{"slug": "liutprand-king-of-the-lombards", "label": "Liutprand, King of the Lombards", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liutprand%2C_King_of_the_Lombards", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q251836", "qid": "Q251836", "description": "Lombard king", "entries": 14, "years": 13, "span": [712, 744], "span_label": ["712 CE", "744 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "lombards", "label": "Lombards", "shared": 11}, {"slug": "duchy-of-benevento", "label": "Duchy of Benevento", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-the-lombards", "label": "Kingdom of the Lombards", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "exarchate-of-ravenna", "label": "Exarchate of Ravenna", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "duchy-of-spoleto", "label": "Duchy of Spoleto", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pavia", "label": "Pavia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "february", "label": "February", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alps", "label": "Alps", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "military-alliance", "label": "Military alliance", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": 712, "year_label": "712 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February", "text": "February – King Ansprand dies, and is succeeded by his son Liutprand as ruler of the Lombards. During his reign, Liutprand becomes the greatest of the Lombard Kings. Coins and documents from his court at Pavia confirm the impression of a strong and effective monarch.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357552155#Europe", "title": "712", "revid": 1357552155, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 718, "year_label": "718 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Liutprand of the Lombards builds a close alliance with Charles Martel, and attacks the Bavarian castles on the River Adige, maintaining strategic control of the Alpine passes in the Italian Alps (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367661186#Western_Europe", "title": "718", "revid": 1367661186, "section": "Events › By place › Western Europe"}}, {"year": 725, "year_label": "725 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Liutprand puts Corsica, nominally under Byzantine authority, under Lombard government, defending it from Muslim raids (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340808658#Europe", "title": "725", "revid": 1340808658, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 727, "year_label": "727 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Liutprand takes advantage of the anti-imperial turmoil. He conquers Bologna and other cities beyond the Po River (Northern Italy). The Lombards take \"Classis\", the strategic seaport of Ravenna, and overrun the Pentapolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372352645#Europe", "title": "AD 727", "revid": 1372352645, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 728, "year_label": "728 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "King Liutprand of the Lombards occupies all of the Exarchate of Ravenna. He advances towards Rome along the Via Cassia, and is met at the city of Sutri by Pope Gregory II, near the borders of the Duchy of Rome. Liutprand signs the Donation of Sutri, by which parts of Latium are given to the papacy (the first extension of papal territory in Italy). This marks the historical foundation of the Papal States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340808673#Europe", "title": "728", "revid": 1340808673, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 730, "year_label": "730 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Liutprand contracts an alliance with Eutychius, exarch of Ravenna, and agrees to support him in his attack on Rome, while subjugating the independent southern Lombard duchies of Benevento and Spoleto.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340808684#Europe", "title": "730", "revid": 1340808684, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 733, "year_label": "733 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Duke Audelais of Benevento and his minor son Gisulf are deposed by King Liutprand of the Lombards. He is succeeded by Gregory, who becomes ruler of Benevento.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809659#Europe", "title": "733", "revid": 1340809659, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 735, "year_label": "735 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "King Liutprand of the Lombards raises his nephew Hildeprand to co-kingship, after a serious illness (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809672#Europe", "title": "735", "revid": 1340809672, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 737, "year_label": "737 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Narbonne: Frankish forces under Charles Martel besiege Narbonne, occupied by a Umayyad garrison, but are unable to retake the fortress city. A Lombard army under King Liutprand crosses the Alps, to aid Charles in expelling the Muslims from Septimania. Meanwhile Maurontus, duke or count of Provence, raises a revolt from his unconquered city of Marseille, and threatens the rear of the Franks.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809689#Europe", "title": "AD 737", "revid": 1340809689, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 739, "year_label": "739 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Lombards under King Liutprand sack the Exarchate of Ravenna, and threaten Rome. Pope Gregory III asks Charles Martel, Merovingian mayor of the palace, to help fight the Lombards (he also requests assistance in fighting the Byzantines and the Arabs). Liutprand signs a peace accord, and pulls back his forces to Pavia. After the pope's appeal to the Franks, a relationship begins that will continue as the Frankish Kingdom gains power.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809724#Europe", "title": "739", "revid": 1340809724, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 740, "year_label": "740 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December", "text": "December – King Liutprand of the Lombards attempts to counter the growing independence of the Lombard duchies in southern Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352534655#Europe", "title": "740", "revid": 1352534655, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 742, "year_label": "742 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "King Liutprand of the Lombards meets Pope Zachary at Terni (Central Italy), who appeals to the king's religious faith. Liutprand is a pious Catholic and signs a 20-year peace treaty, restoring the cities of the Duchy of Rome which he has captured. The independent Lombard duchies of Spoleto and Benevento absorb into the Lombard Kingdom.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809740#Europe", "title": "742", "revid": 1340809740, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 744, "year_label": "744 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Liutprand, king of the Lombards", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305046877#Deaths", "title": "744", "revid": 1305046877, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 744, "year_label": "744 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February", "text": "February – King Liutprand of the Lombards dies of natural causes after a 32-year reign, in which he has defeated the dukes of Spoleto and Benevento, bringing the Lombard Kingdom to the height of her power. He is succeeded by Hildeprand, called \"the Useless\" (nephew or grandson of Liutprand), as ruler of the Lombards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305046877#Europe", "title": "744", "revid": 1305046877, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}