Cleph
Cleph[1] (also Clef, Clepho, or Kleph) was king of the Lombards from 572 to 574.He was a violent and terrifying figure to the Romans and Byzantines struggling to maintain control of the Italian Peninsula.He was assassinated after an 18-month reign by a young guard, a slave whom he had mistreated.[2] He was buried in the Church of Santi Gervasio e Protasio in Pavia.This biography of a member of a European royal house is a stub.