hi all im looking for tribes of Britain/England.?

Question

I just wanna find out what kinds or types of British/English tribes that are famous or not.

I realy want to know only British no bloody scots, irish or welsh or any out the country just the british/english 1's

just english tribes or warriors.

Answer 1

Go to Africa they have tribes there....

Answer 2

In the area known now as England there where approx 50 odd differing tribes and kingdoms dotted around the country, the ones which have come down in folklore history are the two already mentioned because they resisted the Roman Invaders enough to make themselves famous.
When the Romans left the tribes had been almagamated enough into Romano life to have lost some of their identity and the power vacum lost enabled some chieftans to become Kings and the Map of England changed drastically as these Kings took more land and boundaries became settled the most famous of these are the Mercian, Wessex, Northumbian, Sussex, Kent, Cornish and Anglian Kingdoms, as the 600's developed the 'invasion' (non hostile in most cases) of North Germanic people into the Fenland, Kent and Sussex regions became harder to resist and the tribes became weaker as the newcomers interbred and more conflict broke out as tribal customs, thoughts and disputes broke out, finally when the Saxons came in the 700's in force the kingdoms changed again and became larger with the smaller ones being almagamated or conquered. Then once the Norse men started to appear, the Saxon rulers where the only ones to resist these new invaders properly until both sides became exhausted by the conflict and set up the Danelaw line, one part of England (mainlt the Eastern half north of the Thames to the Scottish border) fell under the Norse rule, whilst the other half fell under Anglo Saxon rule, once the line of King Alfred ran out in the late 900's the Danelaw was broken as Canute a Danish King came to power over the English people, the Kings and Princes of the broken Kingdoms all paid homage to him and united their forces under his banner and although the Kingdoms of England remained as boundaries the power laid at the throne of the Cowned King of all England. This then lasted until the Norman Invasion when the older system was once again destroyed and all that is left now are the shires, parishes and counties.
I hope this helps

Answer 3

The tribes [Celtic] of Britain do not include the English.

The most famous British tribe are the Iceni. It was the Queen of the Iceni - Boudica [Boacidea or Bod-dig] who with the aid of other British tribes [possibly the Brigantese] formed the massed ranks of the British Army and destroyed two of the hated Roman Legions.

Boudica's British Army destroyed the Roman garrison town of Colchester burning alive 2,000 Romans inside the great temple there.

On to London where the British killed every living thing in the city and burnt it down into a pile of smoldering ash.

CELTIC TRIBES OF BRITAINFurther information on any of the British Celtic tribes can be had by clicking the required area on the map or choosing the name of the tribe from the table ...
http://www.roman-britain.org/tribes.htm

List of Celtic tribes - Wikipedia,This is a list of Celtic tribes and associated Celtic peoples with their geographical ... 1 Gaul; 2 British Isles; 3 Cisalpine Gaul (Northern Italy) ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Celtic_tribes


The Celtic tribes of Eire and Scotland played a major role in the pre-History and History of Britain. The Irish tribes flooded into Wales to help keep the Anglo Saxons under control and also to keep the Danes out of Wales.

Wales is where you will find the Celts of Britain today. The Welsh are by race the Brythonic Celts - the British.

The Celtic people of Eire, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall and Britanny, are all inter-related as Celts with an ancient and shared history.

Celts - Wikipedia, 4 Celts in Britain and Ireland; 5 Celts in Gaul; 6 Celts in Iberia ..... of Britain and Ireland today may be partially descended from the ancient peoples ...
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt

Celts - Crystalinks Celts in Ireland and Britain. The indigenous populations of Britain and Ireland today are primarily descended from the ancient peoples that have always ...
http://www.crystalinks.com/celts.html

Modern day Celts have a European outlook which is due mainly to their pan-European culture and heritage.

Celtii bew [Welsh phrase = the living Celts].

Answer 4

The Iceni were a large tribe in England when the Romans invaded. It was made up of smaller sub tribes but unified under Boudicca to combat Roman invasion.

England is a part of Britain just as Scotland Wales and northern Ireland are too. You mean to say that you only want to know English tribes.

