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The cause of Severus' invasion of Caledonia (modern day Scotland) was a massive increase in raids and attacks on Roman Britain.This was possible because in 195 Clodius Albinus, the Roman Governor of Britain, had led most of the British legions into Gaul during his revolt against Severus.
Septimius Severus, now in his forties, childless and eager to remarry, began enquiring into the horoscopes of prospective brides. The Historia Augusta relates that he heard of a woman in Syria of whom it had been foretold that she would marry a king, and so Severus sought her as his wife. [24] This woman was an Emesene Syrian named Julia Domna.
Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical History of the Kings of Britain makes Caracalla a king of Britain, referring to him by his actual name "Bassianus", rather than by the nickname Caracalla. In the story, after Severus' death the Romans wanted to make Geta king of Britain, but the Britons preferred Bassianus because he had a British mother.
Roman invasion of Caledonia 208–210: Septimius Severus invaded modern Scotland. 209: Septimius Severus named his youngest natural son Publius Septimius Geta co-ruler with himself and Caracalla. 211: 4 February: Septimius Severus died. Roman invasion of Caledonia 208–210: Caracalla ended the campaign. 26 December
The Libyan emperor Septimius Severus, the founder of the Severan dynasty. Lucius Septimius Severus was born in Leptis Magna, then in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis and now in Libya, into a Libyan-punic family of equestrian rank. [4] He rose through military service to consular rank under the later emperors of the Antonine dynasty.
Their father, emperor Severus, wanted “them to rule together,” says Bartsch, which they did — until, two years later, Caracalla has Geta “killed so that he doesn't have to share the rule.”
According to German linguist Stefan Zimmer, Caledonia is derived from the tribal name Caledones (a Latinization of a Brittonic nominative plural n-stem Calēdones or Calīdones, from earlier *Kalē=Black River=don/Danue Goddess[i]oi), which he etymologises as perhaps 'possessing hard feet' ("alluding to standfastness or endurance"), from the Proto-Celtic roots *kal-'hard' and *pēd-'foot', [3 ...
Roman invasion of Caledonia (208-211) - Roman forces led by Septimus Severus invade Caledonia because massive increase in raids and attacks on Roman Britain, but Romans are forced to withdraw to Hadrian's Wall after the emperor became ill and died at Eboracum on 4 February 211, suffering heavy casualties. Romans never campaigned deep into ...