The Warrior Queen Who Took On Rome d

The Warrior Queen Who Took On Rome d

though Celtic law stated that buddika was the ruler of the land of ASI when her husband died the Romans couldn’t care less they had her and her daughters viciously assaulted before taking everything from her her title her land and her wealth but the Romans seriously underestimated this formidable Warrior Queen and they would come to Ru the day that they crossed her when the Roman Empire took her lands and harmed her daughters The Fearless Queen budika was not about to let them get away with it the Celtic Warrior led a historic upspring against the Romans in 60 AD causing catastrophic damage to multiple towns and even burning London to the ground however her reign of Fury didn’t last long by 61 ad the iron AG’s Ultimate Fighter met a perilous end buddika is an ancient Celtic name which is derived from the word bow meaning Victory and even though she’s one of the

most legendary women in history we don’t know too much about budda’s early days Scholars think she was born around 30 ad in what is now Colchester here’s what we know for sure though young budo was Fancy from day one she either belonged to a prominent family or had Royal Blood and soon she’d level up even more Celtic societies were actually cool with women holding power ladies could rule participate in politics make art choose who they married and even get divorced if a foolish husband was dumb enough to harm his bride by law she could poison the jerk or even cut his head off another thing that helped budaa dominate her foes her ferocious looks she was a statuesque tall woman with a piercing gaze and a deep commanding voice of all budda’s physical traits one is particularly Unforgettable her incredible hair with her long thick vibrant red hair budaa looked like a

toughened up version of Marita from Brave some sources even say the budda’s fiery locks went all the way down to her royal waste in other words she was a total catch and soon enough all the eligible gentlemen Came Calling with her high class background and her smoking hot looks budika was always going to make a good match when she was 18 years old budika married the king of the Asen tribe the handsome and Powerful proetus the royal couple soon welcomed two daughters but sadly their Happy Days wouldn’t last La around 43 ad the Roman Emperor Claudius started to conquer Britain with an iron fist the II people who until this point had been left alone quickly saw the writing on the wall they knew it would only be a matter of time before the Romans invaded their lands buddika and her husband had to figure out how to handle their threat and fast at first buddika and the King decided to play nice with the Romans they struck a

deal if the Romans let them continue to live the way they like the II wouldn’t make trouble for Britain’s new invaders for a time this agreement worked just fine but after just a few years everything fell apart in a spectacular fashion Emperor Nero has a reputation for being a real tool and his role in buddika story doesn’t exactly make people see him any differently when calm Emperor Claudius kicked the bucket and Nero took over the Roman selt relations things got real messy real fast under Nero’s rule the Romans went from awkward but mostly harmless Invaders to actively aggressive enemies it didn’t take long for the II to reach their Breaking Point under Nero’s rule a control freak of a Roman Governor named ostoria scapula Rose to power in 47 ad he got the bright idea to forbid the ASI from carrying weapons unless they were hunting or traveling understandably the II weren’t

on board with being vulnerable while they were literally surrounded by foreign enemies that same year they lashed out with a violent Rebellion the ASI Revolt saw bu’s people rise up and fight against their oppressors the Romans it sounds thrilling and for a brief time I’m sure it was but soon enough the Romans shut down the whole thing in some versions of buddika story even after defeating the eeni the Romans had even more humiliation in store for the royal couple According to some sources this is the moment when budda’s husband became a client King evidently they didn’t like that his people had tried to revolt so they punished the ien king with a huge demotion while he had some Independence as king Rome fully expected to take over completely when pratus passed little did they know that day was just around the corner in 60 AD King pratus breathed his last and man oh

man with him gone all hell broke loose you see when the king passed he and buddika had two daughters but no Sons the selts wouldn’t have minded but the Romans they had a big problem with powerful women desperate the king attempted to outsmart the Romans with a finicky claw in his will let’s see how that works out shall we buddas hubby attempted to play politics and win protection for his family he cleverly willed half of his wealth to his daughters and in a pristine example of historical sucking up gave the other half to emperor Nero unfortunately this backfired in a major way the Romans decided they didn’t want half of the king’s money they wanted it all as buddika and her daughters grieved the Romans used the II king’s demise as an excuse to take over the tribal lands and show the II who is boss according to One Source the Romans chilling instructions were to bring the territory to its knees

the Romans immediately began their brutal spree kicking off the shebang by running through budika home and looting all her valuable items and that was just the beginning the Romans continued to run wild through the ieni lands they targeted the trib’s most prominent noblemen publicly declaring that they no longer held any power as for the less fortunate One Source says the Romans forced them into slavery but they saved their worst punishments for budika and her daughters though Celtic law stated that buddika would rule the ieni when her husband passed the Romans couldn’t care or less after helping themselves to her most prized possessions the Romans ended their tour by shoving the queen out of her home ripping off her clothing tying her to a pole and viciously whipping her in front of her subjects budika suffered an unimaginable painful fate after all the Romans were known for their next level punishments they added

