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    Gerald of Wales (Latin: Giraldus Cambrensis; Welsh: Gerallt Cymro; French: Gerald de Barri; c. 1146 – c. 1223) was a Cambro-Norman priest and historian...
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    by Gerald of Wales. Appointed as Archdeacon of Brecknock in 1175, he also worked as a historian and writer and accompanied the future King John of England...
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  • Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales), medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times Gerald Cohen (1941–2009), Canadian professor of social and political...
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    changed considerably over time. Contemporary chroniclers such as Gerald of Wales and William of Newburgh, though sometimes unfavourable, generally laud his...
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    Avalon (redirect from The Isle of Avalon)
    William of Malmesbury claimed the name of Avalon came from a man called Avalloc, who once lived on this isle with his daughters. Gerald of Wales similarly...
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    student at the University of St Andrews. Boece is most likely to be influenced by Topographia Hibernica, compiled by Gerald of Wales around 1188. The most...
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    Welsh bow (category Medieval history of Wales)
    documented by Gerald of Wales about 1188, who writes of the bows used by the Welsh men of Gwent: "They are made neither of horn, ash nor yew, but of elm. He...
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    the coffin. Roger of Hoveden's chronicle is the source of this version; the detail of Philip's hysterical grief is from Gerald of Wales. In the second version...
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    FitzWalter) was the first Castellan of Pembroke Castle in Wales, and became the male progenitor of the FitzMaurice and FitzGerald Dynasty ("fitz", from the Anglo-Norman...
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    Wales has one of the oldest unbroken literary traditions in Europe going back to the sixth century and including Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gerald of Wales...
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  • Wales (magazine), a literary journal edited by Keidrych Rhys, published 1937–1959 Prince of Wales (disambiguation) Princess of Wales Gerald of Wales (c...
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    Saint David (redirect from David of Wales)
    Bernard, Bishop of St David's, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Gerald of Wales. The Monastic Rule of David prescribed that monks had to pull the plough themselves...
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     1202), Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis c. 1146 – c. 1223) and Ralph Niger (c. 1140 – c. 1217). While some were relatively neutral, Map and Gerald were...
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    mother of Robert de Barry, Philip de Barry, founder of Ballybeg Abbey at Buttevant in Ireland, and of Gerald de Barry, better known as Gerald of Wales. Gwladys...
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    Londinium (redirect from Sack of Londinium)
    renaming of an older one. In the 12th century, Gerald of Wales listed "Londonia" as the capital of Flavia, having had Britannia Prima (Wales) and Secunda...
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    Topography of Ireland), also known as Topographia Hiberniae, is an account of the landscape and people of Ireland written by Gerald of Wales around 1188...
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  • Donnchadh mac Murchada (category Kings of Leinster)
    near contemporary account by Gerald of Wales, suggests that the King of Dublin lured him to Dublin under false pretence of peace, killed him and then buried...
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    Morgan le Fay (category Family of King Arthur)
    Academia. Retrieved 7 September 2015. "Two Accounts of the Exhumation of Arthur's Body: Gerald of Wales". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original...
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    scholar Gerald of Wales (c.1146 – c.1223), whose Topographica Hibernica et Expugnatio Hibernica is a description of Ireland from the Anglo-Norman point of view...
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    Glastonbury Tor (category Hills of Somerset)
    believed by some, including the 12th and 13th century writer Gerald of Wales, to be the Avalon of Arthurian legend. The Tor has been associated with the name...
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    archdeacon of Brecon, Gerald of Wales, made this claim in his Topographia Hiberniae. Since barnacle geese were thought to be "neither flesh, nor born of flesh"...
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    You Can't Cheat an Honest Man. Iconography of the bearded Mary Topographia Hibernica written by Gerald of Wales Wilgefortis Helena Antonia Magdalena Ventura...
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    events, the scholar Gerald of Wales, in a rare quote from these times, wrote what Owain Gwynedd said to his troops on the eve of battle: "My opinion,...
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    seems to have been quite popular. The medieval historian Gerald of Wales tells a similar story of a boy, a truant from school, who "encountered two pigmies...
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    questionable. Large numbers of children are mentioned among the Celts by the ancient authors. The statement of Gerald of Wales that incest had a pervasive...
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    Torc (category Military awards and decorations of ancient Rome)
    Vision of Britain: Gerald of Wales, The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, Chapter 2 Lady Gregory (2004) [1905]. "The Reign of Bres". Gods...
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  • David FitzGerald (sometimes David Fitz Gerald or David fitz Gerald; c. 1106 – 8 May 1176) was a medieval Bishop of St David's in Wales. FitzGerald was the...
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    12th century in literature (category History of literature)
    Joseph of Exeter c. 1186–87 Historia brevis regum Dacie by Sven Aggesen 1188 Topographia Hibernica ("Topography of Ireland") by Gerald of Wales 1190s Chronicle...
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    around Barry, Wales, including Barry Island just off the coast. Odo's grandson, Gerald of Wales, a 12th-century scholar, gives the origin of his family's...
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  • 13th century in literature (category History of literature)
    Strassburg, German writer 1212 – Adam of Dryburgh, Anglo-Scots theologian (born c. 1140) 1223 – Gerald of Wales, Cambro-Norman churchman and topographer...
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