Why did The Lombards Collapse?

Why did The Lombards Collapse?

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[cvanvslivs]

When we talk about Lombards in Italy, people should always know that true “Germanic” Lombards only made up about 5% of the entire population of Italy in early Medieval period. The rest 95% were actually ethnic local Italic-Romans but self-identified as “Lombards”. The pre-modern national identity was extremely fragile. When a Roman lost connection to the central Imperial government, his self-identification would be easily localised according to his local region or rulers. As the minority Germanic people ruled over a majority Roman population from the 5th to the 9th centuries, local Romans eventually lost their Romanness and self identified as Germanic people. “Germanic” Lombards also quickly adopted Roman titles, names, laws, traditions and assimilated into local population. By the 8th century, Lombards were completely Romanised as their ancestral Germanic language, dress and hairstyles had all disappeared. Therefore, modern Italians who live in Lombardy or have a “Lombardi” surname does not automatically made them a “direct descendant of a Scandinavian Longobard”. Their ancestors either had a 95% chance of just being a local Italic-Roman who had an identity crisis or only carried a very insignificant portion of Germanic DNA.

[rennor]

After the fall of Lombardy, many aristocratic Lombard families would flee to the southern part of Italy to the Duchy of Benevento which was never subdued by the Carolinigian Frankish Empire. There they would also found a number of other principalities such as Napoli and Salerno, which would serve as Lombard strongholds for another 300 years untill being at last permanently conquered by the Normans.

[sargylion]

Byzantines and Franks have a dispute

Italy: *sweats profusely*

[alfredotasselli]

Beautiful video as always! As an Italian I like seeing videos correlated to my country’s past. Even if Lombards didn’t remain in power for a long period of time, nowadays a modern Italian region is called Lombardia (Lombardy), it’s incredible.

[Philybats]

I mean it's not like they ceased to exist, they were absorbed into the empire of charlemagne as he crowned himself king of the lombards with the infamous iron crown

[micahistory]

They fell almost as quickly as they rose

[arx]

There's a reason why Rosamund killed Alboin, he made her drink from the skull of her father!

[cryptototalwar]

You should follow up this video to explain the Sicilian Kingdom

[bophadesnutz]

Desiderius is a direct ancestor of mine. It’s a shame his legacy was that of being defeated by Charlemagne

[coopgamingduo]

Roman Empire or Eastern Roman Empire. Byzantine Empire is a artificial construct wich every historian is distancing itself nowadays (and with good reason as it creates more confusion than it clears).

[moviemonster]

In the seventh century, The Byzantines were NOT 'Catholics' but Nicenes. Western Latin Christians would become known as Catholics only after the Schism separated Greek Orthodoxy from the Latin West.

[hejdanli]

Lombard King Pectarit kinda looks like king Eric IX of Sweden.

[boratsagdiyev]

The reason why Italy didn't unified

[epallston]

3 commercials in under 7 mimutes = not watchable.

[rborecki]

Just a small correction: Non-trinitarians believe Jesus was bogotten (born) of God, not created, in the same way a human child is born of the mother an not created by her. Therefore, Jesus is still divine, by virtue of originating from a divine being, but isn't the same person as God.

[micahistory]

Please visit Micahistory 2, it would mean a lot!

[shadowrealm]

Did the Byzantinian empire speak Latin or Greek .. since the Easter romans were mostly Greeks . If Latin .... How did the Greek language survived or does Greek evolved later in from Latin

[Xobralvl]

6:32 looks like the Stockholm emblem thats King Erik the Holy.

[lm]

Lombards collapsed second time when coronavirus spread

[Yannisa]

Because they didn't have good Lombard support

Ok, I'll leave