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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AlabamaHotcakes on 2025-07-11 03:49:46+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about the Lombard queen Rosamund. Taken as a prisoner after her father, last king of the Gepids, lost a war to the Lombardic king Alboin who took her as his wife. He was notably cruel to her, making her drink from her fathers skull at a banquet and she later instigated his assassination.