Aripert II.
Aripert II († 712 ) from the house of the Agilolfingers was king of the Lombards from 701 to 712 .
Life
Aripert was the son of Raginpert . After King Cunipert had died in the year 700, usurped the throne against Raginpert Cunincperts minor son and rightful heir to the throne, Liutpert and its regent Ansprand . Anfand was defeated in the Battle of Novara , but Raginpert died in 701, so that his son Aripert inherited the throne.
In the Battle of Ticinum ( Pavia ), Aripert II defeated King Liutpert's army under Ansprand, Ato, Tatzo, Rotharit and Farao, took Liutpert prisoner and murdered him in 703 as a potential rival to the throne. Anfand fled from Aripert to Theudebert at the Bavarian court. 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, only Ansprand's little son Liutprand was allowed to go into exile with his father.
Rotharit, the dux (Duke) of Bergamo , usurped the throne, but was captured and murdered by Aripert after a short siege of Bergamo. Then dux Corvolus of Friuli rebelled against Aripert, but was defeated and blinded.
Aripert maintained good relations with the Franconian Empire and the Catholic Church, to which he gave goods from his inheritance. He also kept peace with Byzantium . The office of dux had become partly hereditary. In Friuli the Duces were appointed and deposed by the king, while in the remote Spoleto and Benevento the sons were successors without the king's influence.
After nine years of exile, Ansprand 712 returned across the Alps with a Bavarian army belonging to his relative, the Bavarian dux Theudebert, to gain the throne. 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, but drowned in the Ticinus , which he wanted to swim through laden with treasure. Aripert's body was found the next morning and buried in Pavia next to the Domini Salvatoris church (Church of the Lord and Savior, today: Monastero di San Salvatore), which Aripert I had built. Anfand was able to succeed him unchallenged.
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literature
- Paolo Bertolini: Ariperto II. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 4: Arconati-Bacaredda. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1962, pp. 195-196.
- Wilfried Menghin : The Lombards . Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 978-3-8062-0364-6 .
- Herbert Zielinski : Aripert II . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 933.
Web links
- Paulus Diaconus: History of the Langobards (English)
- Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders Vol VI (partially overhauled)
- Ludo Moritz Hartmann : History of Italy in the Middle Ages Vol. II Part 2, P. 122ff, Perthes, Gotha 1903 (partially outdated)
Remarks
- ↑ a b Historia Langobardorum VI, 18-19
- ↑ a b Historia Langobardorum VI, 20
- ↑ Jörg Jarnut, Contributions to the Frankish-Bavarian-Longobard Relationships in the 7th and 8th Centuries (656-728), in ZBLG 39 (1976), SS345, p. 346
- ↑ Historia Langobardorum VI, 21
- ↑ Historia Langobardorum VI, 22
- ↑ Historia Langobardorum VI, 25
- ↑ a b Historia Langobardorum VI, 35
- ↑ Historia Langobardorum VI, 28
- ↑ Historia Langobardorum VI, 24-26
- ↑ a b Historia Langobardorum VI, 30
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Raginpert |
King of the Lombards 701–712 |
Start-up |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Aripert II. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of the Lombards (701–712) |
DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century |
DATE OF DEATH | 712 |
Place of death | Pavia |