Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus
Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus ( according to recent considerations might be more Tiberius Claudius Togidubnus ) was King and legatus Augusti, ie a vassal king in the Roman province of Britannia in the second half of the 1st century AD, the Celtic on the Regni (also regini or Regnentes called ) prevailed. These had been in pre-Roman times under the rule of the Atrebates. Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus followed as king probably some Verica.
Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus was probably born as a member of the local ruling class. When England was conquered by the Romans in AD 43 years, he has apparently chosen to govern his people as king. It is conceivable that he was sent as a child to be educated in Rome and was sent back to the province in adulthood, proceeding to take up the rule, as that had been the case with the Cheruscan Arminius. But no evidence can be provided.
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As homage and also out of respect for the Roman emperor he took the name Tiberius Claudius. Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus is attested only in two written sources: when Publius Cornelius Tacitus, and an inscription that was found in Chichester.
Tacitus mentions in his biography of his father Gnaeus Julius Agricola, that the British royal Cogidubnus - usually referred to in the transcripts Cogidumnus - have received certain tribal areas to reign. The King had early adopted the Roman customs, and had always been loyal to Tacitus ' times:
" Quaedam civitates Cogidumno regi donatae (is nostram usque ad memoriam fidissimus mansit ) vetere ac iam pridem recepta populi Romani consuetudine, ut haberet instrumenta servitutis et lively. "
1723 was found in Chichester, the former Noviomagus regnorum, an inscription, which mentions the construction of a temple to Neptune and Minerva. Permission to temple gave the king ( rex ) and legatus augusti Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus. The inscription reads:
TEMPLVM [ PR] O · · SALVTE DO [ MVS ] · DIVINA [E ] [ EX] · AVCTORITAT [ E · TI] · · CLAVD [ CO] GIDVBNI · R [ EC · MA ] JNI · BRIT · [ COLE ] GIVM FABROR · · ET [· Q] VI · IN · E [O ] [ SVNT ] · D · S · D · · donante APEAM
For German about: The College of craftsmen and its members give this temple of Neptune and Minerva from their own money for the protection of the Holy House, of the authority of Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, the great king of the Britons [ ... ], son of Pudentinus, he donated the land.
The assumption Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus would reside directly in Chichester, is controversial. In the near Chichester, in the village of Fishbourne, now a big palatial building was excavated, which is assigned to this king.
After the death of Cogidubnus his territory has certainly been fully integrated into the Roman Empire, as no successor has been determined to be King.