Brigantes

• the most northern and powerful people in Roman Britain, subdued by Cerialis, Tac. A. 12, 32; id. H. 3, 45; id. Agr. 17; Juv. 14, 196.—Hence, Julius Briganticus, a son of the sister of Civilis, Tac. H. 4, 70; 2, 22; 5, 21.

BRIGANTES (Βρίγαντες).

A people of Britain, the subjects of Cartismandua, reduced by Ostorius, occupants of the parts between the Humber and Tyne. (Tac. Ann. 12.32, Hist. 3.45, Agr. 17; Ptol. 2.3.16.)

Of Ireland, mentioned by Ptolemy (Ptol. 2.2.7) as the most south-eastern Hibernians: their probable locality being the county Kilkenny. [R.G.L]

The most powerful of the British tribes, inhabiting the whole of the north of the island from the Abus (Humber) to the Roman Wall, with the exception of the southeastern corner of Yorkshire, which was inhabited by the Parisii. The Brigantes consequently inhabited the greater part of Yorkshire, and the whole of Lancashire, Durham, Westmoreland, and Cumberland. Their capital was Eboracum, now York. They were conquered by Petilius Cerealis in the reign of Vespasian. There was also a tribe of Brigantes in the south of Ireland, between the rivers Birgus (Barrow) and Dabrona (Blackwater), in the counties of Waterford and Tipperary.