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The Rutuli or Rutulians were members of a legendary Italic
Ancient Italic peoples

Ancient peoples of Italy are all those peoples that lived in Italy before the Ancient Rome. Not all of these various peoples are linguistically or ethnicity closely related....
 tribe. Thought to have been descended from the Umbri
Umbri

The Umbri are an Italic people people of Italy .Most Umbrian cities were settled in the 9th - 4th centuries BC and were located on easily defendable hilltops....
 and the Pelasgians
Pelasgians

The name Pelasgians was used by some Ancient Greece writers to refer to populations that preceded the Greeks in Greece, "a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably autochthonous people in the Greek world." During the Classical Greece enclaves under that name resided in several locations of mainland Greece, Crete and other regi...
, the Rutuli were located in territory whose capital was the ancient town of Ardea, located about 20 miles southeast of Rome.

In Virgil
Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
's Aeneid
Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin Epic poetry written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Rome....
, the Rutuli are led by Turnus
Turnus

In Virgil's Aeneid, Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas. Prior to Aeneas' arrival in Italy, Turnus was the primary potential suitor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, King of the Latin people....
, a young prince to whom Latinus
Latinus

Latinus or Latinos was a figure in both Greek mythology and Roman mythology mythology....
, king of the Latins
Latins

Latins can refer to several groups of people. Its meaning has changed throughout time, and can still refer to different things even today....
, had promised the hand of his daughter Lavinia
Lavinia

In Roman mythology, Lavinia was the daughter of Latinus and Amata.Latinus, the wise king of the Latins, hosted Aeneas' army of exiled Trojan War and let them reorganize their life in Latium....
 in marriage. When the Trojans
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
 arrive in Italy, Latinus decides to give his daughter to Aeneas
Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
 because of instructions he had received from the gods to marry his daughter to a foreigner.






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The Rutuli or Rutulians were members of a legendary Italic
Ancient Italic peoples

Ancient peoples of Italy are all those peoples that lived in Italy before the Ancient Rome. Not all of these various peoples are linguistically or ethnicity closely related....
 tribe. Thought to have been descended from the Umbri
Umbri

The Umbri are an Italic people people of Italy .Most Umbrian cities were settled in the 9th - 4th centuries BC and were located on easily defendable hilltops....
 and the Pelasgians
Pelasgians

The name Pelasgians was used by some Ancient Greece writers to refer to populations that preceded the Greeks in Greece, "a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably autochthonous people in the Greek world." During the Classical Greece enclaves under that name resided in several locations of mainland Greece, Crete and other regi...
, the Rutuli were located in territory whose capital was the ancient town of Ardea, located about 20 miles southeast of Rome.

In Virgil
Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
's Aeneid
Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin Epic poetry written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Rome....
, the Rutuli are led by Turnus
Turnus

In Virgil's Aeneid, Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas. Prior to Aeneas' arrival in Italy, Turnus was the primary potential suitor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, King of the Latin people....
, a young prince to whom Latinus
Latinus

Latinus or Latinos was a figure in both Greek mythology and Roman mythology mythology....
, king of the Latins
Latins

Latins can refer to several groups of people. Its meaning has changed throughout time, and can still refer to different things even today....
, had promised the hand of his daughter Lavinia
Lavinia

In Roman mythology, Lavinia was the daughter of Latinus and Amata.Latinus, the wise king of the Latins, hosted Aeneas' army of exiled Trojan War and let them reorganize their life in Latium....
 in marriage. When the Trojans
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
 arrive in Italy, Latinus decides to give his daughter to Aeneas
Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
 because of instructions he had received from the gods to marry his daughter to a foreigner. Turnus is outraged and leads his people as well as several other Italian tribes against the Trojans in war. Virgil's text ends when Aeneas defeats Turnus in single combat and therefore gains the right to marry Lavinia. In some other accounts of the story of Aeneas, he is later killed in a subsequent battle with them.

During the 6th century BC, Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was the last of the seven legendary kings of Rome, son of Tarquinius Priscus and son-in-law of Servius Tullius, the sixth king....
 besieged and conquered Ardea, and eventually the Rutulians, like the other Italic tribes, were subsumed within the Roman Republic.