Arminius
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Arminius was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, in which three Roman legions unde
Statue of Arminius at the Hermannsdenkmal monument
Relatives of Arminius
Varusschlacht, Otto Albert Koch (1909)
View over the Teutoburg Forest
Thusnelda
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Thusnelda was a Germanic Cheruscan noblewoman who was captured by the Roman general Germanicus during his invasion of Germania. She was the wife of Arminius. Tacitus and Strabo cite her capture as evi
Arminius
…new army. This prevented Arminius from crossing the Rhine and invading Gaul. At some point after the battle, Arminius married a Germanic princess named Thusnelda. Her father was the Cheruscan prince Segestes, who was pro-Roman, but Arminius abducted and then impregnated Thusnelda c. AD 14. This elopement was…
Thusnelda statue in Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.
The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus by Benjamin West, 1773
Hermann and Thusnelda (Tischbein, 1822)
Thusnelda at the Triumph of Germanicus, by Karl von Piloty, 1873