List of barbarian kings of Italy

The following is a list of barbarian kings of Italy. The term "barbarian" is more applicable to the Lombards than it is to Odoacer and to the Gothic kings: Odoacer (476-493), dux Italiae until the death of Julius Nepos (480), then self-styled rex Italiae, with the fiction that he was simply the representative in Italy of the Eastern emperor Zeno. Ostrogothic Kings of Italy Theodoric the Great (493-526) Athalaric (526-534) Theodahad (534-536) Witiges (536-540) Hel ...

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See List of barbarian kings of Italy After the deposition of Romulus Augustus in 476, Heruli leader Odoacer was appointed dux Italiae (ruler of Italy) by emperor Zeno. Later, he entitled himself rex Italiae (king of Italy), though he always presented himself as an officer of the eastern government. In 483, Ostrogothic leader Theodoric the Great defeated Odoacer, and started a new dynasty of kings of Italy. Ostrogothic rule ended with the death of Teias (552), wh ...

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At the end of the 8th century the popes definitely aspired to independence, and found a way to achieve it by allying with the Carolingian dynasty of the Franks: the Carolingians needed someone who could give legitimacy to a coup against the powerless Merovingian kings, while the popes needed military protection against the Lombards. As a result, in 774 the Franks invaded the Kingdom of Italy and defeated the Lombards, and their leader Charlemagne was proclaimed legitimate king of the Franks by the pope (rex francorum et langobardorum) ...

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Italy in the Middle Ages, Italy in the Middle Ages - Goths Byzantines Lombards 6th-8th centuries, Italy in the Middle Ages - Rise of the Catholic Church 4th century-8th century, Italy in the Middle Ages - The Holy Roman Empire 9th-10th centuries, Italy in the Middle Ages - The end of the Middle Ages 11th-14th centuries

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Italy was invaded by the Visigoths in the 5th century, and Rome was sacked by Alaric in 410. By the end of the century the peninsula was mostly under Ostrogothic control, and the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, was deposed in 476 by Odoacer. On February 25, 493 Theodoric the Great defeated Odoacer and became the king of the Ostrogoths and moved the capital to Ravenna. The eastern half of the Empire, now centred on Constantinople, invaded Italy in the early 6th century, and the generals of emperor Justinian, Belisar ...

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Pippin of Italy, third son of Charlemagne, is crowned King of Italy by Pope Hadrian I in 781. He reigned over Northern Italy, while Central Italy became the Papal States. Pippin: 781-810 Bernard: 810-818 Lothar I: 818-839 Louis II: 839-875 (actual control was exercised by his father, Lothar, until the latter's death in 855) Charles the Bald: 875-877 Carloman: ...

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The Church (and especially the bishop of Rome, the pope) had played an important political role since the times of Constantine, who tried to include it in the imperial administration. In the politically unstable situation after the fall of the western empire, the Church often became the only stable institution and the only source of learning. Even the barbarians had to rely on clerics in order to administrate their conquests. Furthermore, the catholic monastic orders, such as the Benedictines had a maj ...

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Italy in the Middle Ages, Italy in the Middle Ages - Goths Byzantines Lombards 6th-8th centuries, Italy in the Middle Ages - Rise of the Catholic Church 4th century-8th century, Italy in the Middle Ages - The Holy Roman Empire 9th-10th centuries, Italy in the Middle Ages - The end of the Middle Ages 11th-14th centuries

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