Which palatial villa, located just over a mile west of Chichester, is believed to have been the residence of king Cogidubnus, a 1st century ally of the Romans?
Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus return to Britain charged with the mission of persuading the tribal kings to not resist the invasion of the Romans. Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus (or Togidubnus, Togidumnus or similar) was a 1st-century king of the Regnenses or Regni tribe in early Roman Britain. The currently accepted preferred name is Togidubnus. Chichester and the nearby Roman villa at Fishbourne, believed by some to have been Togidubnus' palace, were probably part of the territory of the Atrebates tribe before the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43. Togidubnus may therefore have been an heir of Verica, the Atrebatic king whose
Chichester inscription found at the Gallo-Roman town of Mediolanum Santonum (modern Saintes, south-west France), although it is unlikely this refers to the same person. Chichester inscription The Chichester inscription, Chichester stone or Pudens stone (RIB 91) is an inscription on a damaged slab of marble, found in Chichester in 1723 and datable to the late 1st century. As reconstructed by J.E. Bogaers, it reads (reconstructed parts in square brackets): <br> Which translates as: To Neptune and Minerva, for the welfare of the Divine House, by the authority of Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, great king of the Britons, the guild of smiths and those