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Thusnelda

Thusnelda (c. 10 BC - 17 AD in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
?) was the daughter of the Cheruscan

Cherusci

The Cherusci were a Germanic tribe that inhabited parts of the northern Rhine valley and the plains and forests of northwestern Germany, in the area between present-day Osnabr?ck and Hanover), during the 1st century BC and 1st century....
prince Segestes

Segestes

Segestes was a noble of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci involved in the events surrounding the Roman attempts to conquer northern Germany during the reign of Roman Emperor Augustus....
. Her father had intended her for someone else, but Arminius

Arminius

Arminius, also known as Armin or Hermann was a chieftain of the Cherusci who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest....
, who subsequently led a coalition of Germanic tribes to victory over Publius Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus was a Ancient Rome politician and general under emperor Augustus, mainly remembered for having lost three Roman legions and his own life when attacked by Germanic tribes leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest....
and his legions in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D., eloped with her and married her instead.

The war between the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
and the northern German tribes continued, and in May 15 A.D.

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Carl Theodor Von Piloty Thusnelda Im Triumphzug Des Germanicus

Thusnelda (c. 10 BC - 17 AD in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
?) was the daughter of the Cheruscan

Cherusci

Segestes

Arminius

Publius Quinctilius Varus

Roman Empire

Germanicus

Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus . Born in Lugdunum, Gaul , was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. At birth he was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle and received the agnomen Germanicus, by which he is principally known, in 9 BC, when...
, the nephew of Emperor Tiberius, who commanded the invasion of Germany. She was pregnant and staying with her father, who was a Roman client and bitterly opposed to Arminius, and it was her father who delivered her to Germanicus, after the latter saved him by driving off Arminius forces, who had besieged him. Her husband much grieved over her loss and did not marry again. He used the fact of her capture to drum up support among the German tribes, with the result that he had enough forces to deliver two crushing defeats to the Roman army in August and September of that year.

During her captivity, Thusnelda gave birth to her and Arminius' only child, Thumelicus

Thumelicus

Thumelicus was the son of the German tribe leader Arminius and of Thusnelda, daughter of the pro-Roman tribal leader Segestes.In May, 15 AD, Arminius besieged Segestes at his stronghold, where Thusnelda, then pregnant, was staying....
. On May 26, 17

Year 17 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar....
A.D., Thusnelda and her son were displayed as prized trophies in Germanicus' triumph

Roman triumph

A Roman triumph was a civil religion and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publically celebrate the achievements of an army commander who had won great military successes, originally and traditionally, who had successfully completed a war....
ant parade in Rome — with her father watching from the stands. The next year, just prior to the Battle of the Weser River

Battle of the Weser River

The Battle of the Weser River, sometimes known as a first Battle of Minden, was fought in 16 A.D. between Roman legions commanded by Emperor Tiberius' heir and adopted son Julius Caesar Germanicus, and an alliance of Germanic tribes commanded by Arminius....
, Arminius engaged in a famous disputation with his brother Flavus, who was still serving in the Roman army. Flavus

Flavus

Flavus means yellow and has given the name to many, more or less yellow, objects:...
informed Arminius that Thusnelda was being well-treated — as, he claimed, was typical of Rome, which was a firm but fair ruler.

Thumelicus was trained at the gladiator

Gladiator

A Gladiator was a slave, criminal or professional fighter in ancient Rome. Gladiators fought other gladiators, wild animals and condemned criminals, sometimes to the death, for the entertainment of Spectator sport in cities and towns of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, from the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE....
school in Ravenna

Ravenna

Ravenna is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The city is inland, but is connected to the Adriatic Sea by a canal. Ravenna once served as the seat of the Western Roman Empire and later the Ostrogoths and the Exarchate of Ravenna....
and is believed to have died in a gladiator show at a fairly young age. Tacitus

Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman Senate and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories —examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors....
tells us that he will report on Thumelicus' fate "at the proper time" — i.e., when he discusses the year in question in his chronicle. The main gap in his text is for 30 and 31 AD — so it could be that Thumelicus died then, aged 15 or 16.