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Julius Caesar landed in Cantium in 55 and 54 BC , the first Roman expeditions to Britain. He recounts in his '' De Bello Gallico '' v. 14: "Ex his omnibus longe sunt humanissimi qui Cantium incolunt, quae regio est maritima omnis, neque multum a Gallica differunt consuetudine." :"Of all these (British tribes), by far the most civilised are they who dwell in Kent, which is entirely a maritime region, and who differ but little from the Gauls in their customs". RULERS Pre-Roman Iron Age Caesar mentions four kings, Segovax , Carvilius , Cingetorix and Taximagulus , who held power in Cantium at the time of his second expedition in 54 BC . The British leader Cassivellaunus , besieged in his stronghold north of the Thames, sent a message to these four kings to attack the Roman naval camp as a distraction. The attack failed, a chieftain called Lugotorix was captured, and Cassivellaunus was forced to seek terms. In the century between Caesar's expeditions and the conquest under Claudius , kings in Britain began to issue coins stamped with their names. The following kings of the Cantiaci are known:
Sub-Roman period According to Nennius , Gwrangon was King of Kent in the time of Vortigern , until Vortigern took away the kingdom and gave it to Hengist ; but Nennius is regarded as an untrustworthy source, and “Gwrangon seems to have been transported by the story-teller into Kent from Gwent” and “is turned into an imaginary King of Kent, secretly disposed of his realm in favour of Hengist, whose daughter Vortigern wished to marry” (Wade-Evans 1938). REFERENCES
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