Adaloald
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Adaloald (602–628) was the Lombard king of Italy from 616 to 626.[1]
He was son and heir of King Agilulf and his Catholic queen Theodelinda. He was baptised shortly after his birth in 602; the abbot Secundus of Non (later historian) was his godfather.[2] He was an associate king, raised on the shield by the warriors at his father's request, when still young. Upon becoming sole king as a teen, he reigned under his mother as regent.
Adaloald went insane and lost the support of the nobles. He was deposed in 626 by Arioald, a Lombard noble from Turin and husband of the king's sister Gundeberga, who was hostile to the Catholic Church. Adaloald died mysteriously in Ravenna shortly after (628).
Notes
- ^ Grun, Bernard (2004). The Timetables of History : a historical linkage of people and events (4th ed.). Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-7003-8. p.54.
- ^ William Dudley Foulke (1907). History of the Langobards. Philadelphia: Longmans, Green & Co.,. p. 352.
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