No,
not the Germanic
Langobarden from the Migration era;
This is strictly Medieval, - Lombards as in North Italians from Medieval Lombardy
[fiefdom of Holy Roman Empire]
This [Medieval] Region -
Roger I of Hauteville married
Adelaide del Vasto and granted
Lombard [Christians / Latins] settlers {from Medieval Lombardy} to settle in Eastern Sicily
post# 6 -
The East was granted to Lombard (Christian / Latin) settlers; hence 7.1% R1b U-152 -Boattini 2013
post# 8 -
Both U-106 and R1a is very scarce in North West Italy [Boattini 2013 + other studies],
on the other hand U-152 is very dominant 32.2% -Boattini 2013 in NW Italy;
Thats my connection and logic; U-152 = Lombards {from Lombardy
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The Medieval
Lombards were always allies of the
Normannic south; from the beginning of their conquest against the
Byzantines;
- Battle of Montemaggiore / Battle of Olivento
Ioannes Skylitzes - 11th cen. Byzantine
Michael was defeated and lost the better part of his army, he shamefully taking refuge in Cannae. Crippled like this he was none the wiser for his wound.....took back into battle his defeated forces together with the Pisidians and Lycaonians who make up the unit of the foederati and fell on the enemy at a place called Horai. Again he was severely defeated by the Franks who had now allied with themselves a considerable host of Italians living around the river Po and in the foothills of the Alps.
The
Lombards of Sicily;
Prof. Will Seymour Monroe - Spell of Sicily: The Garden of the Mediterranean (1909)
The Lombards have also retained a degree of their original purity. They accompanied Adelaide of Montferrat, wife of Roger I, to Sicily and colonized at San Fratello, Nicosia, Randazzo, Sperligna, Capizzi, and elsewhere. They are tall, broad-shouldered, and fair, and more enterprising than most of the other inhabitants. Because of their keen monetary sense they are sometimes nicknamed "Sicilian Jews". The Lombard dialect is still spoken among them.
William Harrison De Puy - The Encyclopædia Britannica: Vol.XXII (1893)
In Sicily there were many nations all protected by the Sicilian king ; but there was no Sicilian nation.
Greek, Saracen, Norman, Lombard, and Jew could not be fused into one people; it was the boast of Sicily that each kept his laws and tongue undisturbed. Such a state of things could live on only under an enlightened despotism; the discordant elements could not join to work out really free and national 'institutions.
William Agnew Paton - Picturesque Sicily (1897)
The latter curious town, situated high in the mountains, is inhabited by a people who speak a Lombard dialect, which testifies to their descent from the mercenaries who accompanied Roger in his first Sicilian campaign.
~1000 years later the
Lombards still speak their
Gallo-Italic language in Sicily;