Kingdom of the Lombards in Noricum

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Was the first kingdom of the Lombards, a Germanic people, during the Migration Period (also known as the Barbarian Invasions). It was located in Noricum, modern-day eastern Austria. The Lombards later left Noricum and estblished themselves in the Italian Peninsula.

Establishment

January 488: Feletheus' Rugii were utterly defeated by Odoacer in 487. Many came into captivity and were carried to Italy, and subsequently, Rugiland was settled by the Lombards.

Chronology

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1. Collapse of the Kingdom of the Rugii

The Rugii were utterly defeated by Odoacer in 487, and subsequently, Rugiland was settled by the Lombards.

2. Lombard-Gepid War (567)

Was a war between the Kingdom of the Gepids on one side and the Lombards and the Avar Khaganate on the other side.

2.1.Collapse of the Gepid Kingdom

The Gepids were defeated by the Avars and Lombards in 567 and their kingdom destroyed.

January 568: Sirmium and the Dalmatian coast reverted to the Byzantines.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 527: An alliance with Byzantium and the Franks allowed king Vacon to exploit the convulsions that shook the Ostrogothic kingdom after the death of king Theodoric in 526: he thus subdued the Suebi present in the region and occupied Pannonia I and Valeria (present-day Hungary west and south of the Danube).

January 541: Audoinus usurped the ostrogoth throne and modified the framework of his predecessor's alliances, agreeing (in 547 or 548) with the Byzantine emperor Justinian I to occupy the province of Savense and part of Pannonia of Noricum, in order to line up again against the old Franks and Gepids allies and allow Justinian to have secure communication routes with Italy.

January 552: In surviving records, the Bavarian name was first mentioned historically by the Franks in a list of peoples, prepared in c. 520 AD. The first document that also describes their location (east of the Swabians) is the History of the Goths by the historian Jordanes dating from 551 AD. Probably the Bavarians invaded Austria and southeastern Germany at the time of the Gothic-Byzantine wars.

Disestablishment

January 569: To guarantee himself protection, Alboin made a new agreement with the Avars by offering them the lands occupied until then in Pannonia. However, if the invasion failed, the Lombards would have regained Pannonia.

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Kingdom of the Lombards in Noricum

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