568

This page relates to the year 568 Calendrier Julien.

Events

the Lombards of Pannonia (20 000 men), led by their king Alboin, shaken by the Avars, joined by Gépides, Sarmates, Thuringes, Saxon and Bavarois go on the the Friuli (April 1st), take Aquilée (May 20th) and occupy the Venezia (except the islands where the population took refuge). They attack the Provence but are rejected by the Francs. Encumbered by the presence of the families and the luggage, they advance slowly. At the sides of the warriors, whole people move (200 to 300.000 people).

Lombards occupy most of Italy. Byzantine resistance is very low, because the principal effort is dedicated in the East and in Balkans. Only the cities resist. The population, overpowered tax and victim of a debatable system of spoliation, sees arriving Lombards with a benevolent neutrality.

the Avars advance until in Bavaria and multiply the raids of plundering in the Germanic world, often with the pay of the sovereigns of Western and southernmost Europe.

Liuva Ier (Septimanie, 569 - 572) and Léovigild (Hispanie, 568 - 586) kings of the Visigoths.

Léovigild authorizes the marriage between Visigoths and Romans, removes the remainders of the special jurisdiction which existed for Goths, introduces the Roman relationship for the Visigoths.

War of Frédégonde and Brunehilde: Chilpéric Ier makes strangle his wife Galswinthe (girl of Athanagild, the king of the Visigoths) pushed by his/her concubine, the slave Frédégonde, whom he marries. Brunehilde, sister of Galswinthe and woman of Sigebert Ier involves this one to conquer the Neustrie.

the Huns Hephtalites are driven out Khorasan with the assistance of the Turks You or-kiue.
a Hephtalite is to advise of Khosrô Ier, king of Perse.

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