Godepert

{{Short description|King of the Lombards from 661 to 662}}

{{Refimprove|date=January 2021}}{{Infobox Monarch

| name = Godepert

| title = King of the Lombards

| reign = 661 – 662

| predecessor = Aripert I

| regent = Perctarit

| reg-type = Co-Monarch

| successor = Grimoald

| death_date = 662

| death_place = Pavia

| father = Aripert I

| religion = Arian

| dynasty = Bavarian dynasty

}}

Godepert (also Gundipert, Godebert, Godipert, Godpert, Gotebert, Gotbert, Gotpert, Gosbert, or Gottbert) was king of the Lombards (crowned 661), eldest son and successor of Aripert I. He was an Arian who governed from the ancient capital, Pavia, while his brother, Perctarit, a Roman Catholic, governed from Milan. In a war with his brother, he beckoned Duke Grimoald I of Benevento, who assassinated him in his Pavian palace, the Reggia.[https://books.google.com/books?id=U40-AAAAYAAJ&dq=Godepert&pg=PA243 Hodgkin, Thomas. Italy and Her Invaders: The Lombard kingdom, 600-744, Clarendon Press, 1895, p. 243] Godepert's son Raginpert managed to escape and would later rule, but first, Grimoald would seize the throne. He was buried in the Basilica of Santissimo Salvatore in Pavia.{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/958478|title= The politics of memory of the Lombard monarchy in Pavia, the kingdom's capital|work= Materializing Memory. Archaeological material culture and the semantics of the past|access-date=29 July 2022|last1= Majocchi|first1= Piero}}