{"slug": "authari", "label": "Authari", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authari", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313395", "qid": "Q313395", "description": "6th-century Lombard king (540-590)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [540, 591], "span_label": ["540 CE", "591 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "lombards", "label": "Lombards", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "theodelinda", "label": "Theodelinda", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-the-lombards", "label": "Kingdom of the Lombards", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "agilulf", "label": "Agilulf", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-catholicism", "label": "Roman Catholicism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pavia", "label": "Pavia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northern-italy", "label": "Northern Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dux", "label": "Dux", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bavaria", "label": "Bavaria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "milan", "label": "Milan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 540, "year_label": "540 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Authari, king of the Lombards (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367291057#Births", "title": "540", "revid": 1367291057, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 584, "year_label": "584 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Lombards re-establish a unified monarchy after a 10-year interregnum (Rule of the Dukes). Threatened by a Frankish invasion that the dukes have provoked, they elect Authari (son of Cleph) as their king and give him the capital of Pavia (Northern Italy).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754048#Europe", "title": "584", "revid": 1364754048, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 588, "year_label": "588 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Lombard Kingdom (Italy) is converted to Roman Catholicism under the rule of King Authari (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753170#Europe", "title": "588", "revid": 1364753170, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 589, "year_label": "589 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 15", "text": "May 15 – King Authari marries Theodelinda, daughter of the Bavarian duke Garibald I. A Catholic, she has great influence at court and among the Lombard nobility.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654394#Europe", "title": "589", "revid": 1366654394, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 590, "year_label": "590 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – King Authari dies (possibly by poison) after a six-year reign, and is succeeded by Agilulf, duke (dux) of Turin, who marries his widow Theodelinda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753220#Europe", "title": "590", "revid": 1364753220, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 590, "year_label": "590 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – Authari, king of the Lombards", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753220#Deaths", "title": "590", "revid": 1364753220, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 591, "year_label": "591 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Agilulf, cousin of Authari (called \"the Thuringian\"), is raised on the shield (a ceremonial investment) by Lombard warriors in Milan. He becomes king of the Lombards, on advice of the Lombard dukes (dux). Agilulf marries widowed queen Theodelinda and is baptized to please her.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751608#Europe", "title": "591", "revid": 1364751608, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}