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| ID |
5595 |
| Text |
Origo Gentis Langobardorum (640 - 680) Anonymous - Other |
| Quotation |
Mox ut audivit Longinus gavisus est, misit nave angarialem et tulerunt Rosemunda et Hilmichis at Albsuindam, filia Albuin regis, et omnes thesauros Langobardorum secum duxerunt in Ravenna. Tunc ortare coepit Longinus praefectus Rosemunda ut occideret Hilmichis et esset uxor longini. |
| Translation |
When Longinus presently heard this he rejoiced; he sent a ship of the public service and they brought Rosamund and Hilmichis and Albsuinda, king Albuins daughter, and conducted all the treasures of the Langobards with them to Ravenna. Then the prefect Longinus began to persuade Rosemund to kill Hilmichis and become the wife of Longinus.
(W.D. Foukes, trans., E. Peters, ed., Origo gentis langobardorum (1974), p. 319) |
| Summary |
Here the Origo recounts how Rosemund, her co-conspirator Hilmichis, and Albsuinda, the daughter of King Alboin, fled to Ravenna with the Lombard treasury, at the invitation of the prefect, Longinus. Rosemunda went on to kill Hilmichis with the intention of marrying the prefect, but instead was also killed herself. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, Scriptores rer. Lang. et Ital., 1, 1878 (L. Bethmann & G. Waitz), p. 5 |
| Temporal Coverage |
572 - 580 |
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| Comment |
It is uncertain how long after Alboin's death in 572 that Rosemunda, Hilmichis and Albsuinda fled to Ravenna, or how long it took once they were there for Longinus to begin his machinations. The end date of 580, therefore, is somewhat arbitrary. |
