Prasutagus

Prasutagus († 60 AD ) was a British norman Icenerfürst and client king of the Roman Empire.

Prasutagus could have been one of those eleven kings who after the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43 under Emperor Claudius threw themselves. But rather he seems to have been enthroned as a client king after the defeat of the rebellion of the Iceni 48 AD against the Roman governor Publius Ostorius scapula. He could be nominally autonomous kingdom reign and died at a great age to 60 AD His efforts to obtain his descendants the throne by Emperor Nero to certain heirs with him except his two daughters, however, were in vain. His wife, Boudicca led because of the reprisals after his death, a revolt of which cost the lives of about 70,000 Romans.