Segimundus

Iulius Segimundus , also Segimuntus , was a Germanic nobleman and son of the Cheruscan prince Segestes .

His father's tribe was in good contractual relations to the Roman Empire and was therefore in the RanGes ruler cult of Emperor Augustus involved. In this context, Segimundus worked as a high priest at the Ara Ubiorum , an altar in what was then the Oppidum Ubiorum (now Cologne ). When the Cheruscan prince Arminius started an uprising against the Romans in AD 9, Segimundus also switched to the side of the rebels after allegedly symbolically tearing his priestly armband off his head.

Some time after the victory of the Teutons in the Varus Battle , however, Segestes and his son Segimundus faced their tribal brother Arminius, whereupon he besieged them with a force in 15 AD. Thereupon Segestes sent his son as part of a delegation to the Roman general Germanicus , from whom he hoped for support in this inner- Germanic dispute. The general forgave Segimundus his participation in the anti-Roman uprising a few years earlier and sent him with an escort to the "Gallic [ie left] bank of the Rhine" (according to Tacitus). With the help of the Roman troops it was actually possible to liberate the besieged Segestes. In 17 AD Segimundus, his sister Thusnelda (wife of Arminius) and their son Thumelicus were led through Rome on the triumphal procession of Germanicus.

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Tacitus , Annales 1,57,1-3 (on- line ).
Strabo , geography 7,1,4 (= 7,291).

literature

Arthur Stein : Segimundus. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 1, Stuttgart 1921, column 1073.
Volker Losemann : Segimundus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 339 f.
Hermann Reichert , Konrad Vössing : Segestes. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018207-6 , pp. 105-107.

Individual evidence

↑ Segimundus probably received Roman citizenship together with his father and thereby the gentile name of the reigning emperor, Iulius . Cf. Arthur Stein : Segimundus. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 1, Stuttgart 1921, column 1073.
↑ Tacitus , Annales 1,57,2.
↑ Tacitus, Annales 1,57,1-3.
↑ Strabo , Geography 7,1,4.

personal data
SURNAME	Segimundus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Segimuntus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Son of the Cheruscan prince Segestes and priest in Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 15

[1] Segimundus probably received Roman citizenship together with his father and thereby the gentile name of the reigning emperor, Iulius . Cf. Arthur Stein : Segimundus. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 1, Stuttgart 1921, column 1073.

[2] Tacitus , Annales 1,57,2.

[3] Tacitus, Annales 1,57,1-3.

[4] Strabo , Geography 7,1,4.