Byzantine Italy and the Lombards

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10-11th century Lombards & Italian-Normans

10th century Lombards in chainmail hauberk with round shield and spear.

Full image from Exultet Beneventano Ms. Vat. Lat. 9820

Lombard knights & Pagans in an early 11th Century De rerum naturis


Lombard King Rotario Dictating the Law, Codex Legum Longobardorum, 11th century


David in a Polirone Psalter, northern Italy, before 1086AD


"Charlemagne's chess set", Norman Southern Italy, end of the eleventh century
During the late middle ages these were thought to be a present from the Shah of Persia to Charlemagne, but they were not.
. An Italo-Norman knight chess piece
Italo-Norman Heavy Cavalryman in rmies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 by Ian Heath, based on Charlemagne's chess set


MIRROR SITES
10th century Lombards in chainmail hauberk with round shield and spear.
Lombard knights & Pagans in an early 11th Century De rerum naturis
Lombard King Rotario Dictating the Law, Codex Legum Longobardorum, 11th century
David in a Polirone Psalter, northern Italy, before 1086AD
"Charlemagne's chess set", Norman Southern Italy, end of the eleventh century

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers