Quotes About Lombards

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

North of the Alps almost any Italians engaged in banking were indiscriminately called "Lombards," and Lombard Street was the center of the financial district of London.

Shortly thereafter in 756 Pepin also bestowed on the pope a special "Donation," which gave the pope control of Italian territories won by Pepin from the Lombards and also committed his successors to act as protectors of the papacy.