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Promised @EcclesHistSoc to do Thread on #GeraldusCambrensis
aka Gerald de Barri
aka Gerald the Welshman
aka #GeralltCymro.
For brevity will call him Gerald.
Gerald was born in Manorbier Castle c.1146 and died c.1223
He may be resting in this tomb in @StDavidsCath ...
aka Gerald de Barri
aka Gerald the Welshman
aka #GeralltCymro.
For brevity will call him Gerald.
Gerald was born in Manorbier Castle c.1146 and died c.1223
He may be resting in this tomb in @StDavidsCath ...
... #Gerald was thwarted in his ambition to become Bishop of Wales, but 800 years later is now known more widely for his writings than are those who came before & after his unconfirmed election to the episcopate ...
... #Gerald wrote, and revised earlier writings, to provide the works in his name that we have today. The current global pandemic may be thwarting our plans & ambitions, but it may be that it will also open doors & focus energies in ways that will prove to have lasting impact ...
... #Gerald was a tutor to Prince John, later King John.
In 1174 he was appointed Archdeacon of Brecon, in Diocese of St David& #39;s
In 1176 he was nominated Bishop of St Davids by the Chapter to replace his uncle. His Cymric-Norman heritage would seem to make him appropriate ...
In 1174 he was appointed Archdeacon of Brecon, in Diocese of St David& #39;s
In 1176 he was nominated Bishop of St Davids by the Chapter to replace his uncle. His Cymric-Norman heritage would seem to make him appropriate ...
... But Henry II would not appoint #Gerald and appointed Benedictine Prior Peter de Leia instead. It is thought because Gerald was "too Welsh". #Gerald did not take the rejection well - to put it mildly ...
... #Gerald left Wales, moving first to Paris to study, write & lecture/teach, then later to Ireland. His time there is recorded in his Expugnatio Hibernica & Topographia Hibernica. He was offered the Bishopric of #Ferns but for him it was St Davids or nothing ...
... In 1188 #Gerald accompanied Archbishop Baldwin on a tour through Wales to rally funds & soldiers for the third crusade. His account of this tour and the places visited resulted in his best known work in Wales: Itinerarium Kambriae / Itinerary of Wales ...
... one of the best known translations of the Itinerary, and #Gerald& #39;s Descriptio Cambriae, into English from the original Latin was undertaken by Sir Richard Colt Hoare. In his frontispiece, he imagined a portrait of #Gerald based on the effigy on the tomb in @StDavidsCath ...
