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The Migration Period, also called the Barbarian Invasions or German: Völkerwanderung (wandering of the peoples), was a period of human migration that occurred roughly between 300 to 700AD in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. These movements were catalysed by profound changes within both the Roman Empire and the so-called lkerwanderung 'barbarian frontier'. Migrating peoples during this period included the Huns, Goths, Vandals, Bulgars, Alans, Suevi, Frisians and Franks, among other Germanic and Slavic tribes.

The migration movement may be divided into two phases: The first phase, between 300 and 500AD, put Germanic peoples in control of most areas of the former Western Roman Empire. The first to formally enter Roman territory — as refugees from the Huns — were the Visigoths in 376. Tolerated by the Romans on condition that they defend the Danube frontier, they rebelled, eventually invading Italy and sacking Rome itself in 410AD, before settling in Iberia and founding a kingdom there that endured 300 years. They were followed into Roman territory by the Ostrogoths led by Theodoric the Great, who settled in Italy itself. In Gaul, the Franks, a fusion of western Germanic tribes whose leaders had been strongly aligned with Rome, entered Roman lands more gradually and peacefully during the 5th century, and were generally accepted as rulers by the Romano-Gallic population. Fending off challenges from the Allamanni, Burgundians and Visigoths, the Frankish kingdom became the nucleus of the future states of France and Germany. Meanwhile, Roman Britain was more slowly invaded and settled by Angles and Saxons.

This supplement focuses on this first period.

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lkerwanderung Greuthingi,Ostrogoths or Heruls Vo Army Commander 1 Any Instinctive Regions

1-3 Any Instinctive Standard, Forest, Coastal Sub-Generals Terrain lkerwanderung

Ally Generals 0-2 Any Instinctive Camp Flexible Camp; Poor or Aver Training & WEAPONRY Characteristics Min Max UG Name Type Quality Shooting Protection Formation MELEE SHOOTING Mandatory Optional Bases Bases Size Noble Cavalry Cavalry Formed Loose Superior - Protected Devastating Charger - - Melee Expert 4 12 4,6 Warrior Cavalry Cavalry Formed Loose Average - Protected Short Spear - Melee Expert - 12 36 4,6 Infantry Tribal Loose Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow - Combat Shy 16 6,8,9 Archers 60 Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow Combar Shy - 0 6,8,9 Skirmishing Javelinmen Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Javelin - Combar Shy 0 18 6,8,9 Heruls only Replace Massed Archers with Infantry Tribal Loose Average Experienced Unprotected - Javelin - Combar Shy 6,8,9 ALL ALL Javelinmen Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Javelin - Combar Shy 6,8,9 Ostrogoths only Formed Remnant Huns Cavalry Average Experienced Unprotected Light spear Javelin - Melee Expert 0 8 4,6 Flexible Notes This list covers the Greuthungi - hopefully meaning 'people of the pebbly coasts’ - Goths from arrival in the Ukraine until the organisation of the Italian Ostrogothic kingdom. The Greuthungi seem to have split up under attack from the Huns. Part joined the Tervingi in entering Roman territory, part remained independent and invaded Italy under Radagaisus, and the larger part became Hunnic subjects from 441 until the break-up of the Hunnic empire. This last part eventually becoming unified as the Ostrogothic nation. Radagaisus army of was mostly Goths, but was also reported to include Rugi, Suevi, Vandals, Burgundians and Alans. After its defeat by Stilicho, 12,000 nobles were conscripted and 10,000 were enslaved.

The most famous achievement of the Greuthungi cavalry was the victory of Adrianople in 378 AD, when their cavalry charged into the rear of a Roman army already engaged to its front. This battle is often considered the start of the process which led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Spears and javelins were their main weapons. Goths are described by a contemporary:Unkempt, tarnished and greasy are the linen garments on their lean backs. Their coats of skin. are drawn up high and cannot reach the calf, their knees are bare and their boots of horsehide are held up by a common knot.

