King Prasutagus left half his kingdom to Nero to protect his daughters, and Tacitus says Roman officers flogged his widow Boudica and raped his daughters

Prasutagus, king of the Iceni in eastern Britain, ruled as an ally of Rome. Tacitus says he named the emperor Nero co-heir with his two daughters, expecting that this would keep his kingdom and household safe. When he died, centurions plundered the kingdom and slaves plundered his house. Tacitus says his wife Boudica was scourged and his daughters outraged (in Latin, stupro violatae: raped). Cassius Dio gives two further causes. The procurator Decianus Catus demanded repayment of money the emperor Claudius had given to the leading Britons. Seneca had lent the Britons 40,000,000 sesterces they did not want and called in the whole sum at once. Boudica raised the tribes in revolt in AD 60 or 61. Dio describes her as very tall, with a harsh voice and a great mass of tawny hair. Dio says that before the final battle against the governor Suetonius Paulinus ended, she fell sick and died, and the Britons gave her a costly burial. Dio does not say where. The kingdom Prasutagus had tried to pass to his daughters was taken by Rome. Coins found in Suffolk carry the name "Esuprastus," which some archaeologists read as his true name.