Adalgis

Adelchis was king of the Lombards.

Adelchis (also Adalgis ) was the son of the last Lombard king Desiderius and his wife Ansa. In the year 759 he ascended in the shadow of his father as co-regent to the throne.

While his father in the year 773 in Pavia still resisted the Frankish invaders to Adalchis resulted in Verona. He managed to flee to Constantinople Opel. His attempts to recover the Lombard crown, failed 788 final, when his landed in Calabria Byzantine troops of Grimoald III. , The Duke of Benevento, were beaten. His fate is unknown.

Alessandro Manzoni wrote in 1822 the tragedy Adelchi (it. Adelgis ).