Hildeprand

Hildeprand (also Utprand ; † 744 ) was king of the Lombards in 744 .

Hildeprand was the nephew of King Liutprand . The latter gave him command of the army that conquered the Byzantine Ravenna , which fell to the Venetians soon after in 732 , with Hildeprand being captured and ransomed.

He then took advantage of his uncle's illness to seize power himself. However, the king soon recovered and made Hildeprand a co-king in the government. Liutprand died in January 744, whereupon Hildeprand succeeded him, but was soon faced with a rebellion by the Duke of Friuli , Ratchis , who was able to occupy Pavia and overthrow Hildeprand in the autumn of the same year. Ratchis later had his rival murdered.

Hildebrand died in 744. He was buried in Sant'Antonino in Piacenza .

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Paulus Diaconus , Historia Langobardorum , ed. Ludwig Bethmann and Georg Waitz, in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Scriptores rerum Langobardicarum et Italicarum saec. VI-IX . Hahn, Hannover 1878, p. 156 (5, 34), 183-184 (6, 54-55) ( digitized ).

literature

Andrea Bedina: Ildeprando. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 62: Iacobiti-Labriola. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2004, pp. 236-237.
Stefano Gasparri: Hildeprand . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , column 16.
Jörg Jarnut : History of the Longobards. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17007515-2
Wilfried Menghin : The Lombards. Archeology and history. Theiss, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 978-3-8062-0364-6 .

Web links

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

Paulus Diaconus: History of the Langobards (English)
Italy: Emperors & Kings

Remarks

↑ Origo Gentis Langobardorum 7, MGH SS rer Lang I, p. 6
↑ ^a ^b Stefano Gasparri: Hildeprand . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , column 16.
↑ The source for this is the Placentinae urbis ac nonnullarum nobilium tum in ea, tum per Italiam familiarum descriptio by Giovanni de'Mussis from the late 14th or early 15th century. Printed by Lodovico Antonio Muratori : Rerum Italicarum Scriptores , Volume 16, Milan 1730, Col. 571E: "Et etiam ante fores dictae ecclesiae sepultus fuit Aliprandus Rex Langobadorum sub uno magno lapide" ( digital copy ). See Karl Heinrich Krüger : Royal grave churches of the Franks, Anglo-Saxons and Longobards up to the middle of the 8th century. A historical catalog . Fink, Munich 1971, p. 410.

predecessor	Office	successor
Liutprand	King of the Lombards 744	Ratchis

personal data
SURNAME	Hildeprand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Utprand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of the Lombards
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century or 8th century
DATE OF DEATH	744

[1] Origo Gentis Langobardorum 7, MGH SS rer Lang I, p. 6

[lex-2] Stefano Gasparri: Hildeprand . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , column 16.

[3] The source for this is the Placentinae urbis ac nonnullarum nobilium tum in ea, tum per Italiam familiarum descriptio by Giovanni de'Mussis from the late 14th or early 15th century. Printed by Lodovico Antonio Muratori : Rerum Italicarum Scriptores , Volume 16, Milan 1730, Col. 571E: "Et etiam ante fores dictae ecclesiae sepultus fuit Aliprandus Rex Langobadorum sub uno magno lapide" ( digital copy ). See Karl Heinrich Krüger : Royal grave churches of the Franks, Anglo-Saxons and Longobards up to the middle of the 8th century. A historical catalog . Fink, Munich 1971, p. 410.