The Lombards Convert

There was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Lombardy when they had no king. Two kings in a row had been murdered—the first by his wife, the second by a young slave he had mistreated—and a decade followed of rule by the dukes. This was in the 570s. Paul the Deacon had nothing good to say about this era: After his death the Langobards had no king for ten years but were under dukes, and each…