Pre-Roman Celtic Kingdoms

Tribe of the Belgae

The Belgae were centred on Winchester in modern Hampshire, to the west of the Atrebates. It is likely that they formed part of the kingdom of the Atrebates from at least 20 BC, and may have done so from the latter's probable founding as a kingdom by Commius.

(Additional information taken from The Oxford History of England: Roman Britain, Peter Salway.)

?51 BC - 43

Part of the kingdom of the Atrebates. Conquered by the Romans.

43 - 65?

Cogidubnus

Roman client king of the Atrebates' Regninses & Belgae.

c.65?

Direct rule under the Romans follows. The tribal territory is later organised into the civitates (administrative districts within a Roman province) of the Atrebates, Regni/Regninses and possibly the Belgae.

By the fifth century the Romano-British Belgae had regained some level of independent power in the form of the postulated territory of Caer Gwinntguic.