The Heruls came iron the marshy lands around Lake Maeotis and were renowned for their swift-footed light infantry. Their cavalry were said by Procopius not to have worn metal armour or helmets, but to be protected only by shields and thick jackets. They charged furiously hurling javelins, on one occasion at a different enemy unit to that they were ordered to attack. The slaves that accompanied them were not allowed shields until they had proved themselves brave. He also comments that for a Herul not to give himself to treachery and drunkenness is so unusual as to merit abundant praise. Herul raiding boats in 455 had crews of 55 men. Vo Asding and Siling Vandals Army Commander 1 Any Instinctive Regions

1-3 Any Instinctive Standard, Forest Sub-Generals Terrain lkerwanderung Unfortified; Poor or Average 0-2 Any Instinctive Ally Generals Camp Opt: Mobile camp as Loaded wagons, flocks and herds; Poor

Training & WEAPONRY Characteristics Min Max UG Name Type Quality Shooting Protection Formation MELEE SHOOTING Mandatory Optional Bases Bases Size Noble Cavalry Cavalry Formed Loose Superior - Protected Devastating Charger - - Melee Expert 4 12 4,6 Foot Warriors Infantry Tribal Flexible Average Protected Devastating Charger - - - 30 120 6,8,9 Upgrade Foor Warriors Infantry Tribal Flexible Superior Protected Devastating Charger - - Melee Expert 0 up to 1/4 6,8 Archers Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow Combar Shy - 9 18 6,8,9 Skirmishing Javelinmen Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Javelin - Combar Shy 0 36 6,8,9 Renegade Huns and Alans Cavalry Formed Flexible Average Experienced Unprotected Light spear Javelin - Melee Expert 0 8 4,6 Vandal Allies Alan ally up to 1 contingent 406-420AD Notes This list covers the Asding and Siling Vandals from their first appearance (200AD) until consolidation of their African conquests and construction of a fleet (442AD). They are associated with the Przeworsk culture and were possibly the same people as the Lugii. Expanding into Dacia during the Marcomannic Wars and to Pannonia during the Crisis of the Third Century, the Vandals were confined to Pannonia by the Goths around 330 AD, where they received permission to settle by Constantine the Great. Around 400 the Vandals were pushed westwards again, this time by the Huns, crossing the Rhine into Gaul along with other tribes in 406. They continued on across the Pyrenees into Spain in 409. Although the Suevi and a faction of the Alans invaded Spain at the same time, they were not only not allied with these but fought them incessantly (as did the Silings and Asdings each other). The Siling and Alan states in Spain were destroyed in 416 by the Visigoths on behalf of Rome, and the Asdings and an Alan remnant finally crossed to Africa in 428 AD, taking Carthage by treachery in 439 AD.

Vo Tervingi early Visigoths Army Commander 1 Any Instinctive Regions

1-3 Any Instinctive Standard, Forest Sub-Generals Terrain lkerwanderung Unfortified; Poor or Average 0-2 Any Instinctive Ally Generals Camp Opt: Mobile camp as Loaded wagons, flocks and herds; Poor

Training & WEAPONRY Characteristics Min Max UG Name Type Quality Shooting Protection Formation MELEE SHOOTING Mandatory Optional Bases Bases Size Noble Cavalry Cavalry Formed Loose Superior - Protected Short Spear - - Melee Expert 4 12 4,6 Foot Warriors Infantry Tribal Close Average Protected Devastating Charger - - - 30 120 6,8,9 Warriors with clubs Infantry Tribal Close Superior Protected Devastating Charger - Melee Expert 0 24 6,8 Archers Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow Combar Shy - 9 18 6,8,9 Skirmishing Javelinmen Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Javelin - Combar Shy 0 36 6,8,9 Renegade Huns and Alans Cavalry Formed Flexible Average Experienced Unprotected Light spear Javelin - Melee Expert 0 8 4,6 Tervingi Allies Ostrogoths ally up to 1 contingent 250-270AD Late Roman ally up to 1 contingent from 416AD Notes This list covers the Tervingimen of the forest from their arrival on the Dniester ,200AD, until the organisation of the Visigothic Tolosan kingdom in Spain. They joined the Heruls in raiding by boat, notably in 267. Unlike the Greuthingi, most were still infantry and many horses and weapons were confiscated when they fled the Huns into East Roman territory in 376. They are described as forming up on a hill with the intention of charging down it and fighting with javelins and swords in dense formation. In one battle a Roman line was penetrated by a band throwing massive fire-hardened wooden clubs. They won a crushing victory at Adrianople in 378, but after the death of their long in 380 leaving no credible successor, were settled by treatyand provided recruits for Roman regular units.

