Brigantes

Brigantes
Approximate territory of the Brigantes
Geography
CapitalIsurium Brigantum (Aldborough)
LocationYorkshire - Lancashire - Northumberland - Durham
RulersCartimandua, Venutius, Vellocatus
The Stanwick Horse Mask, 1st century AD

The Brigantes were Ancient Britons who in pre-Roman times controlled the largest section of what would become Northern England. Their territory, often referred to as Brigantia, was centred in what was later known as Yorkshire. The Greek geographer Ptolemy named the Brigantes as a people in Ireland also, where they could be found around what is now counties Wexford, Kilkenny and Waterford,[1] while another people named Brigantii is mentioned by Strabo as a sub-tribe of the Vindelici in the region of the Alps.[2]

Within Britain, the territory which the Brigantes inhabited was bordered by that of four other peoples: the Carvetii in the northwest, the Parisii to the east and, to the south, the Corieltauvi and the Cornovii. To the north was the territory of the Votadini, which straddled the present day border between England and Scotland.

  1. ^ "Celtic Ireland in the Iron Age". WesleyJohnston.com. 24 October 2007.
  2. ^ Strabo, Geographia Book IV Chap. 6