The letter opens with all apology that a " foolish Scot " should be charged to write for a Lombard king.

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

The Lombard king Audoin defeated the Gepid leader Thurisind in 551 or 552 ; his successor Alboin eventually destroyed the Gepids at the Battle of Asfeld in 567.

The first Lombard king, Agelmund, from the race of Guginger, ruled for thirty years.

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 >

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

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.

The civil war lasted ten years and was ended only by a peace treaty imposed by the Emperor Louis II, the only Frankish king to exercise actual sovereignty over the Lombard states, in 849, which divided the kingdom into two states: the Principality of Benevento and the Principality of Salerno, with its capital at Salerno on the Tyrrhenian.

Aside from the richest and most powerful of the dukes and the king himself, Lombard noblemen tended to live in cities ( unlike their Frankish counterparts ) and hold little more than twice as much in land as the merchant class ( a far cry from the provincial Frankish aristocrat who held a vast swathe of land hundreds of times larger than the nearest man beneath him ).

The aristocracy by the 8th century was highly dependent on the king for means of income related especially to judicial duties: many Lombard nobles are referred in contemporary documents as iudices ( judges ) even when their offices had important military and legislative functions as well.

Born between 720 and 735 in Friuli in Italy to this possibly noble Lombard family, Paul received an exceptionally good education, probably at the court of the Lombard king Ratchis in Pavia, learning from a teacher named Flavian the rudiments of Greek.

It is probable that he was secretary to the Lombard king Desiderius, a successor of Ratchis ; it is certain that this king's daughter Adelperga was his pupil.

After taking the town, he banished the Lombard king to the Abbey of Corbie in France, and adopted the title " King of the Lombards " himself.

In return, in 756, Pepin and his Frankish army forced the last Lombard king to surrender his conquests, and Pepin officially conferred upon the pope the territories belonging to Ravenna, even cities such as Forlì with their hinterlands, laying the Donation of Pepin upon the tomb of Saint Peter, according to traditional later accounts.

Upon the request of the Lombard king, Liutprand, Gregory had given the pallium to Bishop Serenus, granting him the patriarchate of Aquileia.

Next, he attempted to turn the Lombard king and dukes against the pope, but they retained their ambivalent stance, not committing one way or the other.

In 729, Eutychius finally managed to bring about an alliance with the Lombard king, Liutprand, and both agreed to help the other deal with their rebellious subjects.

The return of the Lombard king Liutprand in 737 saw a renewal of the Lombard assault on the Exarchate of Ravenna.

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

Consequently, an embassy was sent to the Lombard king, Desiderius, in 770, which included Charlemagne ’ s mother, Bertrada of Laon.

The next day Stephen was allowed to return to the city, while Christophorus and Sergius were left in Lombard hands.

That such a letter was a fiction was demonstrated very soon after ; when Stephen asked Desiderius to fulfil the promises he had made over the body of Saint Peter, the Lombard king responded:

Desiderius pledged a Lombard ducatus ferrariae (" Duchy of Ferrara ") in 757 to Pope Stephen II.

He first served as a Roman deacon and was frequently employed by his brother, Pope Stephen II, in negotiations with the Lombard kings.

Pope Stephen II acted to neutralize the Lombard threat by courting the de facto Frankish ruler, Pepin the Short.

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, 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.

Lombard is divorced from Jon Stephen who is a member of a camera and electrical department.

Werner mustered an army of 3, 000 Hungarian, German and Neapolitan knights and 2, 000 Lombard infantry to counter Stephen, defeating him before Naples.

The cast included Clive Owen, Susannah Harker, Leslie Phillips, Peter Vaughan, Simon Shepherd, Louise Lombard, Caroline Langrishe, Ralph Riach, Stephen Tompkinson, and Lynsey Baxter.

Laughton soon gave up the stage in preference for a film career and returned to Hollywood where his next film was White Woman ( 1933 ) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a Cockney river trader in the Malaysian jungle.

