Arioald was the Lombard king of

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from 626 to 636. Duke of

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, he married the princess Gundeberga, daughter of King

Agilulf Agilulf ( 555 – April 616), called ''the Thuringian'' and nicknamed ''Ago'', was a duke of Turin and king of the Lombards from 591 until his death. A relative of his predecessor Authari, Agilulf was of Thuringian origin and belonged to t ...

and his queen Theodelinda. He was, unlike his father-in-law, an

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who did not accept

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. Arioald deposed Agilulf's heir

Adaloald Adaloald (c. 602–628) was the Lombard king of Italy from 616 to 626. He was son and heir of King Agilulf and his Catholic queen Theodelinda. He was baptised shortly after his birth in 602; the abbot Secundus of Non (later historian) w ...

with the support of the nobility, for Adaloald had gone mad. Upon becoming king, he had his wife locked up in a

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, accusing her of plotting against him with Tasson,

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. He also reestablished Arianism in the Lombard kingdom. His only recorded wars were against the Avars, whom he succeeded in repelling during an attempted invasion of northeast Italy.

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