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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svat%C3%BD_Gilda" title="Svatý Gilda – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Svatý Gilda" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas" title="Gildas – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Gildas" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas" title="Gildas – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Gildas" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas" title="Gildas – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Gildas" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%AF%CE%BB%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%82" title="Γκίλντας – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γκίλντας" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas" title="Gildas – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Gildas" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankta_Gildas" title="Sankta Gildas – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Sankta Gildas" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="گیلداس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="گیلداس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas_le_Sage" title="Gildas le Sage – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Gildas le Sage" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas" title="Gildas – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Gildas" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xildas" title="Xildas – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Xildas" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B8%EB%8B%A4%EC%8A%A4_%EC%82%AC%ED%94%BC%EC%97%94%EC%8A%A4" title="길다스 사피엔스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="길다스 사피엔스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas" title="Gildas – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Gildas" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilda" title="Gilda – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Gilda" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas" title="Gildas – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Gildas" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szent_Gildas" title="Szent Gildas – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Szent Gildas" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="جيلداس – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جيلداس" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas" title="Gildas – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Gildas" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E3%82%B9" title="ギルダス – Japanese" lang="ja" 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style="white-space:nowrap;"> 450-500</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Strathclyde" title="Kingdom of Strathclyde">Kingdom of Strathclyde</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">570 (traditional)<br /><a href="/wiki/Rhuys" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhuys">Rhuys</a>, Brittany</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Venerated in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglican Communion</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Major <a href="/wiki/Shrine" title="Shrine">shrine</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey">Glastonbury Abbey</a> (destroyed)<br /><a href="/wiki/Rhuys" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhuys">Rhuys</a> Church</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">29 January</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Saint_symbolism" title="Saint symbolism">Attributes</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Monk holding a <a href="/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celtic</a> bell or writing in a book</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Patron_saint" title="Patron saint">Patronage</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Welsh_people" title="Welsh people">Welsh</a> historians; <a href="/wiki/Bell_(instrument)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bell (instrument)">bell</a> founders</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gildas</b> (English pronunciation: <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɡ/: 'g' in 'guy'">ɡ</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>, <a href="/wiki/Breton_language" title="Breton language">Breton</a>: <i>Gweltaz</i>; <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 450/500</span> – c.<span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 570</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-dates_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dates-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-date2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-date2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> — also known as <b>Gildas Badonicus</b>, <b>Gildas fab Caw</b> (in <a href="/wiki/Middle_Welsh" title="Middle Welsh">Middle Welsh</a> texts and antiquarian works) and <i><b>Gildas Sapiens</b></i> (Gildas the Wise) — was a 6th-century <a href="/wiki/Britons_(historic)" class="mw-redirect" title="Britons (historic)">British</a> monk best known for his scathing religious <a href="/wiki/Polemic" title="Polemic">polemic</a> <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/De_Excidio_et_Conquestu_Britanniae" title="De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae">De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae</a></i></span>, which recounts the history of the Britons before and during <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Britain" title="Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain">the coming of the Saxons</a>. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Sub-Roman" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-Roman">sub-Roman</a> period, and was renowned for his Biblical knowledge and literary style. In his later life, he emigrated to <a href="/wiki/Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a>, where he founded a monastery known as <a href="/wiki/Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys" title="Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys">Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hagiography">Hagiography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Hagiography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Differing versions of the <i>Life of Saint Gildas</i> exist, but both agree that he was born in what is now Scotland on the banks of the <a href="/wiki/River_Clyde" title="River Clyde">River Clyde</a>, and that he was the son of a royal family. These works were written in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and are regarded by scholars as unhistorical. He is now thought to have his origins farther south.