Cunimund

Also known as Kunimund von Gepidate

Cunimund (died 567) was the last king of the Gepids, falling in the Lombard–Gepid War (567) against the Lombards and Pannonian Avars.

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Monarch.name: Cunimund
Monarch.title: King of the Gepids
Monarch.image: Pietro della Vecchia - Rosamund forced to drink from the skull of her father.jpg
Monarch.caption: Rosamund forced to drink from the skull of her father by Pietro della Vecchia (c.1650–1660)
Monarch.reign: c.560–567
Monarch.predecessor: Thurisind
Monarch.successor: none
Monarch.issue: Rosamund
Monarch.father: Thurisind
Monarch.death_date: 567

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date of birth: 0600-01-01
date of death: 0566-00-00

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Cunimund (died 567) was the last king of the Gepids, falling in the Lombard–Gepid War (567) against the Lombards and Pannonian Avars.

==War with the Lombards== ===Background=== The Gepids had held the important city of Sirmium (now Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia) since 536, after taking it from the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. By 549, the Gepids were at war with the Lombards. The Lombards requested and received help from Justinian I in the form of 15,000 troops. This was a relatively large force, and the Gepids quickly came to a truce with the Lombards, but only while the Byzantine soldiers were in the area. There was, more or less, a long feud between the peoples of Thurisind and Audoin, then king of the Lombards.