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TIl that Alboin, King of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in War. At one point he made her drink from her father’s skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to “drink merrily with your father.” She had him assassinated.

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