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Boudicca - The Woman, The Myth, The Legend (And The Historical Truths Hidden In Her Story)

You may have heard about Boudicca before, or at least seen her name somewhere (and likely struggled to pronounce it). Maybe you’ve seen artwork depicting the warrior-queen, her face painted blue and her red hair flying in a phantom wind.

But if you haven’t heard of Boudicca, her story goes like this. In the early part of the first century A.D., Rome was expanding its empire into the area now known as Great Britain. The people already living in this area had mixed opinions about the Roman incursion.

One tribe, the Iceni, had reluctantly agreed to become subjects of Rome in exchange for a nominal level of independence. Their chieftain, Prasutagus, paid his tax to the empire and kept the peace for many years. At the same time, the Roman nobility forced his people to take on loans and go into debt to the Emperor.

When the chieftain died, he left half his property to Rome and half to his wife Boudicca, and daughters. This was the way of his people––women were considered pe

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Boudica

Britain has produced many fierce, noble warriors down the ages who have fought to keep Britain free, but there was one formidable lady in history whose name will never be forgotten – Queen Boudica or Boadicea as she is more commonly called.

At the time of the Roman conquest of southern Britain Queen Boudica ruled the Iceni tribe of East Anglia alongside her husband King Prasutagus.

Boudica was a striking looking woman. – “She was very tall, the glance of her eye most fierce; her voice harsh. A great mass of the reddest hair fell down to her hips. Her appearance was terrifying.” – Definitely a lady to be noticed!

The trouble started when Prasutagus, hoping to curry favour with the Romans, made the Roman Emperor Nero co-heir with his daughters to his considerable kingdom and wealth. He hoped by this ploy, to keep his kingdom and household free from attack.

But no! Unfortunately the Roman Governor of Britain at that time was Suetonius Paulinus who had other ideas on the subject of lands and property. After Prasutagus’s death his la

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Boudica

Queen of the British Iceni tribe (d. 60/61)

For other uses of this word (spelled this way and as Boadicea, Boudicca, Boudicea, etc.), see Boudica (disambiguation).

Boudica or Boudicca (, from Brythonic *boudi 'victory, win' + *-kā 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug, pronounced[ˈbɨðɨɡ]) 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.^[1] The historian Cassius Dio wrote that previous imperial donations t