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his own work, he claims to have been born the same year as the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Badon" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Mount Badon">Battle of Mount Badon</a>. He was educated at a monastic centre, the College of St. Illtud, where he chose to forsake his royal heritage and embrace monasticism. He became a renowned teacher, converting many to Christianity and founding numerous churches and monasteries throughout Britain and Ireland. He is thought to have made a pilgrimage to Rome before emigrating to Brittany, where he took on the life of a <a href="/wiki/Hermit" title="Hermit">hermit</a>. However, his life of solitude was short-lived, and pupils soon sought him out and begged him to teach them. He eventually founded a monastery for these students at <a href="/wiki/Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys" title="Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys">Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a>, where he wrote <i>De Excidio Britanniae,</i> criticising British rulers and exhorting them to put off their sins and embrace true Christian faith. He is thought to have died at Rhuys and was buried there. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St_Gildas_Fontaine_0708E.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/St_Gildas_Fontaine_0708E.jpg/220px-St_Gildas_Fontaine_0708E.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/St_Gildas_Fontaine_0708E.jpg/330px-St_Gildas_Fontaine_0708E.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/St_Gildas_Fontaine_0708E.jpg/440px-St_Gildas_Fontaine_0708E.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2688" data-file-height="1799" /></a><figcaption>The spring of St Gildas in <a href="/wiki/Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys" title="Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys">Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys</a>, Morbihan</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Biographies">Biographies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Biographies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The First <i>Life</i> of Gildas was written in the 9th century by an unnamed monk at the monastery which Gildas founded in <a href="/wiki/Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys" title="Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys">Rhuys</a>, Brittany.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Life_of_Gildas_by_the_Monk_of_Ruys_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Life_of_Gildas_by_the_Monk_of_Ruys-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to this tradition, Gildas is the son of <a href="/wiki/Caw_of_Strathclyde" title="Caw of Strathclyde">Caunus</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Alt_Clud" class="mw-redirect" title="Alt Clud">Alt Clud</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Hen_Ogledd" title="Hen Ogledd">Hen Ogledd</a></i>, the <a href="/wiki/Brythonic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Brythonic languages">Brythonic</a>-speaking region of northern Britain. He had four brothers; his brother Cuillum ascended to the throne on the death of his father, and the rest became monks. Gildas was sent as a child to the College of St. <a href="/wiki/Illtud" title="Illtud">Illtud</a> in <a href="/wiki/Glamorgan" title="Glamorgan">Glamorgan</a>, under the care of St <a href="/wiki/Illtud" title="Illtud">Illtud</a>, and was a companion of St <a href="/wiki/Samson_of_Dol" title="Samson of Dol">Samson of Dol</a> and St <a href="/wiki/Paul_Aurelian" title="Paul Aurelian">Paul Aurelian</a>. His master Illtud loved him tenderly and taught him with special zeal. He was supposed to be educated in liberal arts and divine scripture, but elected to study only holy doctrine, and to forsake his noble birth in favour of a religious life. </p><p>After completing his studies under Illtud, Gildas went to Ireland where he was ordained as a priest. He returned to his native lands in northern Britain where he acted as a missionary, preaching to the pagan people and converting many of them to <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>. He was then asked by Ainmericus, high king of Ireland (<a href="/wiki/Ainmuire_mac_S%C3%A9tnai" title="Ainmuire mac Sétnai">Ainmuire mac Sétnai</a>, 566–569), to restore order to the church in Ireland, which had altogether lost the Christian faith. Gildas obeyed the king's summons and travelled all over the island, converting the inhabitants, building churches, and establishing monasteries. He then travelled to Rome and Ravenna where he performed many miracles, including slaying a dragon while in Rome. Intending to return to Britain, he instead settled on the Isle of <a href="/wiki/Houat" title="Houat">Houat</a> off <a href="/wiki/Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a> where he led a solitary, austere life. At around this time, he also preached to <a href="/wiki/Saint_Non" title="Saint Non">Nonnita (Non)</a>, the mother of <a href="/wiki/Saint_David" title="Saint David">Saint David</a>, while she was pregnant with the saint.<sup id="cite_ref-cna_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cna-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was eventually sought out by those who wished to study under him, and was entreated to establish a monastery in Brittany, which he did at a place now known as <a href="/wiki/Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys" title="Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys">Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys</a>. </p><p>The second "Life" of Gildas was written by <a href="/wiki/Caradoc_of_Llancarfan" title="Caradoc of Llancarfan">Caradoc of Llancarfan</a>, a friend of <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_of_Monmouth" title="Geoffrey of Monmouth">Geoffrey of Monmouth</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Normans" title="Anglo-Normans">Norman</a> patrons.