Duchy of Perugia

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Duchy of Perugia
Ducatus Perusianus
Papacy
ca. 752
Today part ofItaly

The Duchy of Perugia was a

Popes, and Ravenna, the capital of the Exarchate. Since it cut off the Duke of Spoleto from his nominal overlord, the king ruling from Pavia
, it also disturbed the Lombard kingdom, which was a constant thorn in the Byzantines' side. This strategic importance meant that many Lombard and Byzantine armies passed through it.

Thomas Noble, an

Liutprand around 727–730, and in so doing broke a truce between the Byzantines and Lombards, thus provoking an assault on Ravenna.[4]

In 749, the Lombard king

With the collapse of the exarchate and the capture of Ravenna by the Lombards in 751,

Ludovicianum that can date no earlier than 774, the cities of the Roman duchy are listed from north to south, with the cities of the duchy of Perugia added to those of Roman Tuscany, indicating that by the time of conquest of the Lombard kingdom by the Franks, Perugia had been incorporated into the Papally-ruled duchy of Rome.[8] In fact, the duchy of Perugia as a distinct political unit cannot be charted later than the 740s.[9]

References

  1. ^ Noble 1984, pp. 3–5.
  2. ^ Noble 1984, pp. 44–48.
  3. ^ Paul the Deacon 1974, VI, 54.
  4. ^ Noble 1984, p. 41.
  5. ^ a b Noble 1984, pp. 56–57.
  6. ^ Noble 1984, p. 57.
  7. ^ Noble 1984, pp. 59, 94–95.
  8. ^ Noble 1984, p. 160.
  9. ^ Noble 1984, p. 182.

Sources

  • Paul the Deacon (1974) [1907]. The History of the Langobards (PDF). Translated by William Dudley Foulke. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania.
  • Noble, Thomas F. X. (1984). The Republic of St. Peter: The Birth of the Papal State, 680–825. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. .

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