When Cartimandua divorced her husband Venutius and took his armour-bearer as her consort, Venutius raised the Brigantes in revolt. Roman auxiliaries were sent to rescue the queen — the first Roman military intervention in Brigantian territory. The dynamics of this client kingdom relationship shaped northern Britain for the next generation: when the Romans could no longer prop up Cartimandua in 69 AD, the entire north fell to Venutius.
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