Following the decisive Gothic victory at Adrianople, Julius, the magister militum Eastern Roman Empire, organized a widescale massacre of Goths in Asia Minor, Syria and other parts of the Roman East.Fearing rebellion, Julian lured the Goths into the confines of urban streets from which they could not escape and massacred soldiers and civilians alike.

The Goths remained divided – as Visigoths and Ostrogoths – during the 5th Century. These two tribes were among the Germanic peoples who clashed with the late Roman Empire during the Völkerwanderung . A Visigothic force led by Alaric I sacked Rome in 410. Honorius granted the Visigoths Aquitania, where they defeated the Vandals and conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula by 475

Vo Ripuarians and Salians Early Franks Army Commander 1 Any Instinctive Regions

1-3 Any Instinctive Standard, Forest Sub-Generals Terrain lkerwanderung Unfortified; Poor or Average 0-2 Any Instinctive Ally Generals Camp Opt: Mobile camp as flocks and herds; Poor

Training & WEAPONRY Characteristics Min Max UG Name Type Quality Shooting Protection Formation MELEE SHOOTING Mandatory Optional Bases Bases Size Cavalry Formed Loose Superior - Protected Short Spear - Melee Expert - Nobles 0 8 4,6 Infantry Tribal Close Superior Protected Impact Weapon - Melee Expert Fanatic Foot Warriors Infantry Tribal Flexible Average Unskilled Protected Impact Weapon Javelin - - 30 120 6,8,9 Upgrade Foor Warriors Infantry Tribal Flexible Superior Unskilled Protected Impact Weapon Javelin - - 0 up to 1/4 6,8 Archers Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow Combar Shy - 9 18 6,8,9 Skirmishing Javelinmen Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Javelin - Combar Shy 0 18 6,8,9 Allies Alamanni ally up to 1 contingent Notes The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes that was originally composed of a mix of groups settled between the Rhine and the Weser Rivers. The two most prominent of these tribes were the Ripuarians and the Salians who led the others.The Franks appear in Latin sources for the first time in 257 CE, mentioned among the enemies of Rome in northern Gaul. They were a threat not only by land but also on the sea. Late in the 3rd century CE, some of the Franks joined the Saxons in the southern part of the North Sea and the English Channel, turning into raiders, preying on shipping lanes, and also raiding the coast of Britain and Gaul. Under the rule of Emperor Maximianus, the Romans signed a treaty with the Franks in 287AD; as part of the agreement, several Franks became enlisted in the Roman army

In 451AD, Attila the Hun invaded Gaul, and the Franks joined the Romans and the Visigoths to resist the invasion. Attila's conquest was halted in June 451AD at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, and he retreated from Gaul. The Franks continued to provide military support to Rome to fight against imperial enemies, including the Visigoths in 463 CE and the Saxons at Angiers in 469 CE.

The Franks were the most successful of the tribes attacking the Romans, absorbing most of Alamannic Gaul in 506. The Frankish warriors used the francisca throwing axe that gives them their name, and a heavy throwing spear called the angon. According to Ammianus they "enter eagerly into wars", are stronger and taller than Roman soldiers, of huge size,savage and uncontrollable and exhibit extreme resolution. He also describes the elite warriors as a fiery band of nobles among whom even the kings fought, fighting in frenzied rage and leaving themselves unguarded and striving to lavish their lives tor victory.

Only one TuG of Nobles is permitted per command, as Generals bodyguards The Francisca is classified as a Javelin for shooting purposes. Suevi, Quadi, Alamanni Vo Army Commander 1 Any Instinctive Regions

1-3 Any Instinctive Standard, Forest Sub-Generals Terrain lkerwanderung Unfortified; Poor or Average 0-2 Any Instinctive Ally Generals Camp Opt: Mobile camp flocks and herds; Poor