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Life_of_Gildas_by_Caradoc_of_Llancarfan_ca._1130-1150_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Life_of_Gildas_by_Caradoc_of_Llancarfan_ca._1130-1150-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is an entirely fictional account intended to associate Gildas with Glastonbury Abbey.<sup id="cite_ref-ondb_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ondb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also associates him with <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a>. Arthur kills Gildas's brother <a href="/wiki/Hueil_mab_Caw" title="Hueil mab Caw">Hueil</a>, which causes enmity between them for a time. Hueil's enmity with Arthur is also mentioned in the Welsh prose tale <i><a href="/wiki/Culhwch_and_Olwen" title="Culhwch and Olwen">Culhwch and Olwen</a></i>, written around 1100. A tradition in north Wales places Hueil's execution at <a href="/wiki/Ruthin" title="Ruthin">Ruthin</a>, and the supposed execution stone, <a href="/wiki/Maen_Huail" title="Maen Huail">Maen Huail</a>, is preserved in the town square.<sup id="cite_ref-coflein_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coflein-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Llancarfan life also contains the earliest surviving appearance of the abduction of the Guinevere episode, common in later Arthurian literature. Gildas secures the release of Guinevere after she had been abducted by Melvas, king of the "Summer Country", preventing war between him and Arthur.<sup id="cite_ref-Lambdin_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lambdin-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="De_Excidio_et_Conquestu_Britanniae"><i>De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/De_Excidio_et_Conquestu_Britanniae" title="De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae">De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae</a></div> <p>Gildas is best known for his <a href="/wiki/Polemic" title="Polemic">polemic</a> <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/De_Excidio_et_Conquestu_Britanniae" title="De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae">De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae</a></i></span>, which recounts the sub-Roman history of Britain, and which is the only substantial source for history of this period written by a near-contemporary, although it is not intended to be an objective chronicle.<sup id="cite_ref-Lambdin_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lambdin-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The work is a sermon in three parts condemning the acts of his contemporaries, both secular and religious.<sup id="cite_ref-butler_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-butler-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first part consists of Gildas' explanation for his work and a brief narrative of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman Britain</a> from its conquest under the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Principate</a> to Gildas' time. He describes the doings of the Romans and the <a href="/wiki/Groans_of_the_Britons" title="Groans of the Britons">Groans of the Britons</a>, in which the Britons make one last request for military aid from the departed Roman military. He excoriates his fellow Britons for their sins, while at the same time lauding heroes such as <a href="/wiki/Ambrosius_Aurelianus" title="Ambrosius Aurelianus">Ambrosius Aurelianus</a>, whom he is the first to describe as a leader of the resistance to the <a href="/wiki/Saxons#Saxons_in_Britain" title="Saxons">Saxons</a>. He mentions the victory at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mons_Badonicus" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Mons Badonicus">Battle of Mons Badonicus</a>, a feat attributed to <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a> in later texts, though Gildas does not mention who led the battle. </p><p>Part two consists of a condemnation of five British kings, <a href="/wiki/Constantine_(Briton)" title="Constantine (Briton)">Constantine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aurelius_Conanus" title="Aurelius Conanus">Aurelius Conanus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vortiporius" title="Vortiporius">Vortiporius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuneglas" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuneglas">Cuneglas</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Maelgwn_Gwynedd" title="Maelgwn Gwynedd">Maelgwn</a>. As it is the only contemporary information about them, it is of particular interest to scholars of British history. Part three is a similar attack on the clergy of the time. </p><p>The works of Gildas, including the <i>Excidio</i>, can be found in volume 69 of the <i><a href="/wiki/Patrologia_Latina" title="Patrologia Latina">Patrologia Latina</a>.</i> </p><p><i>De Excidio</i> was usually dated to the 540s, but the historian <a href="/wiki/Guy_Halsall" title="Guy Halsall">Guy Halsall</a> inclines to an "early Gildas" c. 490.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cambridge historian Karen George offered a date range of c. 510–530 AD.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Veneration">Veneration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Veneration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gildas' <a href="/wiki/Relics" class="mw-redirect" title="Relics">relics</a> were venerated in the abbey which he founded in Rhuys, until the 10th century, when they were removed to <a href="/wiki/Berry,_France" title="Berry, France">Berry</a>. In the 18th century, they were said to be moved to the cathedral at <a href="/wiki/Vannes" title="Vannes">Vannes</a> and then hidden during the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>. The various relics survived the revolution and have all since been returned to <a href="/wiki/Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys" title="Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys">Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys</a> where they are visible at various times of the year at a dedicated "treasury" in the village. The body of Saint Gildas (minus the pieces incorporated into various reliquaries) is buried behind the altar in the church of Saint Gildas de Rhuys.