Cunobelinus King of Britain

   Other names for Cunobelinus were Cunobelin King of Britain and Cynfelyn.

  Research Notes:

FamilySearch.org Compact Disc #94 Pin #105893 (submitted by Samuel Taylor "Sam" Geer) has d. AD 17. Gives name & title as Cunobelinus, King of Britain.

From A History of Wales by John Davies, London, 2007, pp. 25-26:

"By about AD 30, Cunobelinus (the Cynfelyn of Welsh tradition) of the tribe of the Catuvellauni had brough the area from Essex to Surrey under his control. His kingdom, with its coinage, its wheel pottery, its livelyt trade, its prosperous agriculture and its suggestion of the beginnings of literacy, was highly develoed. In an arc around Cunobelinus's kingdom lived the Iceni, the Coritani and the Dubonni, tribes which had not been conquered by the Belgae but which had adopted some of their innovations, in particular coinage and wheel pottery. Beyond them dwelt the tribes of Wales -- the Silures, the Demetae, the Ordovices and Deceangli; although elements of the culture of the Belgae were rare among them, they also felt the effects of the new power in south-eastern Britain, as the strengthened fortifications of their hill-forts bear witness.

"Cunobelinus died about AD 40 and his kingdom was inherited by his sons, Caratacus and Togodumnus."

Cunobelinus married.