 1 – 4 ) and eliminated in the second leg at home by the Lombard opponents.

In 758, king Desiderius briefly captured Spoleto and Benevento, but with Charlemagne's conquest of the Lombard kingdom in 774, Arechis II tried to claim the royal dignity and make Benevento a secundum Ticinum: a second Pavia ( the old Lombard capital ).

The second building was located at 167 Lombard Street and was constructed from 1906 to 1908 by Toronto architects Pearson and Darling.

* In the original version, when Bugs plays " Guess Who " with Elmer, Elmer's second answer was Carole Lombard.

Through his second wife, he acquired premises in Lombard Street which became the site of Barclays Bank.

He was the son of Micer Gabriele Pallastrelli, a Lombard nobleman from Piacenza, and second wife Bertolina Bracciforti.

His second and most important work is a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, which would come to play a major influence on Martin Luther during the coming Reformation.

Chen invested in Itty bitty machine company and suggested opened a second store in Lombard, IL on East Roosevelt Road nearer where Chen lived.

* Lombard, codename of third generation PowerBook G3 laptop computers made by Apple Computer from 1999 to 2001