Cunobeline

Cunobeline or Cunobelin (<a href="/facts/Common_Brittonic/YnFau4up">Common Brittonic</a>: *Cunobelinos, "Dog-Strong"), also known by his name's <a href="/facts/Latinisation_of_names/69CA5FuQ">Latin form</a> Cunobelinus, was a king in <a href="/facts/Ancient_Britain/RH4f407S">pre-Roman Britain</a> from about AD 9 to about AD 40. He is mentioned in passing by the classical historians <a href="/facts/Suetonius/djJaFVvM">Suetonius</a> and <a href="/facts/Dio_Cassius/KJCU0Ubw">Dio Cassius</a>, and many coins bearing his inscription have been found. He controlled a substantial portion of southeastern Britain, including the territories of the <a href="/facts/Catuvellauni/j08qetel">Catuvellauni</a> and the <a href="/facts/Trinovantes/eAlqh2r0">Trinovantes</a>, and he was called "<a href="/facts/King_of_the_Britons/pA69vGnT">King of the Britons</a>" (Britannorum rex) by Suetonius. Cunobeline may have been a <a href="/facts/Client_king/ClQprt0c">client king</a> of Rome, based on the images and legends appearing on his coins. Cunobeline appears in British legend as Cynfelyn (<a href="/facts/Medieval_Welsh_literature/XlAvd3AN">Welsh</a>), Kymbelinus (<a href="/facts/Medieval_Latin/gyLMjaCX">medieval Latin</a>) or Cymbeline, as in <a href="/facts/Cymbeline/wVEWvRhQ">the play</a> by <a href="/facts/William_Shakespeare/ohI96JTv">William Shakespeare</a>.

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