Anna 7

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexF
FloruitE/M VIII
EthnicityLombard
LocationsBeneventum (Campania) (residence);
Constantinople (residence);
Beneventum (Campania);
Constantinople
Textual SourcesPaulus Diaconus, Historia Gentis Langobardorum, ed. L. Bethmann and G. Waitz, MGH, Scr. Rer. Lang., pp. 12-187; also in MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 48, pp. 49-242 (history)

Anna 7 was the wife of Godescalc 1 (Lombard dux of Beneventum); she escaped by sea to Constantinople with her husband's property when Godescalc 1 was expelled from Beneventum by king Liutprand 1 and killed by his opponents before he could board the ship to join her: Paul. Diac., Hist. Lang. VI 56, 57.

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