Volume 2

The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, A.D. MCLXXXVIII / By Giraldus de Barri; translated into English, and illustrated with views, annotations, and a life of Giraldus, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, bart.

  • Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?
Date:
1806
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Credit: The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, A.D. MCLXXXVIII / By Giraldus de Barri; translated into English, and illustrated with views, annotations, and a life of Giraldus, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 9? ] There is a wide chasm in the chronological series of bishops after Daniel; for the next recorded in church history is Ellodu, or Elbo- dius, who died A. D. 811 :x here again the series is interrupted, for the next we hear of is Mordaf, who accompanied the celebrated legislator Howel Dha to Rome in the year 940, where he went to procure, from the Pope, the ratification of his newly established code of Welsh laws. The death of this bishop is fixed in 942J thence called Llanbadarn Vawr, consisting of 120 members, where he had the title of archbishop. He was one of the most distinguished of the British saints. 8. In Lleyn was Cor Beuno, or the congregation of Beuno; which he founded about the close of the sixth century. It came afterwards to be called Bangor Clynog, or College of Clynog, and lately Clynog Vawr in Arvon. 9, 10. Anglesey. Here were two religious seminaries. Cor Cybi, or congregation of Cybi, at Holyhead, founded b}r him about the close of the sixth century; also Cor Penmon, at Priestholme near Beaumaris, also called Cor Seiriol, founded by Seiriol, who placed his nephew Einion over it, about the beginning of the sixth century. 11. Bangor Asav, afterwards called Llanelwy by the Welsh, and St. Asaph by the English, was founded by Asav, under the direction of Cyndeyrn, or Kentigern, in the former part of the sixth century. It is called Llanelwy, from its situation on the river Elwy. 12. Bangor Is Coed, also called Bangor Vawr yn Maelor, Bangor Maelor, and Bangor Dunod, founded by Dunod, son of Pabo, and his sons Deiniol, Cynwyl, and Gwarthan, in the beginning of the sixth century, upon lands granted by Cyngen, king of a part of Powys and the Vale Royal. This college never flourished after the massacre of its members in the bloody battle fought there in 603, when the Britons were defeated under Brochwel, and by the instigation of Augustine the monk. x The death of this bishop is mentioned in the Welsh Chronicle, as having happened in the year 809. “ The next yeare died Elbodius, Archbishop of North Wales, before whose death the sunne was sore eclipsed.” y The Welsh Chronicle says, “ that in the year 943 Marclois Bishop of Bangor died.” As the name of no such person occurs in the history of that see, and as a bishop by the name of Marchluith is recorded amongst the Bishops of Landaff, as having died in the year 943, I am inclined to think, that the Welsh Chronicle is wrong in its statement, and that the bishop there mentioned presided over the see of Landaff, and not of Bangor. VOL. II. o