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Welsh history and its sources
Welsh history and its sources

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Giraldus Cambrensis/ Gerallt Cymro /Gerald of Wales

(c.1146–1223) Archdeacon of Brecon. Undertook famous itinerary around Wales in 1188 with Bishop Baldwin to recruit soldiers for the third crusade. Resulted in one of the most important of medieval source writings, the Itinerarium Kambriae (The Journey through Wales). Great proponent of independence of see of St Davids from Canterbury.

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