- Rome. The
Gepids were
defeated by the
Lombards and
Avars a
century later in 567, when
Constantinople gave no
support to them. Some
Gepids joined the...
- Cunimund, king of the
Gepids, and wife of Alboin, king of the Lombards.
Rosamund was born into a
kingdom in crisis, as the
Gepid people had been fighting...
- whom he
promised the
Gepids' land if they
defeated them. The
Gepids were destro**** by the
Avars and the
Lombards in 567.
Gepid King
Cunimund was killed...
- the
Gepids. The
Lombard king
Audoin defeated the
Gepid leader Thurisind in 551 or 552, and Audoin's
successor Alboin eventually destro**** the
Gepids in...
- brother-in-law of Sigebert, who
sought an
alliance to
crush his old
enemies the
Gepids. The latter, by chance,
controlled the only
practical way from the Lower...
-
their larger neighbours the
Gepids and
Lombards broke out, but this
rebellion was
repressed by Justinian. In 549, when the
Gepids fought the Romans, and Heruli...
-
Mauricius (born
before 520 – 536) was a
Gepid general fighting for the
Byzantine Empire. He was the son of
Magister militium Mundus. He was presumably...
- died c. 560) was king of the
Gepids, an East
Germanic Gothic people, from c. 548 to 560. He was the
penultimate Gepid king, and
succeeded King Elemund...
-
Ardaric (Latin: Ardaricus; fl. c. 450 AD) was the king of the
Gepids, a
Germanic tribe closely related to the Goths. He was "famed for his
loyalty and...
- and
conflict between the
Lombards and
their main neighbours, the
Gepids. The
Gepids initially gained the
upper hand, but in 567,
thanks to his alliance...