As today, US 101W proceeded up Van Ness, but without any left turn at Lombard, ending at the Hyde Street Pier.

* a quarter after what an unearthly hour I suppose theyre just getting up in China now combing out their pigtails for the day well soon have the nuns ringing the angelus theyve nobody coming in to spoil their sleep except an odd priest or two for his night office or the alarmlock next door at cockshout clattering the brain out of itself let me see if I can doze off 1 2 3 4 5 what kind of flowers are those they invented like the stars the wallpaper in Lombard street was much nicer the apron he gave me was like that something only I only wore it twice better lower this lamp and try again so that I can get up early ( 1922, rpt.

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 addition, there may have been up to twice as many Phoenix Centipeed versions of the steam log hauler built under license from Lombard, with vertical instead of horizontal cylinders.

The script was not taken up in England and Ireland until ecclesiastic reforms in the middle of the 10th century ; in Spain a traditionalist Visigothic hand survived ; and in southern Italy a ' Beneventan minuscule ' survived in the lands of the Lombard duchy of Benevento through the 13th century, although Romanesca eventually also appeared in southern Italy.

Lombard told him and Hawks asked her what she would do if a man said " something " about her, coming up with an example from the back of his mind.

As a rule the corbel table carries the gutter, but in Lombard work the arcaded corbel table was utilized as a decoration to subdivide the storeys and break up the wall surface.

The original oath, with its clauses of secrecy was drawn up by Luby under Stephens ' direction in Stephens ' room in Donnelly ’ s which was situated behind Lombard Street.

:" They built a street up there called Lombard Street that goes straight down, and they're not satisfied with you killing yourself that way — they put grooves and curves and everything in it, and they put flowers there where they've buried the people that have killed themselves.

" In the tie-in novel Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, when Monk and Natalie Teeger visit the Mayor's office during a major police strike, Monk again brings up his request to straighten Lombard Street.

The MythBusters " delivery crew " encountered problems during an experiment when their step van could not complete the tight turns on Lombard Street, culminating with the delivery truck stalling and holding up traffic at the bottom of the hill.

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.

In July 2010 American businessman Lionel Lombard filed a $ 61 million dollar lawsuit against Emaar and its Chairman Mohamed Alabbar in a California federal court alleging he had been falsely imprisoned for 2 years and tortured in UAE prisons because he had spoken up on behalf of Emaar foreign workers and alleged Apartheid was being practiced by Emaar.

A young page educated at Hugh's court at the traditional Lombard capital, Pavia, grew up to be Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, the liveliest chronicler of the 10th century ; his loyalty to the memory of Hugh may have helped fuel some of his partisan bitterness in chronicling Hugh's heirs.

His writings continued to be published, and other recollections written down and collected, up to the time of Mihály Lombard de Szentábrahám.

He grew up in Philadelphia, and spent his life there in a home at the corner of 3rd and Lombard.

Among Henry Clay's documents, for the year 1829 we find the January 1 entry, " Prince Ibrahima, an Islamic prince sold into slavery 40 years ago, and freed with the stipulation that he return ( in this case the word " return " makes sense ) to Africa, joined the black citizens of Philadelphia as an honored guest in their New Year's Day parade, up Lombard and Walnut, and down Chestnut and Spruce streets.

Although in 876 Guy and his elder brother, Lambert, Duke of Spoleto, had been commissioned by Charles the Bald to accompany Pope John VIII to Naples to break up the alliances that many of the southern Lombard states had made with the Saracens, the family ’ s interests were generally hostile to the papacy, a policy that Guy initially followed.

Smaragdus inherited a war with the Lombards from his predecessor Callinicus, and refused to give up the daughter of the Lombard king Agilulf, as well as her husband, both of whom had been taken prisoner by the Byzantines in 601.

In 1855, Alexander and his partner Edward Cohen set up a permanent base off Lombard Street in London, just round the corner from where Robert Benson's office was located.