Redones

The Redonen (Latin Redones ) were a Celtic tribe that was located on the Brittany peninsula in western France. They settled in today's Brittany along the mouth of the Vilaine Ille into and probably up to the estuary of the Loire into the Atlantic. Its main town, was Condate, today Rennes, whose name derives from the Latin word Civitas Redonum ( = city of Redonen ).

With their neighboring tribes of Veneti, Namneten, Curiosoliten and Osismier the Redonen were since the Bronze Age one of the leading logs on the Brittany peninsula. From 700 BC, the Redonen iron had discovered as a material for tool manufacture and named as Celtic Iron Age period began in Brittany.

The Redonen are first mentioned in the 1st century BC in writing by the Roman general and author Julius Caesar in De Bello Gallico, his account of his wars in Gaul. Caesar calls them among the civitates maritimae, the seafaring tribes of the region. After the bloody Battle of the Sambre (57 BC) Publius Licinius Crassus, Caesar sent with a legion in the territories of the Veneti, Redonen and other Celtic tribes, who submitted. 52 BC sent the Redonen and their neighboring tribes, a quota that was to attack Caesar during the siege of Alesia. After the conquest by the Roman Empire, the tribal area of Redonen became part of the Roman province of Gaul. It belonged to the designated Armorica northwestern coast of Gaul.

Even before the conquest by Rome had the Redonen Celtic coins, mostly related to gold, for example, Stater with Greek influence the choice of subject.