Bernard (797 Vermandois Picardy – 17 April 818 Milan Lombardy) was the King of the Lombards from 810 to 818. He plotted against his uncle Emperor Louis the Pious when the latter’s Ordinatio Imperii made Bernard a vassal of his cousin Lothair. When his plot was discovered Louis had him blinded a procedure which killed him.
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