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The
Regnenses,
Regni or
Regini were the subjects of a British
Celtic kingdom and later a
civitas of
Roman Britain. Their capital was
Noviomagus Regnorum, known today as
Chichester in modern
West Sussex.
Before the
Roman conquest their land and capital appear to have been part of the territory of the
Atrebates, possibly as part of a confederation of tribes. It has been suggested that, after the first phase of the
conquest, the Romans maintained the Atrebates as a nominally independent
client kingdom, acting as a buffer between the Roman province in the east and the unconquered tribes to the west. The ruler of the kingdom was
Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus:
Tacitus says "certain
civitates were given to King Cogidubnus" and remarks on his loyalty. A first-century inscription found in Chichester supplies his
Latin names, indicating that he was given
Roman citizenship by
Claudius or
Nero. Cogidubnus may have been a relative of
Verica, the Atrebatian king whose overthrow was the excuse for the conquest. After Cogidubnus's death, the kingdom would have been incorporated into the directly-ruled Roman province and divided into several
civitates, including the Atrebates,
Belgae, and Regnenses (interpreted as
Latin "people of the kingdom").
This theory, of course, depends on reconstructing the name of the
civitas as
Regnenses, which is far from certain, as many linguists favour a native
Regni or
Regini. "Even the reading of the genitive plural tribe name in
Ravennas as
Regnentium is a tendentious emendation,"
Kenneth H. Jackson asserted. "To go further and turn all this into
Regnenses, 'The People of the Kingdom', is more than rash ... The tribal name in Ptolemy is
Regnoi,
Rignoi, or
Reginoi ... It is proposed ... that this was British
Regini". A.L. Rivet and C. Smith concur: "This is surely right"
Likewise, the theory that Cogidubnus was created
legatus, a rank only ever given to senators, is based on reconstructing the damaged Chichester inscription to read
Cogidubni regis legati Augusti in Britannia ("king and imperial legate in Britain"). It more probably reads
Cogidubni regis magni Britanniae ("great king of Britain").
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