According to Suetonius, Claudius sailed from Boulogne, and it is usually assumed that the main force under Plautius sailed from the same place, but it is possible that Plautius's forces sailed from the mouth of the Rhine, which Strabo names as a point of departure used for crossings to Britain in the early 1st century ; ships commonly sailed along the coast of Belgic Gaul to the territory of the Morini, before taking a relatively short open-sea crossing to Britain.

Caratacus and his brother Togodumnus led the initial defence of the country against Aulus Plautius's four legions, thought to have been around 40, 000 men, primarily using guerrilla tactics.

Little is known of Aulus Plautius's early career.

On the other hand, if the Rhine was the point of departure, and if the Catuvellauni were Plautius's objective, it could be argued that a landing south of the Thames would have been unnecessary and have entailed as much risk as a landing north of the river.

One is Pomponia Graecina, wife of Aulus Plautius, the conqueror of Britain, who as Tacitus relates, was accused of following a " foreign superstition ", generally considered to be Christianity.

* In the 1951 film Quo Vadis, based on the novel, Aulus Plautius ( played by Felix Aylmer ) is ( unhistorically ) a Christian with his wife Pomponia ; he is later crucified and burned to death in the Colosseum near the end of the film.

Aulus seems unaware ( or simply unwilling to know ) that Pomponia, his wife, and Ligia, his adoptive daughter, profess the Christian religion.

She bore him a son of the same name, Titus Pomponius Atticus ( little is known of him ), as well as a daughter, Caecilia Pomponia Attica, who became the first wife of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

Vipsania Agrippina ( 36 BC-20 AD ) was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa from his first wife Pomponia Caecilia Attica, granddaughter of Cicero's friend and knight Titus Pomponius Atticus.

In 68, Cicero and Terentia invited Cicero's brother Quintus Tullius Cicero and his new wife Pomponia ( a sister to Cicero ’ s friend Atticus ) in order to improve and solidify the marriage.

Pomponia Caecilia Attica, usually called Caecilia Attica ( born 51 BC ), was the daughter of Titus Pomponius Atticus, the first wife of general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and mother of Vipsania Agrippina.

Pomponia Ummidia was a descendant of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the wife of consul Flavius Antiochianus.

Scipio Africanus presumably married his wife Aemilia Tertia by confarreatio, because their elder son was Flamen Dialis ; yet Scipio's mother Pomponia was a plebeian.

He also ties Titus Flavius Sabinus to Aulus Plautius and his wife Pomponia Graecina by marriage, the latter of whom is by scholars presumed to have converted to Christianity, and who possibly used her son-in-law's status as Lord Mayor of Rome to try to protect Paul while he was under house arrest during his first stay in Rome.

My wife died in childbirth after I was sent away.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

These are the poems Hardy wrote after the death of his first wife ; ;

A 24-year-old Atlanta man was arrested Sunday after breaking into the home of relatives in search of his wife, hitting his uncle with a rock and assaulting two police officers who tried to subdue him, police said.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

" Othon treats his wife and children unkindly, but after his son dies of the plague, his character softens.

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

His father, for example, was guillotined during the French Revolution and his wife died shortly after their marriage.

The last of the Ainu households disappeared in the late 1960s, when Yamanaka Kitaro committed suicide after the death of his wife.

Aeneas founded the city of Lavinium, named after his wife.

Atreus, Agamemnon's father, murdered the children of his twin brother Thyestes and fed them to him after discovering Thyestes ' adultery with his wife Aerope.

Alaric's wife was reportedly taken prisoner after this battle ; it is not unreasonable to suppose that he and his troops were hampered by the presence of large numbers of women and children, which gave his invasion of Italy the character of a human migration.

Some time before 568, Alboin's first wife Chlothsind died, and after his victory against Cunimund Alboin married Rosamund, to establish a bond with the remaining Gepids.

Hera, after requesting Zeus to swear an oath to that effect, descended from Olympus to Argos and made the wife of Sthenelus ( a son of Perseus ) give birth to Eurystheus after only seven months, while at the same time preventing Alcmene from delivering Heracles.

The press was continued after Aldus ’ s death in 1515 by his wife and her father until his son Paolo ( 1512 – 1574 ) took over.

The most the Grand Duke of Lithuania could do was to garrison Smolensk and other strongholds and employ his wife Helena, the Tsar's daughter, to mediate a truce between his father-in-law and himself after the disastrous Battle of Vedrosha ( 1500 ).