Training & WEAPONRY Characteristics Min Max UG Name Type Quality Shooting Protection Formation MELEE SHOOTING Mandatory Optional Bases Bases Size Nobles Cavalry Formed Loose Superior - Protected Short Spear - Melee Expert - 0 8 4,6 Foot Warriors Infantry Tribal Flexible Average - Protected Impact Weapon - - - 30 120 6,8,9 Upgrade Foor Warriors Infantry Tribal Flexible Superior - Protected Impact Weapon - - - 0 up to 1/4 6,8 Infantry Tribal Loose Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow - - 9* Archers 32 6,8,9 Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow Combar Shy - 9 Skirmishing Javelinmen Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Javelin - Combar Shy 0 18 6,8,9 Quadi Change Nobles to Sarmatized Cavalry Formed Loose Superior - Protected Charging Lancer - Melee Expert - 0 All 4,6 Quadi Allies Sarmatian ally up to 1 contingent - 270 AD Alamanni Allies Herul Allies up to 1 contingent - in 286 AD Burgundi Allies up to 1 contingent - in 286 AD Suevi Allies Late Roman Allies up to 1 contingent - in 419 AD Early Ostrogothic allies up to 1 contingent - in 471 AD

Notes Suevi was a collective term for the German tribes of the upper Danube that invaded across the frozen Rhine in 406, crossed into Spain in 409 at the same time as the Vandals and some of the Alans and set up a kingdom in its north-west corner. This was absorbed by the Visigoths in 584. The rest of the Alamanni went no further than Gaul and were absorbed by the Franks in 506. This list covers those tribes 250 AD to 586 AD

These tribes had abandoned the earlier German light frames for heavier throwing Weapons - bebrae - that could ruin a shield or penetrate armour. However,Alamannic graves often have only bow plus axe or knife and in 354 their archers stopped a Roman river crossing. Alamanni are described as having dyed their hair red, according to their custom.

* minimum applies only to the Alamanni Kingdom of Gepidia Vo Army Commander 1 Any Instinctive Regions

Sub-Generals 1-3 Any Instinctive Terrain Standard lkerwanderung Unfortified; Poor or Average 0-2 Any Instinctive Ally Generals Camp Opt: Fortified Camp as Wagon Laager , Average or Poor

Training & WEAPONRY Characteristics Min Max UG Name Type Quality Shooting Protection Formation MELEE SHOOTING Mandatory Optional Bases Bases Size Nobles Cavalry Formed Loose Superior - Protected Short Spear - Melee Expert Dismountable 4 8 4,6 Warrior Cavalry Cavalry Formed Loose Average - Protected Short Spear - Melee Expert Dismountable 12 32 4,6 Spearmen Infantry Tribal Flexible Average - Protected Devastating Chargers - - - 16* 32 6,8,9 Infantry Tribal Loose Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow - - 9* Archers 32 6,8,9 Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow Combar Shy - 9 Skirmishing Javelinmen Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Javelin - Combar Shy 0 18 6,8,9 Allies Vandal Allies up to 1 contingent Herul Allies up to 1 contingent - Battle of Nedao in 454 Ostrogoth Allies up to 1 contingent - Battle of Nedao in 454 Thuringian Allies up to 1 contingent - Battle of Nedao in 454 Notes The Gepids are first recorded in the 6th-century as having been allied with the Goths in the invasion of Dacia in c. 260. In the 4th century, they were incorporated into the Hunnic Empire. Under their leader Ardaric, the Gepids united with other Germanic tribes and defeated the Huns at the Battle of Nedao. After the battle the Hunnic Empire disintegrated and the Gepids became the dominant power in the eastern regions of the Carpathian Basin.

The Gepids joined a coalition formed by the Suevi, Scirii, Sarmatians formed against the Ostrogoths.The Ostrogoths, however, routed the united forces of their enemies in the Battle of Bolia in 469. After the Ostrogoths left Pannonia in 473, the Gepids captured Sirmium (now Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia). Thraustila, King of the Gepids, tried to hinder the Ostrogoths from crossing the river Vuka during Theoderic the Great's campaign against Italy, but the Ostrogoths routed Thraustila's army. Theoderic the Great dispatched one comes Pitzia to launch a campaign against the Gepids who either tried to capture Sirmium or wanted to get rid of Theoderic's suzerainty in 504. Comes Pitzia expelled the Gepid troops from Sirmium without much resistance. In an attempt to take advantage of the death of Theoderic the Great in 526, the Gepids invaded the region of Sirmium in 528 or 530, but were defeated.

