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{{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, King of the Lombards|Grimoald]]
| death_date   = 662
| death_place  = [[Pavia]]
| father       = [[Aripert I]]
| religion     = [[Arianism|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 [[Arianism|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''.<ref>[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]</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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[[Category:662 deaths]]
[[Category:7th-century Lombard monarchs]]
[[Category:7th-century Arian Christians]]
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[[Category:Bavarian dynasty]]
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