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Thusnelda was the daughter of the pro-Roman Cheruscan prince Segestes.In 9 AD, Arminius, Thusnelda's future husband, who had been given by his father to the Romans as a child and raised as a Roman military commander serving under Publius Quinctilius Varus, switched sides to the Germans, and led a coalition of Germanic tribes that defeated the legions of Varus at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus is a 1773 history painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It depicts a scene from the Roman Empire 's military campaign in Germania in the early first century , loosely based on the writings of the historian Tacitus .
Thusnelda at the Triumph of Germanicus, by Karl von Piloty, 1873.The infant Thumelicus is depicted standing next to his mother. Thumelicus (born AD 15; died before AD 47, probably in 30 or 31 [citation needed]) was the only son of the Cherusci leader Arminius and his wife Thusnelda, daughter of the pro-Roman tribal leader Segestes.
Germanicus's troops rescued Segestes and took his pregnant daughter, Arminius's wife Thusnelda, into captivity. Again he marched back victorious and at the direction of Tiberius, accepted the title of Imperator. [29] [40] Arminius called his tribe, the Cherusci, and the surrounding tribes to arms.
The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus by Benjamin West, 1773. Segestes is dressed in yellow. Segestes is dressed in yellow. Segestes was a nobleman of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci involved in the events surrounding the Roman attempts to conquer northern Germany during the reign of Augustus and then Tiberius .
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