Andecaver

Celtic tribes of the Aremorica , in the middle of the map the Andes (Andecavers)

Andecaver , also Andekaver or Andes , was the name of a Celtic tribe who lived on the lower Loire ( Liger ). In the name of the city of Angers - called Iuliomagus in Roman times - the tribal name is still included today.

During Caesar's Gaul campaigns in the winter of 57/56 BC. A revolt against the Romans started from (today's) Normandy and Brittany. This anti-Roman alliance consisted of the Celtic peoples of the Venetians , Osismians , Curiosolites , Redons , Namneten , Ambiliates , Andecavers (here called Andes), Veneller , Lexovians and Aulerker . After the main power of the Venetians was defeated in a sea battle against the Roman fleet under Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus and a land battle in Normandy was also lost, the uprising collapsed.

Another uprising together with the Turons in AD 21 was suppressed by four legions led by the tribune of the Legio I Germanica , Torquatus Novellius Atticus.

literature

Maximilian Ihm : Andecavi . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2121.
Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. 2nd, corrected and enlarged edition. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .

Individual evidence

^ Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of the Celtic religion and culture. P. 19.
↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Pp. 200-203.
↑ CIL 14, 3602 Memoriae / Torquati Novelli P (ubli) f (ilii) / Attici Xviri stlit (ibus) iud (icandis) / [tr (ibuni)] mil (itum) leg (ionis) I trib (uni) vexillar ( iorum) / [leg (ionum) q] uatt (u) or IV XX XXI q (uaestoris) aed (ilis) / [praet (oris)] ad hast (am) cur (atoris) loc (orum) public (orum) / [leg (ati) a] d cens (us) accip (iendos) et dilect (um) et / [proco (n) s (ulis)] provinciae Narbon (ensis) / [in cui] us honoris fine / [annum ] agens XXXXIIII / [for] o Iulii decessit.
^ Tacitus: Annales. 3, 41ff. see: Emil Ritterling: Legio (V Alaudae).

[1] Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of the Celtic religion and culture. P. 19.

[2] Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Pp. 200-203.

[3] CIL 14, 3602 Memoriae / Torquati Novelli P (ubli) f (ilii) / Attici Xviri stlit (ibus) iud (icandis) / [tr (ibuni)] mil (itum) leg (ionis) I trib (uni) vexillar ( iorum) / [leg (ionum) q] uatt (u) or IV XX XXI q (uaestoris) aed (ilis) / [praet (oris)] ad hast (am) cur (atoris) loc (orum) public (orum) / [leg (ati) a] d cens (us) accip (iendos) et dilect (um) et / [proco (n) s (ulis)] provinciae Narbon (ensis) / [in cui] us honoris fine / [annum ] agens XXXXIIII / [for] o Iulii decessit.

[4] Tacitus: Annales. 3, 41ff. see: Emil Ritterling: Legio (V Alaudae).