Geidumner
The Geidumner (Latin Geidumni , French Geidumnes ) or Geidummer or Geidunner , were a small Belgian tribe in ancient times . They lived in the Gallia Belgica as a clientele of the Nervier in the area between the Meuse and the Scheldt in the north-west of today's Belgium . The Atrebaten , Aduatuker , Eburonen and Remer lived next to the Nervier settlement area .
history
Mention the Geidumner, together with the ceutrones , Grudiern , Levacern and Pleumoxiern as clientele tribes of the Nervii because in the winter of 54/53. In the attack on the winter camp of the legion of the legate Quintus Tullius Cicero in the Nervier settlement area.
After the victory of the Eburones , in the winter of 54/53 BC BC, over the one and a half Roman legions of the legates Quintus Titurius Sabinus and Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta near Aduatuca , the Eburonian king Ambiorix had encouraged the Aduatucers and Nervier to revolt.
Gourdinne , municipality of Walcourt , district of Philippeville , province of Namur , Belgium is assumed to be the place of settlement of the Geidumner . Göler says: "Roulez relocates ... .. the Geidunner or as he writes the" les Gordunni "but at the village of Gourdinnes ...".
literature
- Gaius Iulius Caesar : De bello Gallico , Book 5, Paragraph 38/39
- M. Roulez: Mémoire sur les campagnes de César dans la Belgique et particulièrement sur la position du Camp de Q. Ciceron chez les Nerviens, Leuven 1833,
- August Göler : Caesar's Gallic War in the years 58 to 53 BC Chr. , Karlsruhe 1858, p. 159/160
Individual evidence
- ^ C. Julius Caesar: De bello Gallico . 5, 39.
- ^ C. Julius Caesar: De bello Gallico . 5, 38.
- ↑ August Göler : Caesar's Gallic War in the years 58 to 53 BC Chr. , Karlsruhe 1858, p. 159/160, Rn 5