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Apr 13, 2011 · Born in Manorbier Castle on the south coast of Pembrokeshire in approximately 1146, Giraldus came from a mixed Norman-Welsh background. His father, William de Barri, was one of the leading...
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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.
Oct 4, 2012 · Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval scholar Gerald of Wales, the author of colourful and influential works about his journeys around Ireland and Wales. Show more.
- 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.
Gerald of Wales (1146–1223) was a man with a busy career in church and court, whose prolific writings provide a vivid window on entangled Anglo-French, Anglo-Welsh, and Anglo-Irish interactions.
Gerald was born in south-west Wales of mixed Norman and Welsh descent and educated at Gloucester and in Paris. He worked for Henry II and Richard I, by whom he was valued as an intermediary between the king and Gerald's relations, who included the leading Welsh king, Rhys ap Gruffudd, and many of the first English settlers in Ireland.
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Gerald of Wales was a respected Welsh historian and chronicler. He wrote of the discovery of the tomb of King Arthur. The tomb, it is argued, is at Glastonbury Abbey. Gerald's writing on the subject has fuelled the legend of King Arthur.