The Gepids reached the zenith of their power after 537, settling in the rich area around Singidunum. For a short time, the city of Sirmiumwas the centre of the Gepid State. In 546 the Byzantine Empire allied themselves with the Lombards, and in 552 the Gepids suffered a disastrous defeat from Alboin, king of the Lombards, in the Battle of Asfeld, after which Alboin had a drinking cup made from the skull of Cunimund.

Jordanes reports that their name is from gepanta, an insult meaning "sluggish, stolid"

*Minimum applies only if any infantry are used. Burgundi and Limigantes Vo Army Commander 1 Any Instinctive Regions

1-3 Any Instinctive Standard, Forest Sub-Generals Terrain lkerwanderung Unfortified; Poor or Average 0-2 Any Instinctive Ally Generals Camp Opt: Mobile camp as Loaded wagons, flocks and herds; Poor

Training & WEAPONRY Characteristics Min Max UG Name Type Quality Shooting Protection Formation MELEE SHOOTING Mandatory Optional Bases Bases Size Noble Cavalry Cavalry Formed Loose Superior - Protected Short Spear - - Melee Expert 4 8 4,6 Foot Warriors Infantry Tribal Close Average Unskilled Protected Short Spear Javelin - - 45 150 6,8,9 Archers Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow Combar Shy - 9 18 6,8,9

Limigantes Limigantes Cavalry Cavalry Skirmisher Average Experienced Protected Short Spear Javelin - - 4 12 4,6 Notes In the late 3rd century, the Burgundians appear on the east bank of the Rhine, confronting Roman Gaul. Zosimus reports them being defeated by the emperor Probus in 278 in Gaul. At this time, they were led by a Vandal king. A few years later, Claudius Mamertinus mentions them along with the Alamanni, a Suebic people. These two peoples had moved into the Agri Decumates on the eastern side of the Rhine, an area today referred to still as Swabia, at times attacking Roman Gaul together and sometimes fighting each other. He also mentions that the Goths had previously defeated the Burgundians.

Ammianus Marcellinus, claimed that the Burgundians were descended from Romans. The Roman sources do not speak of any specific migration from Poland by the Burgundians (although other Vandalic peoples are more clearly mentioned as having moved west in this period)

In 370, the Emperor Valentinian I enlisted the aid of the Burgundians in his war against the Alamanni. Approximately four decades later, the Burgundians appear again. Following Stilicho's withdrawal of troops to fight Alaric I the Visigoth in AD 406-408, the northern tribes crossed the Rhine and entered the Empire in the Völkerwanderung, or Germanic migrations. Among them were the Alans, Vandals, the Suevi, and possibly some Burgundians. Some Burgundians migrated westwards and settled as foederati in the Roman province of Germania Secunda along the Middle Rhine. Other Burgundians stayed in their previous homeland in Oder-Vistula interfluvial and formed a contingent in Attila's Hunnic army.

The Burgundi differed from the Franks and Suevi in using light javelins instead of francisca, angon or bebrae. Crushed by the Huns at Roman instigation in 436 AD, they were settled in eastern Gaul as foederati. Their kingdom was conquered and absorbed by the Franks in 534.

The Limigantes also used javelins and fought in close wedge, but their cavalry were light skirmishers. They were subjects of the Sarmatians until they rebelled in 334 and were destroyed by Constantine I in 359.

Vo Frisia Old Saxon, Bavarian, Thuringian Army Commander 1 Any Instinctive Regions

1-3 Any Instinctive Standard, Coastal Sub-Generals Terrain lkerwanderung Unfortified; Poor or Average 0-2 Any Instinctive Ally Generals Camp Opt: Mobile camp as flocks and herds; Poor

Training & WEAPONRY Characteristics Min Max UG Name Type Quality Shooting Protection Formation MELEE SHOOTING Mandatory Optional Bases Bases Size Noble Warriors Infantry Tribal Close Superior - Protected Impact weapon - Melee Expert Dismountable 4 18 4,6

Peasant Spearmen Infantry Tribal Close Average - Protected Devastating Chargers - - - 45 150 6,8,9 Archers Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Bow Combar Shy - 9 18 6,8,9 Scouts Infantry Skirmisher Average Experienced Unprotected - Javelin Combar Shy - 9 9 6,8,9 Levy Scrapings Infantry Tribal Close Poor - Unprotected Short Spear - - - 0 24 6,8,9 Notes The Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group native to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany. From the 3rd through the 5th centuries Frisia suffered marine transgressions that made most of the land uninhabitable, aggravated by a change to a cooler and wetter climate. Whatever population may have remained dropped dramatically, and the coastal lands remained largely unpopulated for the next two centuries. When conditions improved, Frisia received an influx of new settlers, mostly Angles and Saxons. These people would eventually be referred to as 'Frisians', though they were not necessarily descended from the ancient Frisia.

