State · 568 – 774

Kingdom of the Lombards

A state of 568 – 774 — 206 years in Europe. It was replaced by Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire). The atlas records 7 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 6. Its line of rulers holds 8 people, 6 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 206 years; 568 – 774
Rulers: 8; the King of Lombards
Most ground: 219,100 km²; in 755
Within it: 7; recorded rows

Map: Kingdom of the Lombards in 755, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kingdom of the Lombards in 755, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 219,100 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Kingdom of the Lombards in 587, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Kingdom of the Lombards in 755, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire) · replaced by · 774 – 1806

Rulers

The line of King of Lombards.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Alboin	560 – 572	12 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Cleph	572 – 574	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Authari	584 – 590	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Agilulf	591 – 616	25 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Ansprand	712 – 712	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Liutprand, King of the Lombards	712 – 744	32 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

8 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 560 – 744. Median reign 9 years. 1 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

147,700 km² in 588, 204,400 km² in 774; at its largest 210,100 km² in 758. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

500 – 5992 rows

Authari · ruler · 550 – 590
Agilulf · ruler · 555 – 616

600 – 6992 rows

Liutprand, King of the Lombards · ruler · 680 – 744
Ansprand · ruler · 657 – 712

700 – 7993 rows · 1 wars and battles

Paul the Deacon · writer · 720 – 799
Desiderius · person · 710 – 786
Siege of Pavia · battle · 773 – 774

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood206 years
stood longer than 63% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held219,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 60% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median12 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 41% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 547 – 795, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 755, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q854415 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.