User:Aes34/Segimundus

Segimundus (Sigmund?): the latinised name of a noble of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci active to the North of the Rhine near Cologne in the early first century BC. His father was Segestes, a pro-Roman chieftain who had received Roman citizenship prior to AD 9 and who attempted to warn the Roman general Varus in advance of the German uprising of that year, in which Varus and his three legions perished.

Unlike his father, Segimundus took an anti-Roman position in that year. According to Tacitus, he had been given a ceremonial priesthood in the imperial cult at at Cologne, and took the opportunity to tear off the insignia in public.

In AD 14-15 the Romans undertook reprisal raids across the Rhine under the leadership of Germanicus. In early AD 15 Segestes requested help from the Romans against hostile tribespeople. He sent Segimundus with the embassy in the hope that he could be rehabilitated. Segestes was extracted with his household. He was promised the lives of his kinsfolk, but Segimundus nonetheless appeared in Germanicus' triumphal procession in AD 17.

Other References 1. Tacitus Annals I 57, 58 2. Strabo VII 291