General Notes

[De La Pole.FTW]

Source: Blount.
Queen of the Icenians. The Iceni were a British tribe inhabiting territory
comprising the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. She died 60 A.D. PAF won't
accept that death date.


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Boudicca (died 60), queen of the Iceni, a British tribe inhabiting the
territory constituting the present-day counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
On the death of her husband, King Prasutagus, the Romans seized her
territory. The queen was tortured and beaten, her daughters were raped,
and the noblest Iceni were enslaved. Boudicca gathered a large army,
destroyed the Roman colony of Camulodunum (now Colchester), sacked
Londinium and Veralamium (now London and Saint Albans), and, according to
the Roman historian Tacitus, killed some 70,000 Romans. The Roman
governor of Britain, who had been absent in Mona (now Anglesey), advanced
against the queen and destroyed her force. In despair, Boudicca killed
herself by taking poison. She has been the subject of various literary
works including the tragedy Bonduca by John Fletcher, the ode Boadicea by
William Cowper, and the poem Boadicea by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Microsoft
(R) Encarta.


submitted by DEBORAH LYNNE FOX B.1-13-1960