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Ansprand (also Asprand * 660 / 661 , † 712 ) was in the year 712 King of the Lombards .

Life

After the death of King Cunincpert in 700, Ansprand became regent for his underage son and heir to the throne Liutpert . On the other hand, eight months after the death of Cunincpert Raginpert , the Duke of Turin , rose up, who was able to prevail against the claim in the Battle of Novara . Raginpert died in 701, but his son Aripert II became king.

In the battle of Ticinum ( Pavia ), Aripert II defeated King Liutpert's army under Ansprand, Ato, Tatzo, Rotharit and Farao, took Liutpert prisoner. Anfand first fled to Isola Comacina , an island in Lake Como , where he holed up. When Aripert's army approached, Ansprand fled via Clavenna ( Chiavenna ), the Splügen Pass and Curia ( Chur ) to Theudebert at the Bavarian court. The young Liutpert was murdered by Aripert in 703 as a potential rival to the throne. Ansprand's family was mutilated: his son Sigiprand's eyes were gouged out, his wife Theodora and daughter Aurona had their nose and ears cut off, and only Ansprand's little son Liutprand was allowed into exile with his father.

The Bavarian Duke Theudebert, like the Longobard kings an Agilolfinger , stayed for nine years in exile and supported him as much as he could. In 712 he put an army at his disposal, with which Anfand went over the Alps. At Pavia there was a battle with Aripert's army. This had obviously not yet been decided, so Aripert left his army in the evening to spend the night in the palace. The army felt betrayed and mutinied. Aripert fled from Pavia and drowned in the Ticinus , which he wanted to swim through laden with treasure. Anfand was able to succeed him unchallenged. But he only survived his victory over Aripert by three months. In some manuscripts of the Origo Gentis Langobardorum a reign of three years was handed down.

He was succeeded by his son Liutprand.

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Web links

Wikisource: Historia Langobardorum  - Sources and full texts (Latin)

Remarks

  1. Historia Langobardorum VI, 17
  2. a b Historia Langobardorum VI, 18-19
  3. Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders Vol VI, p. 322
  4. ^ Jörg Jarnut, contributions to the Franconian-Bavarian-Longobard relations in the 7th and 8th centuries (656-728), in ZBLG 39 (1976), pp. 345-346
  5. Historia Langobardorum VI, 21
  6. Historia Langobardorum VI, 20
  7. Historia Langobardorum VI, 22
  8. Historia Langobardorum VI, 30
  9. Historia Langobardorum VI, 35
  10. Origo Gentis Langobardorum , ed. Georg Waitz. In. Ludwig Bethmann, Georg Waitz (eds.): Scriptores rerum Langobardicarum et Italicarum saec. VI-IX. Hannover 1878, pp. 1–6 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ), here p. 6.
predecessor Office successor
Aripert II. King of the Lombards
712
Liutprand