Grimoald, King of the Lombards

Grimoald
Imaginary portrait of Grimoald in a 19th century incision
ReignDuke of Benevento
King of the Lombards
King of Italy
PredecessorGodepert and Perctarit
SuccessorGaribald
Bornc. 610
Friuli, Italy
Died671
Italy
Burial
Spousea daughter of Aripert I
IssueGaribald
Romuald I of Benevento
HouseBeneventan dynasty
FatherDuke Gisulf II of Friuli
MotherBavarian Princess Ramhilde, daughter of Duke Garibald I of Bavaria.
ReligionArianism

Grimoald or Grimwald (†671) was a 7th-century King of Italy, ruling as Duke of Benevento from 647 to 662, and then as King of the Lombards from 662 until his death in 671.[1]

  1. ^ Chris Wickham, Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society, 400–1000 (London: Macmillan, 1981), 224–25.