What happened 572 AD

In 572, after the capitulation of Pavia and its elevation to the royal capital, King Alboin was assassinated in a conspiracy in Verona plotted by his wife Rosamund and her lover, the noble Helmichis, in league with some Gepid and Lombard warriors.

Later in 572, the thirty-five dukes assembled in Pavia to hail king Cleph.

Cleph was king of the Lombards from 572 to 574.

The city was the capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards from 572 to 774.