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became tributary to Eome, and Claudius went home. The Brut 

 says that when Claudius made peace with Gweyrydd he promised 

 to give him a daughter of his to wife, and afterwards fulfilled 

 his promise. It does not seem beyond belief that he might have 

 given him a daughter born to him in the time of his earlier and 

 lower rank of life. He was fifty years old when he took the 

 purple (Eutropius), and was not a very good or high-minded 

 man, and his Imperial wife Agrippiua poisoned him. We learn 

 from Suetonius that Claudius had children by three wives. By 

 Urgulanilla, Drusus and Claudius, by Pelina Antonia, by 

 Messalina Octavia, and a son whom he at first called Germanicus } 

 and then Britannicus. Now the copy of the Brut called the 

 " Brut Tyssilio " does not give the name of the daughter whom 

 Claudius gave to Gweyrydd, but I find from a note by the editor 

 of an English version of it that a Welsh copy (in the Welsh 

 Archaeology and called the Brut Grussudd Arthur, calls her 

 Genuylles. But Lo Genuylles, in which the u has taken the stead 

 of an n, is clearly a British common noun, now written Gennilles, 

 which means simply a young nymph, young lady or maiden, and 

 was only an epithet for her, and could not have been her Eoman 

 name, which might have been Claudia or Antonia, or Octavia, 

 though she might have been like many other brides and Gen- 

 nilles, a young nymph, or young lady. Geoffrey, of Monmouth, 

 w rote from a source with another form of the name, which he 

 gives as Genuissa. Nor is it very wonderful that he should thus 

 win a friend to the Romans in Gweirydd. It seems to me to be 

 a fair step for a further footing of the Romans in the land thus 

 to win a son-in-law who was prince of the south-west of Britain 

 and emperor of the whole island. Of the wedlock of a Roman 

 nobleman (Pudens) with a British lady, most likely a princess 

 of the king of Caractacus, Gwladys Rhyffydd, called by the 

 Romans Claudia Ruffina, we have a witness in Martial, who 

 wrote two epigrams on their union. By the Brut we are told 

 that after Claudius had given his daughter to Gweyrydd he 

 built a city (a Roman castra) on the Severn, which from his 

 name was called Claudia castra, in British Caer Gloew (Glouces- 



