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TRANSCRIPT
Roman Britain~47 CE
• Military occupation
• Subject peoples
• Trinovantes
• Client Kingdoms
• Brigantes
• Regni
• Iceni
Caratacus: Out of the Fire & Into the Frying Pan
• Caratacus escapes Claudius and Aulus Plautius
• Allies with Ordovicians in Wales
• Defeated
• Seeks aid from Roman client, Cartimandua
• Is turned over to Romans (51 CE)
• Brought to Rome
Tribes of
Wales
Divorce
• ~57 CE Cartimanduabreaks with her consort Venutius (of the Brigantes) who turns against her and Rome
• She keeps her throne thanks to Roman military intervention
• Venutius?
Roman Britain~47 CE
• Military occupation
• Subject peoples
• Trinovantes
• Client Kingdoms
• Brigantes
• Regni
• Iceni
Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus
• Perhaps successor to Verica
• Granted status by Romans
• Probably built “Palace” at Fishbourne
• Still respected during lifetime of Tacitus
Dedication to Minerva and Neptune
A temple to Neptune and to Minerva
and for the safety of the Divine House (of the emperor)
by the authority of Ti. Claudius Cogidubnus.
[Great King] in Britain, (erected by)
The Guild of fabri and its members at their own cost
[Pudens?] son of Pudentmus, donated the site.
Roman Britain~47 CE
• Military occupation
• Subject peoples
• Trinovantes
• Client Kingdoms
• Brigantes
• Regni
• Iceni
Publius Ostorius Scapula
• First act was to disarm the Britons within the Roman controlled region
• 47 Fortification of Colchester
• Attacks Deceangeli in Flintshire
• Legio XX transferred to southwest
• 49 Foundation of colonia at Camulodunum(Colchester) Colonia Claudia Victricensis
What 1st Century Briton joined 20th
Century notables: Winston, Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher, in the list of “100 Greatest Britons”?
Question
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Problems Behind the Lines
• Proud and independent people
• Displacement of Trinovantes alarms Iceni
• Temple of Claudius
• Death of Prasugatus, King of the Iceni– Question of inheritance
– Prasugatus’ will was ignored
– Nobles treated badly
– Boudica flogged, daughters raped
• Roman financiers call in loans