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Cunimund

died 567 · 6th century

Cunimund was the last king of the Gepids, ruling from about 560 from the region of Sirmium. He fought the Lombards, but in 567 the Lombard king Alboin, allied with the Avars, defeated and killed him, ending the Gepid kingdom. According to Paul the Deacon, Alboin made his skull into a drinking cup and married his daughter Rosamund, who later had Alboin murdered.

Cunimund
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Kingdom of the Gepids

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