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Cunimund (died 567) was the last king of the Gepids,
falling in the Lombard–Gepid War (567)
against the
Lombards and
Pannonian Avars. The
Gepids had held...
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Rosamund (fl. 572) was a
Lombard queen. She was the
daughter of
Cunimund, king of the Gepids, and wife of Alboin, king of the Lombards.
Rosamund was born...
- (present-day
Sremska Mitrovica) was the
center of the
Gepid State and the king
Cunimund minted golden coins in it.
Justinian I,
angered by
their expansion, made...
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Thurisind died and was
succeeded by his
remaining son
Cunimund, who was
killed by
Alboin in 567.
Cunimund's death marked the end of the
Gepid Kingdom and the...
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short time,
Sirmium was the
center of the
Gepide State and the king
Cunimund minted golden coins in it.
After 567,
Sirmium was
again incorporated into...
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Visigoths Charibert I, king of the
Franks Cissa, king of the
South Saxons Cunimund, king of the
Gepids Charibert I,
Edward James, The
Oxford Dictionary of...
- sovereign's clan. Shortly, in 565, a new war
erupted with the Gepids, now led by
Cunimund, Thurisind's son. The
cause of the
conflict is uncertain, as the sources...
- then the
Gepid king
Cunimund refused to hand back
Sirmium as he had promised. Left
unaided against the
Lombards and Avars,
Cunimund was
defeated and killed...
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Gepids were destro**** by the
Avars and the
Lombards in 567.
Gepid King
Cunimund was
killed by
Alboin himself. The
Avars (led by
their khagan Bayan I) subsequently...
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hereditary enemies of his people, in 567 AD, he then slew
their new king
Cunimund,
fashioned a drinking-cup from his skull, and took his
daughter Rosamund...
