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Cleph (also Clef, Clepho, or Kleph) was king of the
Lombards from 572 to 574. He
succeeded Alboin, to whom he was not
related by blood. He was a violent...
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applies only to the
Mesopotamian front; in the Caucasus, war continues. King
Cleph is
murdered after an 18-month
reign by a guard, a
slave who he has mistreated...
- hail king
Cleph. The new
monarch extended the
boundaries of the kingdom,
completing the
conquest of
Tuscia and
laying siege to Ravenna.
Cleph tried to...
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Wacho Audoin (546–565), led the
Lombards into
Pannonia Alboin (565–572)
Cleph (572–574) Rule of the
Dukes (Ten year interregnum)
Authari (584–590), son...
- in the face of
opposition from a
majority of the Lombards, who
elected Cleph as Alboin's successor,
forcing Helmichis and
Rosamund to flee to Ravenna...
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Romans and
greater tolerance for the
Christian faith.
Authari was the son of
Cleph, King of the Lombards, and duke of an
unknown city. When the
latter was...
- to s****
Byzantine protection in Ravenna.
Alboin is
succeeded as king by
Cleph, who is not
related by blood.
Theodric succeeds his
brother Æthelric as...
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Spoleto and the Duke of
Benevento were de
facto sovereigns. In 575, when
Cleph died, a
period known as the Rule of the Dukes, in
which the
dukes governed...
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nearby is the m****ive
Sacra di San Michele. In 574, the
Lombard King
Cleph built a
castle here.
According to some sources, the
battle between the Franks...
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patricius and son of the Gallo-Roman
count of Auxerre, and are
driven out. King
Cleph completes the
Lombard conquest of
Tuscany (Central Italy) and
extends his...
