Lombards and Langobards?

by MonsieurOiseaux

So I know that in italian langobard is used to refer to the Germans that conquered most of italy.

Are the people in medieval history called Lombards the descendants of these Langobards or are they a native Latin people who adopted the name because the region they lived in was now called Lombardia?

Rittermeister

They're two names - or, rather, variations on a name - for the same people.