Where is Queen Boudica buried?
Almost 2,000 years ago, the queen of a Celtic tribe in Great Britain led a bloody revolt against the Romans. QueenA sovereign of the Iceni tribe of Celtic The British in the first century AD, challenged the Roman occupants and were then celebrated as a British heroine.
But where was it ranged (also spelled Boudicca, Boadicea or Boudecia) been buried? Over the years, several places would have been its burial place, especially under a platform in one of the busiest stations in London.
Boudica “was very, very pro-British and very a fighter of freedom”, ” Miranda Aldhouse-GreenProfessor Emeritus of Archeology at the University of Cardiff in the United Kingdom and author of “Britannia“(Routledge, 2021), told Live Science.
His conflict with the Romans Originally from around AD 60, after having brutally denied the joint decision of the Iceni to his daughters and Bredicle decided to release the whole island from Roman domination.
“She decided that she was going to bring together an army and push the Romans out of Great Britain, which she almost did,” said Aldhouse-Green.
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Crop shock
Boudica was the wife of the sovereign of Iceni Prasutagus, a rich king of the Romans, who ruled land on the east coast of Great Britain until his death in around 60 AD. According to the historical archives, his will left a partial governance of the Iceni tribe to his two daughters, whose names are not recorded. The rule of the rest of its territories was to go to the Romans, who had managed to invade Great Britain in around 43 AD.
But under Roman law, women were prohibited from inheriting any type of rule, although it is not clear if Boudica or his daughters were Roman citizens, Caitlin GillespieA classic historian at Brandeis University in Massachusetts and the author of “Bredicic: Warrior woman of Roman Britain“(Oxford University Press, 2018), said Live Science.
This culture shock, and perhaps raw politics, led the Romans to deny the assertion that the girls of Boudica could govern any part of the lands of Iceni. And they were brutal in their denial. “There was a kind of mud with the Romans, who treated very badly,” said Aldhouse-Green. “They set out, confiscated all the active ingredients, whipped gained and raped his two daughters.”
After that, “Boudica decided that it was,” said Aldhouse-Green, and she established a rebellious army with her own people and her British other tribes who had also been ill-treated by the Romans.
Credican revolt
The brongue revolt lasted several months and caused the destruction of several important Roman colonies in Great Britain, including their capital, Camulodunum (Colchester in Essex) and the city of Londinium (now London). But he finally failed, and the rebel forces of Boudica were defeated in AD 61 at the battle of Watling Street, a subsequent name for the old road which led to northwest Londinium.
Boudica herself died in the battle or committed suicide when it was clear that she had lost. Despite her defeat, she was then cracked as a national heroine, in particular under the reign of Queen Victoria, and she is often confused with Britannia, the queen of the mythical warriors of the country.
The idea that Boudica was buried under what is now a platform at the Cross King station in London seems to come from the 19th century. The station was built in an area called Battle Bridge, and according to legend, Bredica had been defeated. But historians now think that the name “Battle Bridge” was a corruption of “Broadford Bridge” and that he had nothing to do with Boudica. The idea has gained in force with the discovery of the Roman era remains on the site when the station was built in the 1850s, but nothing suggests that Bredica was buried there.
The rumors at the burial location of Boudica abounded in the 19th century, partly because of its symbolic association with the British Queen Victoria. Some have hypothesized that it had been buried under the hill of the Parliament on the south-eastern side of Hampstead Heath, which is looming in the north of the start of London near the southern end of rue Watling. (Historians now think, however, that the battle occurred hundreds of kilometers north along the same road, perhaps in Warwickshire.)
Other antique dealers and writers, eager to link to important benchmarks, proposed that it was buried in Stone stone (Already thousands of years at the era of Credica), while others have suggested that it could have been buried in one of the many iron age tombs in the south of Great Britain, in particular in what had been the territories of Iceni to the east.
But Aldhouse-Green warned that the grave of Boudica, wherever it is, will probably never be found.
“The Romans decided when she died that they would prevent any type of memorial, because they were afraid that it was a rallying point for rebellion,” she said. “So they were absolutely certain that there was nothing to show where she was buried.”
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