Królestwa klientelne w Brytanii w latach 54 p.n.e. – 43 n.e.
Client kingdoms in Britain in the years 54 BC – 43 AD

Summary/Abstract: The existence of political relations between the kingdoms of south-eastern Britain and Rome is confirmed by narrative, numismatic and archaeological sources (and one epigraphic source – "Res gestae divi Augusti"). The nature of these relations, due to the specificity of the source material, is difficult to verify. Therefore, the question posed in the introduction to the paper about the existence of client kingdoms during the discussed period cannot, in the author’s opinion, be answered in a fully convincing way. However, there are firm grounds to believe that such kingdoms existed within south-eastern Britain during the reign of Augustus, perhaps as early as the times of Tincomarus of the Southern Kingdom (which, apart from numismatic and archaeological material, finds support in the message of Strabo and, above all, "Res gestae divi Augusti") and Tasciovanus of the Eastern Kingdom (this conclusion is based primarily on numismatic and archaeological sources). The good relations between Rome and the Southern and Eastern Kingdoms must have lasted until at least the early 40s AD, and, paradoxically, as John Creighton points out, they were not interrupted in principle by the invasion of Claudius, who, after arriving on the island, quickly rallied most of the defeated tribes around the client kingdoms.

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