Rotarit

Rotarit (or Rotharit) (died Turin, 702) was a Lombard duke, the last Duke of Bergamo.

In 700, fighting broke out over the succession of the just disappeared king, Cunipert (to which he was faithful), Rotarit stood in favor of his son, Liutpert, who was still underage, and his tutor Ansprand. Opposing him was the Duke of Turin Raginpert, the son of Godepert and therefore an exponent of the ruling Bavarian dynasty. The fighting ended with a battle fought at Novara in early 701, during which Rotarit and his ally Ansprand succumbed. Raginpert, supported by the Lombards of Neustria (the Northwest region of the kingdom) ascended to the throne and immediately associated his son, the future Aripert II.