Verica

Verica was a Celtic prince, the n in the first decades BC, the Atrebates in the south of England dominated and perhaps was client of the Romans.

Verica is mainly known through numerous coins, on which, besides his own name the legends commi F or CF appear, probably as a Commi Filius - are the son of Commius supplement. Commius was an important Celtic ruler, who is also known from Roman sources. Also the abbreviation VAR so perhaps the capital of Verica is meant that previously could not be located with certainty, but perhaps stood at Selsey Chichester or appears on some coins. Archaeologists were able to show that people had accepted here even before the conquest of Britain by the Romans, the Mediterranean way of life. His dominion but was increasingly threatened by the Catuvellauni, who managed to conquer more and more parts of the power range of the Vercia. Vericas territory was reduced to the south of England in Sussex. Archaeologists were able to show that people had accepted here even before the conquest of Britain by the Romans, the Mediterranean way of life. Verica fled to Rome, where Dio Cassius (60, 19), under the emperor Claudius the arrival of a certain Berikos recorded, in turn, asked for help, which the Romans was a welcome opportunity to attack Britain in 43 AD and conquer. Verica disappears from the sources. His successor was probably Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus whose magnificent Roman villa has been discovered at Fishbourne in 1960 and exposed by archaeologists. It is quite possible, but not supported by sources that Verica was used after the Roman conquest of Britain there as a client king before Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus took office.