At that battle on the Idistaviso plain, his wife Thusnelda was captured.  
He covered his face in blood to avoid being recognized by his opponent's army after suffering a major defeat in the Valley of the Maidens.  At that battle on the Idistaviso plain, his wife Thusnelda was captured.  Seven years earlier, he had won a major victory in the aftermath of which a number of prisoners were nailed to trees while still alive.  As a youth, this son of Segimer served as an auxiliary in the army he would later oppose.  His great victory was achieved near Detmold, and led to the suicide of a former governor of Syria who had married the grand-niece of Augustus.  FTP, name this chief of the Cherusci, who in 9 AD defeated three Roman legions led by Varus in the Teutoberg Forest.
He covered his face in blood to avoid being recognized by his opponent's army after suffering a major defeat in the Valley of the Maidens.  
Arminius or Hermann