Tiberius Claudius Cogidumnus – King of the Regni – Client of Rome
Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus was a 1st-century king of the Regnenses or Regni tribe in early Roman Britain.
Literary References to Tiberius Claudius Cogidumnus
References in Classical Literature/Art
References by Modern Historians
- (TaCiRB, pp158/159) – Political Geography – Regnenses
- (WWiRBaASE, pp4/5) – Entry in “Who’s Who”
- Cornelius Tacitus – The Life of Julius Agricola
Chapter 14.1
The first consular governor to be placed in command of Britain was Aulus Plautius: soon after came Ostorius Scapula, both distinguished soldiers. The nearest portion of Britain was reduced little by little to the condition of a province: a colony of veterans was also planted. Certain states were handed over to King Cogidumnus ¹ [²] – he has remained continuously loyal down to our own times – according to the old and long-received principle of Roman policy, which employs kings as tools of enslavement.
- Cogidumnus or Cogidubnus, King of the Regnenses in West Sussex, had become a client of Rome. The remarkable inscription at Chichester shows that he took the name Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus and the title legatus Augusti.
- [The phrase highlighted reads in Latin: quaedam civitates Cogidumno regi donatae.]
Roman Inscriptions in Britain #201
Barry Cunliffe (who was the archaeologist who uncovered Fishbourne) has put forward the theory that Fishbourne Roman Palace was Cogidubnus’s royal seat.