19 Facts About Giraldus Cambrensis

Giraldus Cambrensis studied and taught in France and visited Rome several times, meeting the Pope.

Giraldus Cambrensis was nominated for several bishoprics but turned them down in the hope of becoming Bishop of St Davids, but was unsuccessful despite considerable support.

Giraldus Cambrensis's mother was Angharad FitzGerald, a daughter of Gerald FitzWalter of Windsor, Constable of Pembroke Castle, and his wife Nest ferch Rhys, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, the last King of South Wales.

Giraldus Cambrensis was employed by Richard of Dover, the Archbishop of Canterbury, on various ecclesiastical missions in Wales, wherein he distinguished himself for his efforts to remove supposed abuses of consanguinity and tax laws flourishing in the Welsh church at the time.

Giraldus Cambrensis was appointed in 1174 as Archdeacon of Brecon, to which was attached a residence at Llanddew.

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Giraldus Cambrensis obtained this position by reporting the existence of the previous archdeacon's mistress; the man was promptly sacked.

Giraldus Cambrensis returned to England and spent an additional five years studying theology.

Giraldus Cambrensis was chosen to accompany one of the king's sons, John, in 1185 on John's first expedition to Ireland.

Giraldus Cambrensis followed it up, shortly afterwards, with an account of Henry's conquest of Ireland, the Expugnatio Hibernica.

Giraldus Cambrensis turned them all down, possibly in the hopes of landing a more prominent bishopric in the future.

Giraldus Cambrensis was acquainted with Walter Map, whose career shares some similarities with Gerald's.

Giraldus Cambrensis visited Rome on three occasions in support of his claims.

Giraldus Cambrensis was afterwards reconciled with the king and was forced to make a vow never to support the primacy of St Davids over Canterbury ever again.

Giraldus Cambrensis spent two years in Ireland with his relatives and made a fourth visit to Rome, purely as a pilgrimage, in 1206.

Giraldus Cambrensis died in about 1223 in his 77th year, probably in Hereford and he is, according to some accounts, buried at St Davids Cathedral.

Giraldus Cambrensis was respected as a scholar in his time and afterwards.

Giraldus Cambrensis had pleasant things to say about the poetic talents of his people, too:.

Giraldus Cambrensis gives a vivid and accurate description of the last colony of the Eurasian beaver in Wales on the Teifi, but spoils it by repeating the legend that beavers castrate themselves to avoid danger.

Giraldus Cambrensis observed the great numbers of birds of prey in Ireland, including the golden eagle and the Eurasian sparrowhawk, which he said were more numerous in Ireland than in England.