Siege of Pavia (773-774)

The siege of Pavia , the capital of the Longobard Empire , by the Frankish army of Charlemagne took place from autumn 773 to June 774 in the course of the Longobard campaign . It lasted nine months and ended on June 4, 774 with the capture of the city by the Franks .

With this defeat and the later conquest of Bergamo , the history of the Longobard Empire as an independent state ended. On the day after the conquest, on June 5, 774, Charlemagne assumed the title of "King of the Lombards". He banished his defeated opponent and father-in-law Desiderius († after 786) to the Franconian monastery of Corbie .

literature

• Karin Priester : History of the Longobards: Society, Culture, Everyday Life . Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1848-X
• Jörg Jarnut : History of the Longobards . In: Urban Pocket Books , Volume 339, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007515-2