Marepaphias

Marepaphias (also marpahis or marepahis) was a Lombard title of Germanic origin meaning "master of the horse," probably somewhat analogous to the Latin title comes stabuli or constable. According to Grimm, it came from mar or mare meaning "horse" (see modern English mare) and paizan meaning "to put on the bit".[1]

It has been translated as "shield-bearer".[2]

Notes
  1. Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconus) (1907), "Chapter VI", in Foulke, William Dudley (translator) (ed.), History of the Langobards: Book 2, University of Pennsylvania, archived from the original on 17 May 2008
  2. Cawley, Charles, Northern Italy: A. Dukes of Friulia (569)-625, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,

References
  • Cawley, Charles, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy Missing or empty |title= (help),
  • Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconus) (1907), Foulke, William Dudley (translator) (ed.), Historia Langobardorum, University of Pennsylvania

Further reading
  • Hodgkin, Thomas. Italy and her Invaders. Clarendon Press, 1895.
  • Abel, Otto. Paulus Diakonus und die ubrigen Geschichtschreiber der Langobarden. 2nd edition revised by Dr. Reinhard Jacobi. Leipzig, 1888.
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