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 | | He had forcibly married the Gepid princess, Rosamund, daughter of King Cunimund, and it was she who had him killed, after he had made her drink from her fathers skull. |
 | | His successor, Cleph, was also murdered soon afterwards and for the next decade the Lombards were ruled by an alliance of, traditionally, thirty-five duces, as a federation under the overall command of one Zaban, who ruled from Pavia. |
 | | Under this threat, and with the presence of hostile Slavs and Avars in Istria, the Lombards re-established a unified monarchy under Authari son of Cleph. |
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