stones to the ends of their whips so that the victim would be hurt even more oh and unfortunately for bua that’s not all the Romans didn’t believe in the less is more school of thought while other ancient societies would call it a day after 40 Lashes the Romans were happy to up that number to 100 as a sign of their brutality Romans often whipped their victims right before ending their life that’s how intense this public punishment would have been and the Romans weren’t even done Buddha’s public humiliation went Way Beyond The Pale you see to the I people buddika wasn’t just just a queen according to One Source her people also thought of her as a high priestess or even the living incarnation of the Goddess andresa because of this the Romans actions weren’t just cruel they were sacrilege even after budda’s whipping the Romans weren’t done with the royal family in their absolute worst act the

men took budda’s daughters and violated them one source estimates that the two young girls whose names are unknown to this day were just 8 and 10 years old at the time of the Romans merciless attacks despite their highest treatment Bud’s daughters could have had it a lot worse back in Rome if a nobleman’s daughter stepped out of line they could be thrown off a cliff among other things the way the Romans treated budika was completely shutter inducing but it hurt budika more than it would have harmed someone else after all Queen budika and her deceased husband had for the most part played by the Romans as rules to avoid them they were allies not enemies which must have made the Romans coldblooded betrayal even worse so why did the Romans go all scorched Earth on the relationship with buddika and the aseni let’s call a spade a spade it was in part because of good old sexism the selts were down with the

idea of a lady in power while the Romans were not the Romans also played dirty during budda’s husband’s Reign the Romans gave the some free money in the form of a grant but then a procurator conveniently decided that actually the grant was more of alone they use this handy rewriting of history as an excuse to steal from the iceni Nobles the Romans had another far more relatable reason it was simple location location location the Roman Empire bordered the West with water surrounding the north and east and everything else covered in thick forest to the Roman Joy this made Invasion nearly impossible there was just one problem with this plan the Romans didn’t have to worry about Invaders just like in a horror movie The call was coming from inside the house budika began plotting her renge budika didn’t waste any time planning a revolution it just so happened that the

I weren’t the only tribe who had beef with the Romans buddika could rile up a crowd like no one else by the time she was done traveling around the neighboring tribes The Fearless had managed to raise an astonishing 100,000 men to join the fight with their allies secured there was just one thing left to do kick some Roman butt before leading our forces into battle budika reportedly gave a rousing speech worthy of Braveheart she assembled her Fighters and declared I’m not fighting for my kingdom and wealth I’m fighting as an ordinary person for my lost Freedom consider how many of you are fighting and why then you will win this battle or perish she finished off her speech with this incredible Line This is what I a woman planed to do let the men live in slavery if they will tell them budika and so with budda’s own version of The Avengers assembled she set her sights on

the ultimate Target the settlement of Camelot this was no ordinary city camalam was the capital of Roman Britain by attacking camalam buddika was sending a message she was coming for the Romans and she was not going to back down when buddika and her Squad arrived they knew exactly what to destroy first they immediately headed to the Temple of Claudius an expensive building that honored Emperor claudius’s domination of British Kings as a sign of how much they hated the Romans buddika ordered her men to burn the entire building down budaa wasn’t content with just destroying a building when she found a bronze statue of Aus she knew that mere destruction wouldn’t do instead of Smashing the statue into Smither budaa used it to send a chilling message she ordered her men to cut the head off the statue message received this lady is Out For Blood bua triumphed at codam partially

because she was angry as heck but also because the Romans messed up they didn’t defend the city adequately and buddika certainly took advantage of their failure within just 2 days Budd buica burned the city down and slaughtered thousands of Romans if they didn’t perish in the fry they burned alive to this day budda’s attack goes down by an appropriately terrifying name it’s called The Massacre of the ninth Legion no one’s saying buddika wasn’t right to be angry at the Romans but at the same time we have to admit that she kind of went overboard buddika didn’t differentiate between good Romans and bad Romans she just destroyed whoever was in her way including lots and lots of innocent bystanders and that’s not all according to ancient sources who wrote about budda’s raids our girl went really hard on the whole Vengeance thing her preferred execution method involved detaching her enemy’s heads from their

bodies budika would then hold up the bloody head and declare that it was a sacrifice to her favorite goddess andrasta budda’s raid was so extreme that the rivers were and I quote purpled with blood after her Victory buddika continued her destructive spree she traveled to the city of londinium unsurprisingly what is now modern day London and took her blood lust to a whole another level an ancient account says that budika hung up the noble woman like animals when she was done with this crude scene she supposedly skewered them like meat on a stick fire and gross boob related executions weren’t the only ways the buddika tried to triumph over the Romans one of bu’s strategies was to take what she thought were abandoned Roman food stores and use them for her own men however for once this plan did not go well the Roman general suetonius anticipated Bud’s move and burned down

