Who is Queen Boadicia from the Anglo-Saxon period? What is her relevance?

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Brassica_Catonis

Are you sure Boudica isn't the right person? Boadicia is an alternative spelling for Boudica from the 17th and 18th centuries. What text are you reading?

Zither13

Even considering it a Latinized version, "Boadicia" is by no stretch an Anglo-Saxon name. I've been working recently in Germanic onomastica, so that sticks out. In fact, last weekend I was crunching some names in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

Give us a clue. About when did she live? To whom was she married? Did she have sons or take holy orders?

It is one of the known variations of Boudica, which I have seen rendered as Boudikka, even. That would make her a pre-Norman queen, but a pre-AS Briton.