'''Corvulus''' (also '''Corvolus''') was the Duke of Friuli for a brief spell in the early eighth century AD ({{c.}} 705 or 706). Virtually nothing is known about his origin and life; he replaced Ferdulf, but he apparently offended King Aripert II and was arrested and had his eyes gouged out. He "lived {{wikt-lang|en|ignominiously}}" in shame as an obscure, blind exile thereafter, according to Paul the Deacon. He was ultimately replaced by Pemmo.
==Name== "Corvulus" literally means "little raven" in Latin, so this may have been a hypocoristic or Latinization for the duke's real birth name (as a likely ethnic Lombard who assimilated to Italo-Roman culture as many like him; cf. Rabanus Maurus, the first name from Old High German {{wikt-lang|goh|raban}}).
==Sources== * Paulus Diaconus. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070212074645/http://www.northvegr.org/lore/langobard/index.php ''Historia Langobardorum'']. Translated by William Dudley Foulke. University of Pennsylvania: 1907. * Hodgkin, Thomas. ''Italy and her Invaders''. Clarendon Press: 1895.
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Category:Dukes of Friuli Category:8th-century dukes in Europe Category:8th-century Lombard people Category:7th-century births Category:8th-century deaths
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