his own storehouses just so that Bud’s Army would starve despite this minor setback bua was Unstoppable after conquering londinium budika traveled to verium and continued her fiery road trip budda’s troops triumphed yet again but this Victory had a dark side altogether buddika and her forces ended the lives of about 70 to 80,000 Romans and these weren’t just soldiers this number included a staggering amount of innocent civilians after destroying three of the romans’ most prized settlements budika and her forces felt Unstoppable in 61 ad the warrior Queen prepared for one final decisive confrontation if she won this battle she would finally defeat the Romans and bring Britain back under Celtic control in other words this was the big one so it’s a shame that after all budda’s Blood Sweat and Tears it devolved into a horrific disaster to

this day historians aren’t completely sure about where budda’s final standoff against the Romans took place the event is called the Battle of Watling Street though many believe her final stand occurred a battle Bridge Road in Kings Cross London according to the ancient historian tacitus when budika rallied her men at Watling Street she did so with even more Panache than ever as budaa reveal their scars she and her daughter circled the field in their Chariot they triumphantly declared on this spot we must either conquer or die with Glory there was no alternative budika was right but not in the way she wanted Celtic warriors were tall and muscular standing at least a head above their Roman enemies this alone would have made them look pretty imposing but they also loved Grand standing the selts would often paint themselves with blue dye to look even scarier as we’ll see the showboating didn’t stop the Romans but you’ve got to give the selts

points for style if people were taking bets on buddika versus the Romans most people probably would have put their money on budaa after all she had as many as 230,000 men fighting for her the Romans on the other hand had just 10,000 with these odds Watling Street should have been a slam dunk however budda’s enemies had learned from her past victories and now they had a clever plan to take her down the Roman leader pinus was no fool he specifically chose to fight at wling street because of its finicky layout he arrived first set up his men in a location that was nearly impossible to attack with dense forest surrounding the Romans budo would have no choice but to charge directly at her enemies she would have no cover and no opportunity to sneak up on her foes this had disastrous consequences budda’s fighting style wasn’t very strategic she basically showed up burn stuff down and overwhelmed cities with a sheer number

of her men but this battle was different as buddika charged towards the Romans they strategically threw sharp javelins at the SS soon enough budika became desperate to retreat but getting out wasn’t going to be easy after so many victories budaa made the difficult decision to retreat only to realize that she’d confined herself inside a death trap you see budika was so sure that she would win against the Romans that she invited her Fighters as families to come watch the standoff with relatives lining the outskirts of the field budda and her men were trapped inside in a tragic twist the soldiers his own fam spelled their Doom they traveled to Watling Street in bulky wagons that now stopped the forces from being able to leave the blood soaked field with the selts trapped the Romans took full advantage they absolutely slaughtered budda’s

forces felling approximately 880,000 of her people the Romans defeated buddika for a few key reasons first they chose the location and immediately gained the upper hand second they had more powerful weapons third and most importantly their men received intensive training they were quite literally raised to destroy destroy enemies like budaa but even knowing all this the final stats still hurt budaa lost 880,000 people the Romans just 400 what makes budda’s eventual defeat even more painful is just how frustratingly close she was to Victory if she had won at wling street she would have changed the course of British history the Romans would have gone back to Italy leaving Britain to the Cs in losing this one battle buddika also lost so much more according to tacitus budika realized that she had no chance of winning the fight as the Romans closed in on her the warrior

woman decided to take control of her fate instead of letting the Romans capture her budaa poisoned herself on the battlefield it was a brutal way to go but the Romans play was so bloodthirsty that it made poison look like Child’s Play If the Romans treated buddika the way they treated some of their other captives then honestly she was right for going with self conflicted poison if the Romans captured an enemy they would March them through the streets then publicly execute them even after that though they wouldn’t be done they plann to display the bodies for all to see if you believe the rumors Queen budda’s remains could be buried between platforms 9 and 10 at King’s cross Station in London or she might be underneath the McDonald’s and Kings Norton Birmingham no trace of her has ever been found but archaeologists continue to to look for the warrior Queen to this day one reason for her unending fascination with budika is her

status as a first class hbic but another is because budda’s story didn’t end with her demise far from it when buddika launched a rebellion the Romans were basically caught with their pants down but nobody can say they didn’t learn anything about it they swore that they never allow anything like budda’s Rebellion to happen again that is going to bring bring us to the end of the video on budaa if you enjoyed the video leave a like rating subscribe for more comment below and fate will be back with a brand new video on a historical figure very soon