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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. As a royal clerk to the king and two archbishops, he travelled widely and wrote extensively. He studied and taught in France and visited Rome several times, meeting the Pope.
Also called: Gerald Of Wales, or Gerald De Barri. Born: c. 1146,, Manorbier Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Died: c. 1223. Giraldus Cambrensis (born c. 1146, Manorbier Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales—died c. 1223) was the archdeacon of Brecknock, Brecknockshire (1175–1204), and historian, whose accounts of life in the late 12th century stand as ...
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Apr 29, 2020 · A Leverhulme funded research project led by Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards aims to publish authoritative editions of most of Gerald of Wales's works, a medieval Latin writer on Anglo-French, Anglo-Welsh, and Anglo-Irish interactions. The project will also provide translations and commentary for the works, which are currently only accessible in poor modern translations or in the nineteenth-century Rolls Series.
- He was the grandson of Welsh royalty. Youngest son of a Marcher lord, Gerald descended from Normans on his father’s side, and Welsh on his mother’s. As Georgia Henley and A. Joseph McMullen remark, “his grandmother was the Welsh princess Nest, the only legitimate daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, who was widely regarded at the time of his death in 1093 as the last king of Deheubarth (a kingdom in southern Wales).”
- He was a clerk under three Plantagenet kings. Because of his good upbringing and even better schooling – Gerald had studied and taught with the best theologians in Paris – he was hired as a clerk by Henry II, then Prince John.
- He had a sense of humour. Although Gerald seems to have become increasingly sour as his ambitions to St. Davids were repeatedly thwarted, he did find time to laugh – at misguided clerics.
- His writings on Ireland were influential into Tudor times. Gerald spent a year in Ireland in the service of the Plantagenets, and his writings on the Irish were not flattering.
Apr 13, 2011 · Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, Gerallt Cymro in Welsh, Gerald of Wales in English - the man had as many names as he had careers. Born in Manorbier Castle on the south coast of Pembrokeshire...
Gerald of Wales (c. 1146– c. 1223) was a cleric and writer of mixed Norman and Welsh ancestry. He wrote about the history and topography of Ireland and Wales, and criticized the Irish for their barbarism and paganism.
May 14, 2018 · People. History. Historians, British: Biographies. Gerald of Wales. views 2,824,888 updated May 14 2018. Gerald of Wales (1146–1223). Gerald was born at Manorbier in Pembrokeshire with a Norman father and a Welsh mother—consequently, he reflected, he was not accepted by either side.
