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Aistulf

Aistulf (- d.756) was the Duke of Friuli

Duke of Friuli

The dukes and margraves of Friuli were the rulers of the Duchy of Friuli and March of Friuli in the Midde Ages.The dates given below, when contentious, are discussed in the articles of the respective dukes....
from 744, King of Lombards

Lombards

The Lombards were a Germanic peoples originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the Danube and from there invaded Byzantine Italian peninsula in 568 under the leadership of Alboin....
from 749, and Duke of Spoleto

Duchy of Spoleto

The independent Duchy of Spoleto was a Lombards territory founded about 570 in central Italy by the Lombard dux Faroald I of Spoleto....
from 751. His father was the Duke Pemmo

Pemmo of Friuli

Pemmo or Penno was the Duke of Friuli for twenty six years, from about 705 to his death. He was the son of Billo of Belluno.Pemmo came to the duchy at a time when a recent civil war had ravaged the land....
.

After his brother Ratchis

Ratchis

Ratchis was the Duke of Friuli and King of the Lombards . His father was Pemmo of Friuli. His Rome wife was Tassia. He ruled in peace until he besieged, for reasons unknown, Perugia....
became king, Aistulf succeeded him in Friuli. He succeeded him later as king when Ratchis abdicated to a monastery. Aistulf continued the policy of expansion and raids against the papacy and the Byzantine

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
exarchate of Ravenna

Exarchate of Ravenna

The Exarchate of Ravenna or of Italy was a centre of Byzantine Empire power in Italy, from the end of the 6th century to 751, when the last Exarch was put to death by the Lombards....
. In 751, he captured Ravenna

Ravenna

Ravenna is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The city is inland, but is connected to the Adriatic Sea by a canal. Ravenna once served as the seat of the Western Roman Empire and later the Ostrogoths and the Exarchate of Ravenna....
itself and even threatened Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, claiming a capitation tax.

The popes, thoroughly irritated and alarmed, and hopeless of aid from the Byzantine Emperor, turned to the Carolingian

Carolingian

File:Charlemagne denier Mayence 812 814.jpgThe Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family with its origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century....
mayors of the palace of Austrasia

Austrasia

Austrasia formed the north-eastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of the territory of present-day eastern France, western Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands....
, the effective rulers of the Frankish kingdom

Franks

The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
.

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Aistulf (- d.756) was the Duke of Friuli

Duke of Friuli

Lombards

Duchy of Spoleto

The independent Duchy of Spoleto was a Lombards territory founded about 570 in central Italy by the Lombard dux Faroald I of Spoleto....
from 751. His father was the Duke Pemmo

Pemmo of Friuli

Ratchis

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
exarchate of Ravenna

Exarchate of Ravenna

Ravenna

Rome

Carolingian

Austrasia

Franks

The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
. In 741, Pope Gregory III

Pope Gregory III

Gregory III was pope from 731 to 741.A Syriacs by birth, he succeeded Pope Gregory II in March 731. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the Iconoclasm controversy in the Byzantine Empire, in which he vainly invoked the intervention of Charles Martel....
asked Charles Martel

Charles Martel

Charles "The Hammer" Martel was proclaimed Mayor of the Palace and ruled the Franks in the name of a Titular ruler. Late in his reign he proclaimed himself Duke of the Franks and by any name was de facto ruler of the Frankish Realms....
to intervene, but he was too busy elsewhere and declined. In 753, Pope Stephen II

Pope Stephen II

Pope Stephen II was a pope of the Roman Catholic Church .The Lombards to the north of Rome had captured Ravenna, former capital of the Byzantine Empire exarchate, in 751, and began to put pressure on Rome....
visited Charles Martel's son Pippin the Short, who had been proclaimed king of the Franks in 751 with the consent of Pope Zachary

Pope Zachary

Saint Zachary , pope . He came from a Greek people family of Calabria. Most probably he was a deacon of the Roman Church and as such signed the decrees of the Roman council of 732; and was on intimate terms with Pope Gregory III, whom he succeeded in December 10 741....
. In gratitude for the papal consent to his coronation, Pippin crossed the Alps

Alps

The Alps is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east; through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany; to France in the west....
, defeated Aistulf, and gave to the pope the lands which Aistulf had torn from the ducatus Romanus and the exarchate (Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna is an administrative Regions of Italy of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of 20,124 km? and about 4.3 million inhabitants....
and the Pentapolis

Pentapolis

A pentapolis, from the Ancient Greek words penta 'five' and polis 'city' is geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities....
).

Aistulf died hunting in 756. He was succeeded by Desiderius

Desiderius

Desiderius was the last king of the Lombards of northern Italy . He is chiefly known for his connection to Charlemagne, who married his daughter and conquered his realm....
as king of the Lombards and by Alboin

Alboin of Spoleto

Alboin was the Lombards Duke of Spoleto from 757 to 758. He was chosen to be duke by the Spoletan nobility without the assent of the king.While Pope Stephen II was working to give the kingdom into the hands of Desiderius, he also worked to give the homage of the Duchy of Benevento and Duchy of Spoleto to King Pepin the Short of the Franks....
as duke of Spoleto. He had given Friuli to his brother-in-law Anselm

Anselm, Duke of Friuli

Saint Anselm was a medieval abbot, and later canonised, originally a Lombards nobleman. He was the first abbot of Nonantula.He was the Duke of Friuli in the north-eastern part of Lombards after Aistulf succeeded to the throne of the Lombards....
, abbot of Nonantula, whose sister Gisaltruda he had married, when he succeeded to the kingship in 749.

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