Audelais (also ''Adelais'' or ''Andelais'') was an usurper of the
duchy of Benevento
The Duchy of Benevento (after 774, Principality of Benevento) was the southernmost Lombard duchy in the Italian Peninsula that was centred on Benevento, a city in Southern Italy. Lombard dukes ruled Benevento from 571 to 1077, when it was conq ...
for two years after the death of
Romuald II. He overthrew Romuald's son and heir,
Gisulf II.
Liutprand, King of the Lombards, came down and removed both Gisulf and Audelais and placed his own candidate,
Gregory, on the throne.
Sources
Notes of the ''Historia Langobardorum'' at Northvegr
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Dukes of Benevento
Lombard warriors
8th-century rulers in Europe
8th-century Lombard people