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See also:LIUDPRAND (LIUTPRAND, LUITPRAND) (c. 922-972) , See also:Italian historian and author, See also:bishop of See also:Cremona, was See also:born towards the beginning of the See also:roth See also:century, of a See also:good Lombard See also:family. In 931 he entered the service of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Hugo of See also:Italy as See also:page; he afterwards See also:rose to a high position at the See also:court of Hugo's successor Berengar, having become See also:chancellor, and having been sent (949) on an See also:embassy to the See also:Byzantine court. Falling into disgrace with Berengar on his return, he attached himself to the See also:emperor See also:Otto I., whom in 961 he accompanied into Italy, and by whom in 962 he was made bishop of Cremona. He was frequently employed in See also:missions to the See also:pope, and in 968 to See also:Constantinople to demand for the younger Otto (afterwards Otto II.) the See also:hand of See also:Theophano, daughter of the emperor Nicephorus See also:Phocas. His See also:account of this embassy in the Relatio de Legatione Constantinopolitana is perhaps the most graphic and lively piece of See also:writing which has come down to us from the loth century. The detailed description of Constantinople and the Byzantine court is a document of rare value—though highly coloured by his See also:ill reception and offended dignity. Whether he returned in 971 with the embassy to bring Theophano or not is uncertain. Liudprand died in 972.
He wrote (I) Antapodoseos, seu rerum per Europam gestarum, Libri VI, an See also:historical narrative, See also:relating to the events from 887 to 949, compiled with the See also:object of avenging himself upon Berengar and Willa his See also:queen; (2) Historia Ottonis, a See also:work of greater impartiality and merit, unfortunately covering only the years from 96o to 964; and (3) the Relatio de Legatione Constantinopolitana (968-969). All are to be found in the Monum. Germ. Hist. of See also:Pertz, and in the Rer. Ital. Script. of See also:Muratori; there is an edition by E. See also:Dummler (1877), and a partial See also:translation into See also:German, with an introduction by W. See also:Wattenbach, is given in the second See also:volume of the Geschichtsschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit (1853). Compare Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen See also:im Mittelalter. Three other See also:works, entitled Adversaria, Chronicon, 606-960, and Opusculum de vitis Romanorum pontificum, are usually, but wrongly, assigned to Liudprand. An See also:English translation of the embassy to Constantinople is in Ernest See also:Henderson's Select Documents of the See also:Middle Ages (See also:Bohn See also:series, 1896). A See also:complete bibliography is in A. See also:Potthast's Bib!. Hist. Medii Aevi (See also:Berlin, 1896).
End of Article: LIUDPRAND (LIUTPRAND, LUITPRAND) (c. 922-972)
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