Posted on 09/04/2022 8:11:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Iceni were an Iron Age tribe, who inhabited the flatlands and marshes of present-day Norfolk, Suffolk, and parts of Cambridgeshire.
They allied with Rome during Claudius’ conquest of Britain in AD 43, however, Roman encroachment after the death of the Iceni King, Prasutagus, led to tribal revolts against Roman occupation.
In AD 60 or 61, when the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning on the island of Mona (modern Anglesey) on the northwest coast of Wales, Boudica led the Iceni, the Trinovantes and other British tribes in revolt which led to the destruction of Londinium (London), Camulodunum (Colchester) and Verulamium (St Albans).
Suetonius regrouped his forces, and despite being heavily outnumbered, he decisively defeated the tribal coalition, resulting in Boudica either committing suicide to avoid capture (according to Tacitus), or dying of illness (according to Cassius Dio).
Following the pacification of the Iceni, the Romans developed the town of Venta Icenorum near present-day Caistor St Edmund as a civitas capital around AD 70, which functioned as a principal economic, cultural and administrative centre for the region in the new Roman province.
Evidence found during excavations by the Caistor Roman Project, working alongside the University of Nottingham and Norvic Archaeology at Caistor St Edmund, England, suggests that the defeated Iceni continued to inhabit the area and even adopted the Roman lifestyle.
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Wishful thinking.
The rest of the three keywords, sorted, duplicates out:
Started taking baths.
Were any of the Iceni druids?
Mark
Possible, but no one knows.
It would be nice if the site of Boudica's bonfire of her vanity were found, as there could be a million or more surviving teeth from the nimrods who followed her into annihilation -- assuming the Romans and/or the locals incinerated the dead after the defeat. Any major pile of bones that survive probably marks the spot of the battle, and would settle the argument about where it took place.
Also, DNA samples could be plentiful, and shed light on how related the participants were, and what kind of genetic heritage survives in modern populations.
I thought I was way off base but this is interesting. Could be, then.
I just finished reading Tacitus’s Annals and now am re-reading Suetonius 12 Caesars. Haven’t read it in a few years and thought it would be interesting to refresh my memory of it after reading Tacitus who really kept my interest. Plan at some point to read Cassius Duo but I wish they’’d discover more of these writer’s stuff.
And just around the subject, did you ever see Britannia? A bit of a mish-mosh of history and wishtory but you know that girl is gonna end up being Boudicca.
Yeah, getting some DNA and knowing where the battle took place would be something.
There is a persistent legend that a Roman officer recognized Boudicca’s younger daughter ( a young teen) who had been captured and sold as a slave. He bought her and made her a present of her freedom. Wisely, the younger woman became his wife. They retired to Rome where when she was a middle aged woman crossed paths with a older retired Gen Suetonius, whose face drained of color as he recognized who he was being introduced to.
Wow! That is an incredible story. I hope that one is true.
Makes you wonder did Suetonius regret what he did otherwise why would he have that sort of reaction?
The Romans. They could be brutal.
Boudicca daughter’s were supposed to be dead. Committed suicide in the wake of the battle so it was like seeing a ghost walking into a Roman reception dressed as respectable Roman matron.
Oh yeah. I get that.
Maybe the family of Boudicca has progeny.
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