Boadicea (or Boadicea, Boudicca), wife of Prasutagus, was a queen of the Britto-Roman people of the Icenis present in the region that is today Norfolk in the northeast of the Roman province of Brittany, in the 1st century AD. -C.
In his will and in accordance with imperial law, King Prasutagus bequeathed half of his client-kingdom to the Empire around the year 60. According to Tacitus (Annals, Book 14; Agricola, XIV, XV, XVI) and Dion Cassius (History, LXII), it is following constant humiliations on the part of the Roman administrators that Boudicca takes up arms. The sources explain that it is about the rape of his two daughters and his own flogging - a generalized uprising is also extrapolated from it.
With an army, it razes the colony of Camulodunum, as well as its recent imperial sanctuary, the municipality of Verulamium and the city of Londinium (London). Eventually, the Roman general Suetonius Paulinus finally achieved victory in 61. Boudicca committed suicide with poison.
The revolt of Boudicca arises, still today, as a symbol of resistance of the Breton populations against the Roman invader, it is considered as the Breton (and British) counterpart of Vercingetorix. It also marks the transition between a certain form of independence (although it was already a client kingdom at the time) and full integration into the Empire.
It is also interesting to note that the other Breton client-kingdom still in existence at the time, that of Togidumnus to the south, obviously took no part in the revolt, either on one side or the other.
A statue of her wielding a sword and driving a chariot is erected in London near Westminster Quay.