Liutbrand

This name derives from Old High German name “Liutbrand,” composed of two elements: “*liudiz,” meaning “man, person, people” plus “*brandaz,” meaning “fire, torch, flaming sword.” 1) Liutprand (~690–744) was king of the Lombards and king of Italy from 712 to 744. Among the greatest Lombard rulers, Catholic, he was “litterarum quidem ignarus” (“rather ignorant in his letters,” according to Paul Deacon in his Historia Langobardorum), but intelligent, energetic and ambitious. 2) Liutprand († after 759) was the Duke of Benevento from the death of his father Gisulf II in 751 until his deposition. 3) Liutprand of Cremona (~920–972), was a historian, diplomat, and Bishop of Cremona born in what is now northern Italy, whose works are an essential source for the politics of the 10th century Byzantine court.