Cherusci warriors

Arminius (; 18/17 BC–AD 21; Hermann in German) was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, in which three Roman legions under the command of general and governor Publius Quinctilius Varus were destroyed. His victory at Teutoburg Forest precipitated the Roman Empire's permanent strategic withdrawal and the deprovincialization of Germania Magna, and modern historians regard it as one of Imperial Rome's greatest defeats. As it prevented the Romanization of Germanic peoples east of the

thumb|The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus by [[Benjamin West, 1773. Segestes is dressed in yellow.]] Segestes was a nobleman of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci involved in the events surrounding the Roman attempts to conquer northern Germany during the reign of Augustus and then Tiberius.

son of a Cheruscan chief called Segimerus and a younger brother to the German leader Arminius

thumb|Thusnelda at the Roman triumph|Triumph of Germanicus, by [[Karl von Piloty, 1873. The infant Thumelicus is depicted standing next to his mother.]] Thumelicus (born AD 15; died before AD 47, probably in 30 or 31) was the only son of the Cherusci leader Arminius and his wife Thusnelda, daughter of the pro-Roman tribal leader Segestes.

Germanic chieftain of the Cherusci

right|400px|thumb|Relatives of Inguiomer Inguiomer or Ingomar (; fl. 1st century AD) was a leader of the Cherusci. He is chiefly remembered as the uncle of Arminius.