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Cleph (also Clef, Clepho, or Kleph) was king of the
Lombards from 572 to 574. He
succeeded Alboin, to whom he was not
related by blood. He was a violent...
- hail king
Cleph. The new
monarch extended the
boundaries of the kingdom,
completing the
conquest of
Tuscia and
laying siege to Ravenna.
Cleph tried to...
- rest of the
Langobards set over
themselves a king named,
Cleph, of the
stock of Beleos, and
Cleph reigned two
years and died. And the
dukes of the Langobards...
- in the face of
opposition from a
majority of the Lombards, who
elected Cleph as Alboin's successor,
forcing Helmichis and
Rosamund to flee to Ravenna...
- Empire,
which evolved over time into the Holy
Roman Empire.
Alboin (568–572)
Cleph (572–574) Rule of the
dukes (ten-year interregnum)
Authari (584–590) Agilulf...
- aristocrats, the dukes.
Authari was the son of
Cleph, King of the Lombards, and duke of an
unknown city. When
Cleph was
murdered in 574, the
Lombard nobility...
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applies only to the
Mesopotamian front; in the Caucasus, war continues. King
Cleph is
murdered after an 18-month
reign by a guard, a
slave who he has mistreated...
- Byzantines; this
hostility eventually focused around the duke of
Ticinum Cleph,
supporter of an
aggressive policy towards the Empire.
Rather than going...
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Wacho Audoin (546–565), led the
Lombards into
Pannonia Alboin (565–572)
Cleph (572–574) Rule of the
Dukes (Ten year interregnum)
Authari (584–590), son...
- Also
nearby is the m****ive
Sacra di San Michele. In 574, the
Lombard King
Cleph built a
castle here.
According to some sources, the
battle between the Franks...
