Duchy of Tridentum

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The Lombard Kingdom of Italy with the duchy in the northeast.

The Duchy of Tridentum (Trent) was an autonomous

Alagis, a fervent Arian and opponent of the Lombard king, Perctarit, who was killed in the battle of Cornate d'Adda
(688).

With the collapse of the Lombard kingdom in 773–74, the duchy of Tridentum passed into

secularized and became a part of Austrian Tyrol
.

Notes

  1. ^ Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum, ii.32 (on-line text Archived January 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine); Henry Wace, A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines, vol. II (1880) s.v. "Euin".
  2. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912, s.v. "Trent" (on-line text).
  3. ^ Wace, op. cit.
  4. Secundus of Tridentum
    .
  5. ^ Historia Langobardorum calls him "vir bonus ac fide catholicus", "a good man and of Catholic faith" (iv.10 and 27); Wace, op. cit, s.v. "Gaidoaldus".
  6. ^ Wace, "Gaidoaldus"
  7. ^ In 1004 and 1027 the counties of Bozen/Bolzano and Vintschgau/Val Venosta were added to the Bishop of Trent's territories.
  8. ^ Albert III, the last of the Counts of Tirol (d. 1253), was able to unite the duchies of Trent and Brixen.