Boudica
Sign in to saveBoudica or Boudicca (, from Brythonic * 'victory, win' + * (adjectival suffix), i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as '''''', ) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She is considered a British national heroine and a symbol of the struggle for justice and independence.
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Boudica was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against Roman forces in AD 60 or 61, though the rebellion ultimately failed. She is remembered as a British national heroine and symbol of resistance against conquest and the fight for independence.
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- 0062-00-00
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18 sectionsContents
- Historical sources
- Background
- Events leading to the revolt
- Uprising
- Attacks on Camulodunum, Londinium and Verulamium
- Defeat and death
- Name
- Early literature
- Revival and the modern legend
- 16th and 17th century literature
- Depiction during the 18th and 19th centuries
- 20th century – present
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Boudica or Boudicca (, from Brythonic * 'victory, win' + * (adjectival suffix), i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as '''''', ) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She is considered a British national heroine and a symbol of the struggle for justice and independence.
Boudica's husband Prasutagus, with whom she had two daughters, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome. He left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and to the Roman emperor in his will. When he died, his will was ignored, and the kingdom was annexed and his property taken. According to the Roman historian Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. The historian Cassius Dio wrote that previous imperial donations to influential Britons were confiscated and the Roman financier and philosopher Seneca called in the loans he had forced on the reluctant Britons.