Julia of the Iceni - Julia of the Iceni

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I would like to establish the historicity of this person.

Julia does not sound like a name that would be in use in Brythonic speaking pre-Roman Conquest Britannia.

Several web-sites cite her as the daughter of Prasutagus and Boudicca

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Iceni-4
https://fabpedigree.com/s037/f000269.htm
https://gw.geneanet.org/rlobri?lang=en&n=des+iceniens&p=jul...
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L636-MCH/penardun-julia-victo...
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-ratsma/I1411.php

There are others.

I am sceptical.

Are these genuine?

Thanking you in anticipation.

Oh, it gets worse. She’s often referred to,as Julia Victoria. Which, no.

No, there is no evidence at all as to the names of Boudicca’s daughters. The two unnamed daughters are mentioned by Tacitus, so let’s assume they existed, as also Prasutagjs and Boudicca. And that they inherited from their father and were brutally raped by the Romans.

But we do not know their names.

It’s very early really that myth and legend and lots of invented details started showing up in the story. The name Julia doesn’t show up for a few centuries, though.

But I haven’t yet been able to track down exactly where this name came from.

Would be good to label her Fictional but I hate to do that before being able to give the source of the fiction.

Anybody have a clue?

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