Brannoviken

The Brannoviken , ( Latin Brannovices , also Aulerci Brannovices ) were a Gallic Celtic tribe in the tribal association of the Aulerker . After Caesar they belonged together with the Aulerkern, Ambarrern and Segusiavern to the clients of the Aedui . Their settlement area was between the Loire and the Seine in the area around Mâcon , after Caesar about north of that of the Ambarrer. The name Brannovices can be translated as "raven fighter". In Scheibelreiter a connection with the Celtic raven symbolism is made. The region of Le Brionnais in the south of Burgundy is said to derive its name from the Brannoviken.

Caesar names them as the easternmost allies of the civitates maritimae , the seafaring tribes of the Aremorica region . 57 BC He sent Publius Licinius Crassus with a legion to the territories of the Venetians , Redons , Brannovics and other Celtic tribes, who then submitted.

In the relief army for the troops of Vercingetorix (52 BC) enclosed in Alesia , the Haedu and their client groups, including the Brannoviken, provided a force of 35,000 men.

literature

• Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-7001-2609-6 .
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
• Georg Scheibelreiter : Animal names and heraldic creatures. Institute for Austrian Historical Research Vienna. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 978-3-205-05475-7 . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason: Encyclopedia of European Peoples. Infobase Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4381-2918-1 , p. 74 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Max Him : Brannovices . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 814 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Caesar, De bello Gallico VII, 75.
2. ^ Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of the Celtic religion and culture . P. 50.
3. ↑ Max Ihm: Brannovices. In: RE, Vol. III, 1, Col. 814-815.
4. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 880, 1048.
5. ↑ Georg Scheibelreiter: Animal names and coat of arms. Pp. 103-104.
6. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 200.
7. ^ Caesar, De bello Gallico II, 34.
8. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Pp. 234-235.