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<h2 id="similar-names">Similar names</h2>
<p>Variants and adaptations of the name may include:
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Br%C3%A2n_the_Blessed/BIdpgSwl">Brân the Blessed</a>, Welsh <i>Bendigeidfran</i>, a legendary giant leader of the British from the <a href="/facts/Mabinogion/WRTaNn0h">Mabinogion</a>, the probable Welsh antecedent of Geoffrey's Brennius;</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Brinno/cVtPg5oY">Brinno</a>, chief of the <a href="/facts/Cananefates/MDnYGAQc">Cananefates</a> – a tribe from <i><a href="/facts/Germania_Inferior/fSrzvVcL">Germania Inferior</a></i> – whose name was said by Tacitus to be that of "a family of rebels";</li>
<li>"<a href="/facts/Brennius/yD5j5djf">Brennius</a>", listed in Geoffrey of Monmouth's <i>Historia</i> as brother of <a href="/facts/Bellinus/N77VntMX">Bellinus</a>, the latter a legendary king of the Britons; the two are said to have conquered Gaul and then Rome.  Monmouth likely created Brennius as a <a href="/facts/Composite_character/qheDyo0J">composite</a> of the two historical Gauls named Brennus. Geoffrey's Brennius was mentioned by <a href="/facts/Thomas_Howard,_3rd_Duke_of_Norfolk/BdemgjuY">Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk</a>, in 1530, when the duke, while arguing in favor of the claims of the <a href="/facts/House_of_Tudor/vGCmXz5v">House of Tudor</a> claims to imperial status, told Holy Roman Imperial ambassador <a href="/facts/Eustace_Chapuys/2kEEFmhj">Eustace Chapuys</a> that Brennius had founded <a href="/facts/Bristol/nLwyoDTG">Bristol</a> and conquered Rome.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li></ul>
<h2 id="allusions">Allusions</h2>
<ul><li>The name was given to the French battleship <a href="/facts/French_battleship_Brennus/y60R3qSU"><i>Brennus</i></a> (commissioned 1896).</li>
<li>The name in its form "Brennos" is used for one of three fictitious "barbarian" chieftains in the 2008 video game <i><a href="/facts/Civilization_Revolution/ntJBDGQx">Civilization Revolution</a></i>.</li></ul>

<h3>Notes</h3>

<h3>General references</h3>
<ul><li>John T. Koch, "Brân, Brennos: an instance of Early Gallo-Brittonic history and mythology'", <i>Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies</i> 20 (Winter 1990:1-20).</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Edwin Guest: Origines Celticae (1883). <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Thomas Healy, Times Literary Supplement, 24 June 2005, p. 25; reviewing Philip Schwyzer, Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales, Cambridge University Press, 2005. <a href="/wiki/Philip_Schwyzer" target="_blank">/wiki/Philip_Schwyzer</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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