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Venissa

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Venissa cannot be considered historical. She is not mentioned in authentic Roman history; her supposed husband Arvirargus is known only from a cryptic reference in a 2nd-century satirical poem by
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According to Geoffrey's account she was very beautiful, and so enchanted Arvirargus that he preferred her company to anyone else's. He founded
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Sun Bright and Well Beloved: Three Hundred Years of a North American Family and Their Farther Past
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Allen, John Stanley; Allen, Richard (1998). "In Search Of Venissa Julia Among the Caesars".
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was sent to enforce a reconciliation, Venissa acted as mediator between them.
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Lives of the Queens of England Before the Norman Conquest
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Index

Geoffrey of Monmouth
Historia Regum Britanniae
Roman Emperor
Claudius
Arvirargus
Gloucester
Vespasian
Juvenal
Caratacus
Tudor period
Lives of the Queens of England Before the Norman Conquest
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
Historia Regum Britanniae
4.15-16
Sun Bright and Well Beloved: Three Hundred Years of a North American Family and Their Farther Past
ISBN
9780968380604
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t
e
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Works
Prophetiae Merlini
Historia Regum Britanniae
Vita Merlini
Translations
Roman de Brut
Layamon's Brut
Brut y Brenhinedd

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