Though her name has been taken to imply that she was from Lombardy, it rather indicates that she was from a banking or merchant family, since "Lombard" was used throughout Western Europe in this sense at the time.
Other scholars have suggested, because of her connexion to a lord of Armagnac, that she was from Gascony.
According to her vida, she was noble, beautiful, charming, and learned, skilled at composing songs about fin'amors.
The adjective "noble" and the honorific Na (lady) attached to her name imply that she was married and probably in her early twenties at the time of her poetic activity.
Sometime before 1217, when he claimed Armagnac, Bernart Arnaut, the brother of then-count Geraud V, visited Lombarda and befriended her.