Lombards (Part 1/5)

This video is once again from the series Barbarians II and the Lombardi tribe was another German tribe from across the Danube during the decline of the Roman Empire. They ruled a kingdom in Italy from 568 to 774 AD, but was taken away after the Pope sought Charlemagne king of the Franks to retake the Peninsula on which the Vatican sat. The Lombards ruled in an almost Feudalistic system in which there was the king and the dukes with their serfs and other workers under the protection of them in their province.

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