Stelle Regnavit Albuin in Italia annos tre...; (Origo Gentis Langobardorum (640 - 680), MGH, Scriptores rer. Lang. et Ital., 1, 1878 (L. Bethmann & G. Waitz), pp. 4-5) [5594]

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Text Origo Gentis Langobardorum (640 - 680) Anonymous - Other
Quotation Regnavit Albuin in Italia annos tres, et occisus est in Verona in palatio ab Hilmichis et Rosemunda uxore sua per consilium Peritheo. Voluit regnare Hilmichis, et non potuit, quia volebant eum Langobardi occidere.
Translation Albuin reigned in Italy three years, and was killed in the palace by Rosemund his wife and Hilmichis upon the advice of Peritheo. Hilmichis wished to be king and could not because the Langobards wanted to slay him. (W.D. Foukes, trans., E. Peters, ed., Origo gentis langobardorum (1974), p. 319)
Summary Here the Origo recounts Queen Rosemunda’s successful plot with Hilmichis to kill King Alboin in Verona, presumably at the palace, and how Hilmichis wanted then to become king himself, but could not due to the emnity of the Lombard people.
Quotation source MGH, Scriptores rer. Lang. et Ital., 1, 1878 (L. Bethmann & G. Waitz), pp. 4-5
Temporal Coverage 568 - 572
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