CLAUDIA RUFINA (fl. A.D. 53) born Gladys, the daughter of Caratacus, Chief of the British Silures, was brought to Rome with her father, his sister Gladys and other relatives, as hostage in A.D. 53. She was made a ward of the Emperor Claudius and married Rufus Pudens Pudentius, a Senator and former officer under Aulus Plautius, who himself married her aunt Gladys. Martial refers to her as Claudia Rufina, a great beauty, blue-eyed and of British royal blood. It is possible that she and her husband are the Claudia and Pudens mentioned by St. Paul in his Second Letter to Timothy.