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Ancestors of Martha Jo (Martha) Cross

Generation No. 69


      483100046810056491016. Arvarigus Of Britain, died Unknown. He married 483100046810056491017. Venissa Julia Of Brittain.

      483100046810056491017. Venissa Julia Of Brittain, died Unknown. She was the daughter of 966200093620112982034. Tiberius Claudius Caesar Of Rome.
     
Child of Arvarigus Of Britain and Venissa Of Brittain is:
  241550023405028245508 i.   Meric Of Britain, died Unknown; married Daughter Of Britain.


      483100046810056491018. Prasutagus Of the Iceni, died Unknown. He married 483100046810056491019. Boadicea (Victoria) Of Britain.

      483100046810056491019. Boadicea (Victoria) Of Britain, died Unknown.

Notes for Prasutagus Of the Iceni:
He was the Druid ruler of the Iceni, inhabitants of the land now comprising the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and in part Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. The capital was Venta, now Winchester. After a war of about forty years, waged by Emperors Claudius, Nero, and Domitian, much of the Icenian land was subject to Roman authority. Prasutagus, thinking to protect his wife, Boadicea , Queen of the Iceni, and their daughters, made the Emperor Nero co-heir with them of his great wealth. The outcome was not as planned, for at his death in A.D. 61 the Roman officers took complete possession of the palace, giving up the princesses to the brutality of the soldiers, and humiliating the Queen by a public scourging. Stung to madness by the wrongs which most nearly affect womanhood, Boadicea led 120,000 men to battle. The sense of injury changed her whole nature and she lived only for revenge. At Leicester she ascended the general's tribunal. In her hand she carried a spear. She addressed the Britons, gathered about as follows:

"I rule not over beasts of burden as are the effeminate nations of the East, nor over tradesmen and traffickers, nor like the man-woman Nero, over slaves; but I rule over Britons, little versed in craftiness and diplomacy, it is true, but born and trained to war; men who in the cause of liberty willingly risk their lives, their lands and property. Queen of such a race, I implore your aid for freedom, for victory! Never let a foreigner bear rule over me or my country-men! Never let slavery reign in this island!"

Attacking their oppressors, they burned London, Colchester and other cities. Some say her army increased to 230,000 men. Over 70,000 on each side were killed. These valiant Icenians were finally defeated by the Romans under Sentonius Paulinus in A.D. 62, and rather than fall into the hands of the invaders, Boadicea took her own life with a poisoned dagger, and was buried in Flintshire. Boadicea, in Latin "Victoria," is described in the records as "cousin" of Caradoc and his sister, Gladys. Boadicea and Prasutagus had at least one daughter, whose name has not been preserved.



     
Child of Prasutagus Of the Iceni and Boadicea Of Britain is:
  241550023405028245509 i.   Daughter Of Britain, died Unknown; married Meric Of Britain.


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