Redone

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Map with details of the tribal area of ​​the Redons

The Redonen (German also Riedonen ; Latin : Redones, Riedones, Rhedones) were a Celtic tribe that lived on the Breton peninsula in western France. They settled in what is now Brittany along the confluence of the Ille in the Vilaine and probably up to the confluence of the Loire in the Atlantic. Their main town was Condate , today's Rennes , whose name is derived from the Latin name Civitas Redonum (= city of the Redons).

With their neighboring tribes the Veneter , Namneten , Curiosoliten and Osismier , the Redons were one of the leading tribes on the Breton peninsula since the Bronze Age . From 700 BC The Redons had also discovered iron as a tool making material and the period known as the Celtic Iron Age began in Brittany.

The Redons are in the 1st century BC. First mentioned in writing by the Roman general and author Julius Caesar in De Bello Gallico , his report on his wars in Gaul . Caesar names them among the civitates maritimae , the seafaring tribes of the region. After the bloody battle of the Sambre (57 BC) , Caesar Publius sent Licinius Crassus with a legion to the territories of the Venetians, Redons and other Celtic tribes who submitted. 52 BC The Redons and their neighboring tribes sent a contingent to attack Caesar during the siege of Alesia . After the conquest of the Roman Empire , the Redone tribal area became part of the Roman province of Gaul. It belonged to the north-western coast of Gaul, designated Aremorica .

Even before the conquest by Rome, the Redons had struck Celtic coins , mainly in gold, for example staters with Greek influence in the choice of motifs.

literature

  • Gaius Iulius Caesar: De bello Gallico. The Gallic War . (translated and edited by Marieluise Deißmann). Stuttgart 1980
  • Condate . In: William Smith: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854
  • Manfred Görgens: DuMont Travel Guide Brittany . Ostfildern 2009
  • Yves Lafond, Eckart Olshausen: Redones . In: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider: Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity. Brill Online 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Görgens: DuMont travel guide Bretagne . Ostfildern 2009, p. 42
  2. ^ Gaius Iulius Caesar: Commentarii de bello Gallico , Book 2, 34 and Book 7, 75; see. Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 4, 107 ( Rhiedones ); Ptolemy 2, 8, 9.
  3. ^ Caesar, Gallic War 2, 34.
  4. ^ Caesar, Gallic War 7, 75.