By the end of the 6th century, Frisian territory had expanded westward to the North Sea coast and, in the 7th century, southward down to Dorestad. This farthest extent of Frisian territory is sometimes referred to as Frisia Magna. Early Frisia was ruled by a High King, with the earliest reference to a 'Frisian King' being dated 678.

This list covers Frisians, Bavarians and Thuringians until their absorption by the Franks, the Thuringian and Saxon revolt of 555

Noble warriors thought themselves much superior to their followers, initially used a proportion of heavy throwing weapons, and were increasingly likely as time went on to have helmets and mail.

Volkerwanderung 4,6 UG 6,8,9 6,8,9 Size * 32 27 Max Max Bases All 8 8 9 9 Min Bases - - - Optional Melee Expert Dismountable - - - - Characteristics Combar Shy Mandatory Standard, Forest Poor or Laager , Average Camp as Wagon Opt: Fortified Poor Opt: Mobile camp as Ox-wagons; - - - Bow Bow Camp Regions Terrain SHOOTING WEAPONRY - - MELEE Short Spear Devastating Charger Devastating Chargers Protected Protected Unprotected Unprotected Unprotected Protection - - - Shooting Experienced Experienced Superior Average Average Average Average Quality Skirmisher Tribal Close Tribal Tribal Loose Tribal Training & Formation Formed Loose Formed Loose up to 1 contingent - 526 AD to 583 AD up to 1 contingent - 566 AD up to 1 contingent - 566 AD up to 1 contingent - 568 AD to 574 AD up to 1 contingent - 568 AD to 583 AD Any Instinctive Any Instinctive Any Instinctive 1 1-3 0-2 Type Infantry Cavalry Cavalry Infantry Infantry

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Suevi Allies Frankish Allies Allies Avar Saxon Allies Bulgar Allies Noble Cavalry Followers Archers Regrade followers as Foot their County of Sicily. and shielded archers. The Strategikon says that Lombard cavalry frequently dismount and unarmoured cavalry, The Lombards primarily fought as armoured cavalry, charge impetuously without discipline whether mounted or on foot. at the rate of 1 Follower base per Noble base with the Noble Cavalry, * Followers form the rear ranks of a mixed TuG Gothic War (535–554) between after the long Gothic War which had become severely depopulated and devastated to lead his people to Italy, Alboin decided Following this victory, Bulgars, Thuringians, and Ostrogoths, and their there. The Lombards were joined by numerous Saxons, Heruls, Gepids, the Byzantine Empire and the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the principal cities Po River except Pavia, which fell in 572. At the By late 569 they had conquered all north of Italy north of the invasion of Italy was almost unopposed. named Regnum Italicum ("Kingdom of later They established a Lombard Kingdom in north and central Italy, and southern Italy. same time, they occupied areas in central Italy King Charlemagne and integrated into his Empire. 8th-century ruler Liutprand. In 774, the Kingdom was conquered by the Frankish Italy"), which reached its zenith under the when they were by the Normans and added to Italian peninsula, well into the 11th century conquered Lombard nobles continued to rule southern parts of the However, from 568 to 774, this list covers the early part of this period - ending at the establishment of the Regnum Italicum. The from 568 to 774, this list covers the early The Lombards ruled large parts of the Italian Peninsula they had end of the 5th century, before migrating to seek new lands. By the who dwelt in southern Scandinavia Winnili, Lombards descended from a small tribe called the Gepids. The where they subdued the Heruls and later fought frequent wars with the modern Austria north of the Danube river, moved into the area roughly coinciding with Battle of Asfeld in 567. Thurisind in 551 or 552; his successor Alboin eventually destroyed the Gepids at the Lombard king Audoin defeated the Gepid leader Notes Allies Before 568AD Before Sub-Generals Generals Ally Army Commander Army Early Lombard Early

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