Alduin or Audoin was king of the Lombards from 539 or 546 to 563 or 565. The Lombards became, under him, a fÅ“deratus of the Byzantines (541), signing a treaty with Justinian I which gave them power in Pannonia and the north. Beginnning in 551, he was obligated to send troops to serve Narses in Italy against the Ostrogoths. The next year (552), he sent over 5,000 men to defeat the Goths on the sides of Vesuvius. He died in 563 or 565 and was succeeded by his son, Alboin, who brought the Lombards into Italia. The Lombards (Latin Langobardi, from which the alternative name Longobards found in older English texts), were a Germanic people originally from Scandinavia that entered the late Roman Empire. ... Events November 29 - Antioch struck by an earthquake. ... Events The Ostrogoths under Totila retake Rome from the Byzantine Empire. ... Events Saint Columba, the Irish missionary, founds his mission to the Picts and his monastery on Iona. ... Events January 22 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. ... Foederatus early in the history of the Roman Republic identified one of the tribes bound by treaty (foedus), who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been granted Roman citizenship (civitas) but were expected to provide a contingent of fighting men when trouble arose. ... The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. ... Events January 1 - Flavius Basilius Junior appointed as consul in Constantinople, the last person to hold this office January 2 - Earthquake strikes Laodicea. ... Justinian I depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the St. ... Position of the Roman province of Pannonia Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. ... Events Jordanes publishes The Origin and Deeds of the Goths. ... Narses (478-573) was, along with Belisarius, one of the two great generals in the service of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. during the so-called Reconquest that took place during the Justinians reign. ... This article deals with the continental Ostrogoths. ... Events July - Battle of Taginae: The Byzantine general Narses defeats and kills Totila, king of the Ostrogoths. ... Mount Vesuvius (Italian: Monte Vesuvio) is a volcano east of Naples, Italy, located at 40°49′N 14°26′ E. It is the only active volcano on the European mainland, although it is not currently erupting. ... Alboin (d. ...
Waltari, therefore, when he had held the sovereignty for seven years, [1] departed from this life, [2] and after him Audoin [3] was the ninth [4] who attained the kingly power (546-565), and he, not long afterwards, led the Langobards into Pannonia.
Audoin answered them that he could by no means do this lest he should break the usage of the nation.
Audoin demanded of Turisind, king of the Gepidae, the delivery of Hildechis, but the latter escaped and wandered about in different countries (Schmidt, 60).
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