Identified by an unbroken historiographical tradition as the most fascinating and eminent of the Longobardi queens, Theodolinda appears to us as an unsurpassed example of wise and pious sovereign, able, despite her own condition as a woman and the complex situation in which she found herself working, to play an important role in the political and religious affairs of her time, supporting both husbands in the difficult attempt, that will come to completion only a century later with Liutprando, to give life to a kingdom of national scope, the result of overcoming religious divisions and the peaceful union of the Lombard and Roman ethnic groups, and foundation of that Regnum Italiae which will have such a large part in the history of medieval Europe.
