Siege of Pavia (773–74)

The siege of Pavia, the capital of the Lombard kingdom, by the Frankish army of Charles the Great was held in the winter and spring of 773/74. It took nine months and ended on June 4, 774 with the capture of the city by the Franks.

With this defeat and the subsequent taking of Bergamo, the history of the Lombard kingdom ended up as an independent state. Charlemagne took the day after the conquest, on 5 June 774 the title "King of the Lombards " to. His defeated opponents and father- Desiderius he banished into the Frankish monastery of Corbie.