Aistulf [SEP] position held
Aistulf
Aistulf (also Ahistulf, Aistulfus, Haistulfus etc.; ; died December 756) was the Duke of Friuli from 744, King of Lombards from 749, and Duke of Spoleto from 751. 
Biography.
Aistulf was born at Cividale, the son Duke Pemmo of Friuli. 
After his brother Ratchis became king, Aistulf succeeded him in Friuli. He succeeded him later as king when Ratchis abdicated, and entered into a monastery. While his brother had been more tolerant with the Roman element of the Italian
him as duke in Cividale and now, after a short struggle, forced him to flee to Rome and finally to become a monk in Monte Cassino.
History 8th century Last kings Aistulf.
Aistulf expressed the more aggressive stance of the dukes, who refused an active role for the Roman population. For his expansionist policy, however, he had to reorganize the army to include, albeit in the subordinate position of light infantry, all ethnic groups in the kingdom. All free men of the kingdom, both those of Roman and Lombard