The Langobard Queen Gondiberga Founds the Church of Giovanni Domnarum, 1635, Carlo Andrea Sacchi, Italian, 1616/17 - 1707, 9 11/16 × 13 1/2 in. ( × cm) (plate)13 5/8 × 18 5/8 in. ( × cm) (sheet), Etching, Italy, 17th century, This etching illustrates a scene from the 600s in Lombardy, today in northern Italy. Queen Gondiberga had been falsely accused of conspiring to poison her husband, the king, who then imprisoned her in a tower for three years. Only when an emissary of another king entreated her husband to put the matter to the 'judgement of God' did the king relent

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