this is the only one i ever heard of in non fiction
en.wikipedia.org
Boudica or
Boudicca (
/ˈbuːdɪkə, boʊˈdɪkə/, 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 to influential Britons were confiscated and the Roman financier and philosopher
Seneca called in the loans he had forced on the reluctant Britons.
In 60/61, Boudica led the Iceni and other British tribes in revolt. They destroyed
Camulodunum (modern
Colchester), earlier the capital of the
Trinovantes, but at that time a
colonia for discharged Roman soldiers. Upon hearing of the revolt, the
Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus hurried from the island of
Mona (modern Anglesey) to
Londinium, the 20-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels' next target. Unable to defend the settlement, he evacuated and abandoned it. Boudica's army defeated a detachment of the
Legio IX Hispana, and burnt both Londinium and
Verulamium. In all, an estimated 70,000–80,000 Romans and Britons were killed by Boudica's followers. Suetonius, meanwhile, regrouped his forces, possibly in the
West Midlands, and despite being heavily outnumbered, he decisively defeated the Britons. Boudica died, by suicide or illness, shortly afterwards. The crisis of 60/61 caused
Nero to consider withdrawing all his imperial forces from Britain, but Suetonius's victory over Boudica confirmed Roman control of the province.
she is pretty lolzworthy