Answer 5

Tribes? There were indigenous people but not "tribes" in the Native American sense....

Lets see, pre Saxon invasion:

The Scots, Picts, and Cymru which were all part of a larger Celtic people. Also in the same branch were the Bretons.

In legendary status from their myths you had the Fromians, Fir Bologs, and the Tuatha de Dannan who would eventually come to be known as the Sidhe.

After the Saxon invasions you had the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, with a bit of Frankish influence as well and some Roman influence even before all of this.

Answer 6

If you only want to know 100% English then there is a problem as everyone moved around. The English moved to Wales; the Welsh to Ireland; the Irish to Scotland etc. Not to mention England was invaded by Romans, Vikings, Angles, Saxons, Normans etc.

So taking that into account what do you want to know? And what period?

Answer 7

can't recall them all but here are a few

Iceni9Boudicca's mob), Attacotti (scots tribe with a rep for extreme ferocity) , Duobnii, Trinovantes, Cornovii, Cantii, Brigantes (the most powerful of the northern tribes), Coritani, Atrebates, Parisii(also in Gaul), Durotriges, Catuvelauni, picts, & scots,

Answer 8

British is not the same as English, it includes Wales, and if you say Great Britain it includes Scotland too; the tone and language of your question shows your profound ignorance

Answer 9

Iceni is the most famous.
From East Anglia
Queen Boudica (previously pronounced bodicea) was its famous leader who took on the Romans and had countless victories before being defeated.

Answer 10

There are 27 known tribes in Britain. I'll concentrate on the English ones as you asked.

CARVETII - lived in Cumbria probably lived in small farms and did not use coins or build large defensive settlements.

VENICONES - lived in Tayside. They were rare among their contemporaries as they buried their dead in stone lined graves. They are particularly well known for their bronze metalwork.

BRIGANTES - a large tribe whose territory was sliced in half by Hadrian's wall. Their territory covered much of today's Yorkshire, Cleveland, Durham and Lancashire. Their name translates as 'hill dwellers' which is appropriate as the Pennines made up a large portion of their territory. Queen Cartimandua was their leader.

PARISI - East Yorkshire. A small tribe who farmed the chalk hills in the Yorkshire Wolds. Particularly well known for their burials which included chariots.

CORNOVII - modern day Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire. Never used coinage. Their name translates to 'people of the horn'.

CORIELTAUVI - a large tribe in todays Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Northamptonshire. They did use coinage and this tribe created some large settlements especially in Leicestershire.

ICENI - probably the most famous of them all. They occupied Norfolk, part of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. They are thought to have been very wealthy and powerful. Many hoards of gold treasure have been discovered there. They were fiercely anti-Roman. Their leader was King Prasutagus and his wife was of course Queen Boudicca.

CATUVELLAUNI - Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and south Cambridgeshire as well as parts of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Their name translates roughly as 'good in battle'. They used coinage.

DUBUNNI - a large tribe in the Severn Valley and the Cotswolds who used coinage. They lived on farms and in small villages. Their territory held some very fertile land and they were successful farmers.

DUMNONII - occupied the South West Peninsula and some of southern Somerset. No coinage or large settlements. They lived in small farmsteads which they enclosed with walls. They buried their dead.

DUROTRIGES - based in parts of southern Wiltshire and west Dorset. Minted and used their own coinage. They did however occupy hill forts.

ATREBATES - occupied West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. They minted and used coinage. Their name translates as 'settlers'.

CANTIACI - North and East Kent. Very influenced by France and the continent generally who buried their dead by cremation - a very French characteristic back in the day.

TRINOVANTES - based in the region around Colchester and East Sussex and parts of Essex they were the first tribe to be mentioned by Caeser's record of his 54BC invasion. They used coins, cremated their dead.

There are two smaller tribes who very little is known about - the BELGAE and the REGNI.

Hope this helps

Answer 11

Brython and Brythonic are terms which refer to indigenous, pre-Roman, Celtic speaking inhabitants of most of the island of Great Britain, and their cultures and languages, the Brythonic languages. These ethnic groups are also referred to as the British tribes