The Brigantes were a Celtic tribe who in pre-Roman times control the largest section of what will become Northern England, and a significant part of the Midlands.

Their kingdom is sometimes called Brigantia, and it is centered in what is later known as Yorkshire.

Ptolemy lists the Brigantes also as a tribe in Ireland, where they could be found around Wexford, Kilkenny and Waterford while another probably Celtic tribe named Brigantii is mentioned by Strabo as a sub-tribe of the Vindelici in the region of the Alps.

Within Great Britain, the territory which the Brigantes inhabit is bordered by that of four other Celtic tribes: the Carvetii (to whom they may have been related) in the Northwest, the Parisii to the east and, to the south, the Corieltauvi and the Cornovii.

To the North is the territory of the Votadini, which straddles the present border between England and Scotland.