Person
Alboin
King of the Lombards (c. 560–572) who destroyed the Gepids together with the Avars and in 568 led his people into Italy; murdered at Verona in a plot involving his wife Rosamund.
- Dates
- 530s – 28 June 572
- Events
- 2 events
- Regions
- Western and Central Europe
- In the threads
- Early medieval Europe (500–1000)
Events
- The Avars settle in the Carpathian Basinbetween 567 and 568 · Western and Central Europe
- Lombard invasion of Italy2 April 568 – 572 · Western and Central Europe