A tribe of ancient Britons inhabiting an area of south-eastern England in present-day Norfolk and Suffolk. Their queen, Boudicca, led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans in AD 60.
Mothers ready to defend their children to the death are a common stereotype, while any notion that women are Stepford soldiers, caring and compliant, was challenged way before Boudicca headed the Iceni.
Another Romanized town attacked by Boudicca and the Iceni was Verulamium.
Boadicea was an earlier British queen, who led the Celtic Iceni in a two-year uprising against the imperial Roman army after her daughters were raped and she herself was flogged by soldiers.
He was the ruler of a British tribe called the Iceni, who had extensive territories in what is today East Anglia.
Boudicca was the queen of the Iceni, a Celtic tribe in Norfolk and Suffolk in eastern Britain.