Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus
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Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus (or Togidubnus) was a 1st century king of the Regnenses in early Roman Britain.
In Tacitus's Agricola, published ca. 98 AD, where his name appears as both "Cogidumnus" and "Togidumnus" in different manuscripts, he is said to have governed several civitates (states or tribal territories) as a client ruler after the Roman conquest, and to have been loyal "down to our own times" (at least into the 70s AD). He is also known from an inscription on an altar dedicated to Neptune and Minerva, found in Chichester and datable to the late 1st century, after the death of Vespasian (79 AD). There the beginning of his British name, given in the genitive case as "..GIDUBNI", is missing. He is usually referred to as "Cogidubnus" to avoid confusion with his near-contemporary Togodumnus of the Catuvellauni. The inscription adds "Tiberius Claudius" to his name, indicating that he was given Roman citizenship by the emperor Claudius, or possibly by Nero, and gives him the titles "Rex" (king) and "Legatus Augusti" (imperial governor or commander).
Chichester and the nearby Roman villa at Fishbourne, almost certainly Cogidubnus's palace, were part of the territory of the Atrebates before the conquest. Cogidubnus may therefore have been an heir of Verica, the Atrebatian king whose overthrow prompted the Roman conquest. After the conquest they were part of the civitas of the Regnenses, which was probably Cogidubnus's kingdom before being incorporated into the Roman province. The public baths, amphitheatre and forum in Silchester were probably built in Cogidubnus's time.