Imanuentius is named in some manuscripts of

Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in Caesar's civil wa ...

's '' De Bello Gallico'' as a king of the

Trinovantes The Trinovantēs (Common Brittonic: *''Trinowantī'') or Trinobantes were one of the Celtic tribes of Pre-Roman Britain. Their territory was on the north side of the Thames estuary in current Essex, Hertfordshire and Suffolk, and included land ...

, the leading nation of south-eastern

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at that time, who ruled before Caesar's second expedition to the island in 54 BC. Variant spellings include Inianuvetitius, Inianuvetutus and Imannuetitius. In other manuscripts this king's name is not given. Imanuentius was killed by the warlord Cassivellaunus, and his son

Mandubracius Mandubracius or Mandubratius was a king of the Trinovantes of south-eastern Britain in the 1st century BC. History Mandubracius was the son of a Trinovantian king, named Imanuentius in some manuscripts of Julius Caesar's '' De Bello Gallico' ...

fled to the protection of Caesar in

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. Cassivellaunus then led the British defence against the Romans, but the Trinovantes betrayed the location of his fortress to Caesar, who proceeded to besiege him there. As part of the terms of Cassivellaunus's surrender, Mandubracius was installed as king of the Trinovantes, and Cassivellaunus undertook not to make war against him. John Koch suggests that the original form of Imanuentius's name may have been *''Mannuētios''. He also suggests that the Welsh mythological figure Manawydan may derive from an earlier *''Mannuētiagnos'', "son of Mannuetios".

References

, '' De Bello Gallico'' 5.20 *John Koch, "A Welsh Window on the Iron Age: Manawydan, Mandubracios", ''Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies'' 14 (1987), pp. 17–52.

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