Boudicca

Boudicca British queen of the Iceni tribe. Boudicca led the British rebellion against the Romans in AD 60/1. Her husband Prasutagus had become a client king of the Romans at the time of the invasion. However, when Prasutagus died in AD 60 the Romans decided to incorporate his kingdom into the province of Britain. The take‐over Seems to have been badly handled and, according to the Roman historian Tacitus, ended up with Boudicca being flogged and her two young daughters raped. The rebellion which she instigated was joined by the Iceni's neighbours, the Trinovantes. They captured and destroyed the new Roman colony at Colchester, repeated their success at London, and then destroyed Verulamium, the capital of their traditional foes the Catuvellauni. The Roman governor Suetonius Paullinus eventually managed to assemble a large enough force to take on the rebels in a pitched battle. The British were defeated and the rebellion collapsed. Boudicca died shortly afterwards, by her own hand.