Her husband died, apparently in the early years of her marriage, leaving her with two children, Athalaric and Matasuntha ( c. 517 – after 550 ), wife c. 550 of Germanus.

His wife died in 1876 after 23 years of happy marriage.

Amalric died of dysentery ( allegedly brought on by " a surfeit of white mullet ") or even poisoned at Saint Jean d ' Acre on 1 April 1205, just after his son Amalric and four days before his wife, and was buried at Saint Sophia, Nicosia.

Alphonse's wife Joan ( who died five days after Alphonse ) had attempted to dispose of some of her inherited lands in her will.

Abigail (, spelled Abigal in ) was the wife of Nabal ; she became a wife of David after Nabal's death ( 1 Samuel ).

Fátimih was brought from Persia to Acre, Israel after both Bahá ’ u ’ lláh and his wife Navváb expressed an interest in her to marry ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá.

He married his first wife, Anne Child, in about 1677 in Ecton and emigrated with her to Boston in 1683 ; they had three children before emigrating, and four after.

In 1542, following the execution of Henry's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, the unmarried Henry invited Mary to attend the royal Christmas festivities.

More's home and estate along the Thames in Chelsea was confiscated by the Crown from his wife Alice after his execution.

* After the execution of his wife Messalina, Claudius gets senatorial approval to marry his niece, Agrippina the Younger.

The film begins in 1536 when Henry VIII ( Richard Burton ) considers whether or not he should sign the warrant for the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn: then, in a long flashback which takes up virtually the entire film, the whole truth is revealed.

A letter from Llywelyn to William's wife, Eva de Braose, written shortly after the execution enquires whether she still wishes the marriage between Dafydd and Isabella to take place.

Due to his devotion to her, Messalina was able to manipulate Claudius into ordering the exile or execution of various people: the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger ; Claudius ’ nieces Julia Livilla and Julia ; Marcus Vinicius ( husband of Julia Livilla ); consul Gaius Asinius Pollio II ( see Vipsania Agrippina ); the elder Poppaea Sabina ( mother of Empress Poppaea Sabina, second wife of Nero ); consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus ; and Polybius.

In May 1536, immediately following the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn ( Merle Oberon ), King Henry VIII ( Charles Laughton ) marries Jane Seymour ( Wendy Barrie ), who dies in childbirth eighteen months later.

After the execution of Catherine Howard, there were rumours that Wyatt's wife, Elizabeth, was a possibility for wife number six, despite the fact that she was still married to Wyatt.

To this was added the execution of the wife and daughter of the Emperor Diocletian, who had fled from the court of Licinius before being discovered at Thessalonica.

After her execution, the manor returned to the King who held it until his death in 1547, when it passed to his final wife Katherine Parr, who lived in the house with her stepdaughter Princess Elizabeth.

In 1542, Henry sought to execute his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, whom he accused of committing adultery ; the execution was to be authorised not after a trial but by a bill of attainder, to which he would have to personally assent after listening to the entire text.

When the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, Chiang ordered the execution of Yang, his wife and his son as a small child.

In the case of Catherine Howard, in 1541 King Henry VIII was the first monarch to delegate Royal Assent, to avoid having to assent personally to the execution of his wife.

At this point Stroud's mother appealed to President Woodrow Wilson and his wife, Edith Bolling Wilson, and the execution was halted and Stroud's sentence was again commuted to life imprisonment.

In 1633, Henry II, Prince of Condé, grandson of Louis I de Bourbon, inherited the duchy of Montmorency, near Paris, after the execution of Henri II de Montmorency, brother of his wife Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency.

Roland had killed himself at Rouen on 15 November 1793, a week after the execution of his wife.

Canning wrote to his wife on 1 August: " Now for the execution and I confess to my own love, I wake an hour or two earlier than I ought to, thinking of this execution.

Virtually nothing, except that she was named after Clarendon's first wife, is known of her life before 1649, when her family fled to Holland after the execution of King Charles I.

It is believed that his second wife Anne Boleyn was watching a game of real tennis when she was arrested and that Henry was playing tennis when news was brought to him of her execution.

* Full sister to Herod V ( king of Chalkis ), Herod Agrippa ( king of Judea ), Aristobulus V, and Mariamne III ( wife of Crown Prince Antipater and, after his execution by Herod the Great, she was possibly the first wife Herod Archelaus, principal heir of Herod the Great and ethnarch of Judea )

As Moltke wrote to his wife just before his execution " we are to be hanged for thinking together.