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Whether a Celtic princess Onomaris (Ὀνόμαρις), mentioned in the anonymous Tractatus de Mulieribus Claris in bello ("Account of women distinguished in war"), was real, is uncertain. She is meant to have taken leadership when no men could be found due to a famine and to have led her tribe from the old homeland over the Danube and into ...
Boudica or Boudicca (/ ˈ b uː d ɪ k ə, b oʊ ˈ d ɪ k ə /, from Brythonic *boudi 'victory, win' + *-kā 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug, pronounced [ˈbɨðɨɡ]) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61.
"Queen Scota unfurls the sacred banner", illustration from an 1867 book of Irish history. In medieval Irish and Scottish legend, Scota is the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh and ancestor of the Gaels. [1]
Cartimandua or Cartismandua (reigned c. AD 43 – c. 69) was a 1st-century queen of the Brigantes, a Celtic people living in what is now northern England. She is known through the writings of Roman historian Tacitus. She came to power during the time period that Rome was campaigning against Britain. She was widely influential during her reign.
Caer Ibormeith - princess cursed to spend every second year in the form of a swan; Cermait - son of the Dagda, killed by Lugh; Cían - father of Lugh; able to shapeshift at will; Danand - daughter of Delbáeth; Delbáeth - king of the Tuatha Dé Danann; Ecne - god of wisdom and knowledge; Egobail - foster son of Manannan mac Lir and father of Aine
La Belle Iseult by William Morris (1858). The Irish princess, Iseult of Ireland is the daughter of King Anguish of Ireland and Queen Iseult the Elder. She is a main character in the Tristan poems of Béroul, Thomas of Britain, and Gottfried von Strassburg and in the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner.
By the time of the Treaty of Limerick, almost all Gaelic nobles had lost any semblance of real power in their (former) domains.Today, such historical titles have no special legal status in the Republic of Ireland, unlike in Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom.
In Old Irish her name is Medb; in Middle Irish, Meḋḃ; in Early Modern Irish, Meadhbh or Meaḋḃ; and in modern Irish Méabh(a) or Méibh.This is generally believed to come from the Proto-Celtic *medu-("mead") or *medua ("intoxicating"), and the meaning of her name has thus been interpreted as "mead-woman" or "she who intoxicates". [6]