Trinovantes
The Trinovantes (also Trinobanten ) were in the late Iron Age a Celtic tribe South East Britain prior to its conquest by the Romans. They are known by a few scattered remarks in Caesar's De bello Gallico comment, Augustus ' Res gestae divi Augusti and in the Annals of the Roman historian Tacitus. Their settlement area lay to the north of the Thames estuary in the present counties of Essex and Suffolk. Their northern neighbors were the Iceni and their Western the Catuvellauni.
Approximately in the middle of the 1st century BC included the Trinovantes to the most powerful tribes of Britain. Their capital city was at that time probably Braughing (now Hertfordshire). According to some manuscripts of Caesar 's De bello Gallico was her then- King Imanuentius, although his name does not appear in other manuscripts. Cassivellaunus, probably king of the Catuvellauni, rushed Imanuentius, whose son Mandubracius then sought protection from Caesar in Gaul. The Roman general, defeated Cassivellaunus during his second campaign in Britain and sat Mandubracius 54 BC as king of the Trinovantes one that was left in the wake of Cassivellaunus in peace.
From coin finds is as the next king of the Trinovantes Addedomarus known, the BC took over around 20-15 power and moved the capital to Camulodunum (now Colchester ) moved. By 10 BC, probably defeated the king of the Catuvellauni, Tasciovanus, the Trinovantes, as he struck coins in Camulodunum at this time. Maybe on Roman pressure he soon had to pull back and Addedomarus could take his old position again. Approximately 10-5 BC followed by Addedomarus ' son Dubnovellaunus, but soon afterwards the kingdom of the Trinovantes either of Tasciovanus or his son Cunobelinus was finally conquered.
During the period of Roman occupation of Britain after its conquest by Emperor Claudius ( AD 43 ) the Trinovantes are mentioned 60/61 AD as a participant in Boudicca's revolt against the Romans. When her now to the main town Caesaromagus is (today Chelmsford ) called.
Geoffrey of Monmouth used in his Historia Regum Britanniae unhistorical the name of the Trinovantes in the form Trinovantum, as London had originally told. This name was derived according to Monmouth from Troinovantum ( = New Troy), where the author this claim association with the legend that Britain by Brutus and other refugees of the Trojan War had been founded.