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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'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'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'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 ...
... the copy shown here is one in the Cathedral Library that was donated to us by Richard Colt Hoare. Ironically our Colt Hoare of #Gerald's work is in Latin ...
