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{{short description|1st century seeress of the Bructeri, a Germanic people}} {{other uses}} {{rewrite|date=January 2020}}[[File:Augustins - Velleda - Laurent Marqueste 2004 1 431.jpg|thumb|Statue of Veleda by [[Laurent Marqueste]] ({{circa|1877}})]] [[File:Germania, 1882 "Veleda, profetisa de los germanos". (4358472779).jpg|thumb|"Veleda, prophetess of the Germans," by Juan Scherr (1882)]] '''Veleda''' ({{floruit|AD 69β84}}) was a [[Seeress (Germanic)|seeress]] of the [[Bructeri]], a [[Germanic peoples|Germanic people]] who achieved some prominence during the [[Batavian rebellion]] of AD 69–70, headed by the Romanized [[Batavii|Batavian]] chieftain [[Gaius Julius Civilis]], when she correctly predicted the initial successes of the rebels against Roman legions.
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