King Bernhard Lombardy ITALY

   Other names for Bernhard were Bernard, ITALIA König, ITALY King and LOMBARDY King.

   Ancestral File Number: 9G83-46. User ID: 19363578928.

   General Notes:

King of LOMBARDY, King of ITALY Reigned 813-818.

BOOKS
Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted Butler Bernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p77: "298T Bernard, King of Lombardy, (S of 286, F of 310)."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Macropaedia, Vol XI, p116, Louis I the Pious Emperor: "[Louis] also confirmed Bernard, the son of his dead brother Pepin, as king of Italy, which position Charlemagne had allowed him to inherit in 813. But when Bernard revolted in 817, Louis had him blinded, and he died as a result of it..."
Vol IX, p1120, Italy History of: "...From the death of Pepin (810) until 887, Italy was governed by Carolingian princes, and, inspite of the dimemberments to which the empire was subjected, it retained the political and territorial setup of the time of the Carolingian conquest. Bernard, son of Pepin, eventually rebelled, but he was captured, and blinded and died in 818. His successor, Lothair I, son of Louis Ithe Pious, took on the title of emperor..."

INTERNET
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ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 9G83-46.

   Marriage Information:

Bernhard married Queen Cunigunde ITALY. (Queen Cunigunde ITALY was born about 797 in , , France and died about 835.)