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Lombards: Latin Langobardi
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The Lombards (Latin Langobardi, from which the alternative name Longobards found in older English texts), were a Germanic group that entered the late Roman Empire. They were known to the Romans from as early as AD 98... when the historian Tacitus mentioned them in his Germania.
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Gregory the Great blocked an Italian conspiracy against the Lombards. Rothari (636–52) became a Roman Catholic. He collected Lombard customary law in Latin and began the consolidation of Lombard power. Eventually Roman law triumphed and Lombard law survived only in the schools (e.g., Pavia).
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Rothari ... made the famous Edict bearing his name, which established the laws and the customs of his people in Latin: the edict did not apply to the tributaries of the Lombards, who could retain their own laws. Rothari's son Rodoald succeeded him in 652, still very young, and was killed by the Catholic party.
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