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Sevira, daughter of Maximus

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Bartrum, Peter C. "SEVERA daughter of MAXIMUS.", in A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend up to about A. D. 1000, p. 236. National Library of Wales, 1993. Emended 2009, p. 672.
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The Pillar of Eliseg inscription is the only known source for a daughter of Magnus Maximus named Sevira (or Severa).
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Charles-Edwards, T. M., Wales and the Britons, 350-1064, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013, p. 414ff.
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Purported daughter of the Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus
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Sevira daughter of Maximus
Vulgar Latin
Classical Latin
Roman Emperor
Magnus Maximus
Vortigern
ninth century
Latin
Pillar of Eliseg
Yale
Valle Crucis Abbey
Denbighshire
Cyngen ap Cadell
king of Powys
Elisedd ap Gwylog
"Origin Legends in Ireland and Celtic Britain"
ISBN
978-90-04-52066-0
"The Early Anglo-Saxon Kings"
cite journal
help


"Rethinking the pillar of Eliseg"
doi
10.1017/S0003581509000018
ISSN
1758-5309
"Constantine, Helena, Maximus: on the appropriation of Roman history in medieval Wales, c. 800–1250"
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