Aedui

The Aedui or Haedui (Gaulish: *Aiduoi, 'the Ardent') were a Gallic people dwelling in central-eastern Gaul, in the country between the Loire and the Saône (modern Burgundy), during the Iron Age and the Roman period. From the middle of the 2nd century BC they were allies of Rome, the first people of inner Gaul to conclude a formal treaty (foedus) with the Republic and, according to Tacitus, the only Gauls to bear the title fratres populi Romani ('brothers of the Roman people'). During the Gallic Wars (58–50 BC) they gave Caesar important if uneven support before briefly joining the revolt of Vercingetorix in 52 BC. Their aristocracy was thereafter rapidly integrated into the Roman order, and under Claudius in 48 AD they were the first Gauls admitted to the Roman Senate. Their principal oppidum, Bibracte on Mont Beuvray, was replaced under Augustus by a new capital, Augustodunum (Autun).