<sup id="cite_ref-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The gold and silver covered relics of Saint Gildas include: </p> <ul><li>A reliquary head containing parts of the saint's skull <sup id="cite_ref-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>An arm reliquary containing bone pieces, topped with a blessing hand <sup id="cite_ref-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A reliquary femur and knee <sup id="cite_ref-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The embroidered <a href="/wiki/Mitre" title="Mitre">mitre</a> supposedly worn by Gildas is also kept with these relics.<sup id="cite_ref-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gildas is the patron saint of several churches and monasteries in Brittany, and his feast day is celebrated on 29 January. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_traditions">Further traditions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Further traditions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gildas is credited with a <a href="/wiki/Hymn" title="Hymn">hymn</a> called the <i>Lorica</i>, or <i>Breastplate</i>, a prayer for deliverance from <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>, which contains specimens of <a href="/wiki/Hiberno-Latin" title="Hiberno-Latin">Hiberno-Latin</a>. A proverb is also attributed to <i>Gildas mab y Gaw</i> in the <i>Englynion y Clyweid</i> in Llanstephan MS. 27. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Bonedd_y_Saint" title="Bonedd y Saint">Bonedd y Saint</a></i>, Gildas is recorded as having three sons and a daughter. Gwynnog ap Gildas and Noethon ap Gildas are named in the earliest tracts, together with their sister Dolgar. Another son, Tydech, is named in a later document. <a href="/wiki/Iolo_Morganwg" title="Iolo Morganwg">Iolo Morganwg</a> adds Saint <a href="/wiki/Cenydd" title="Cenydd">Cenydd</a> to the list. </p><p>The scholar <a href="/wiki/David_Dumville" title="David Dumville">David Dumville</a> suggests that Gildas was the teacher of <a href="/wiki/Finnian_of_Moville" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnian of Moville">Finnian of Moville</a>, who in turn was the teacher of St <a href="/wiki/Columba" title="Columba">Columba</a> of <a href="/wiki/Iona" title="Iona">Iona</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gildas_the_Albanian" title="Gildas the Albanian">Gildas the Albanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Procopius" title="Procopius">Procopius</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-dates-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-dates_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The composition of De excidio has been dated to between 479 and 484 by <a href="/wiki/Nick_Higham_(historian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nick Higham (historian)">Nick Higham</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-highami_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-highami-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and between 515 and 530 by Thomas D. Sullivan.<sup id="cite_ref-sullivan171_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sullivan171-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This gives a birth date for Gildas around the middle of the fifth century.<sup id="cite_ref-ondb_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ondb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <a href="/wiki/David_Dumville" title="David Dumville">David Dumville</a> places it later at c. 500.<sup id="cite_ref-dumville1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dumville1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-date2-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-date2_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The date of Gildas death is taken from the <i><a href="/wiki/Annales_Cambriae" title="Annales Cambriae">Annales Cambriae</a></i>, this is regarded by François Kerlouégan "as, at best, traditional".<sup id="cite_ref-ondb_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ondb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">February 11 / January 29. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/htc/orthodox-calendar/">https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/htc/orthodox-calendar/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-highami-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-highami_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Higham. English Conquest: Gildas and Britain in the fifth century. p. i and p. 141</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sullivan171-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-sullivan171_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sullivan. De excidio of Gildas: its authenticity and date. p. 171</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ondb-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ondb_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ondb_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ondb_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kerlouégan, Gildas</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dumville1-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-dumville1_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dumville. The chronology of De Excidio Britanniae pp. 61–84</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kerlouégan, "Gildas"; Williams, "Gildas"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-The_Life_of_Gildas_by_the_Monk_of_Ruys-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-The_Life_of_Gildas_by_the_Monk_of_Ruys_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWilliams" class="citation web cs1">Williams, Hugh. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/gildas07.html">"The Life of Gildas by the Monk of Ruys"</a>. <i>Two Lives of Gildas by a monk of Ruys and Caradoc of Llancarfan</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 February</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Two+Lives+of+Gildas+by+a+monk+of+Ruys+and+Caradoc+of+Llancarfan&rft.atitle=The+Life+of+Gildas+by+Caradoc+of+Llancarfan+ca.+1130%E2%80%931150&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=Hugh&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryjones.us%2Fctexts%2Fgildas06.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-coflein-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-coflein_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/306840/details/">Maen Huail, St Peter's Square, Ruthin (ID NPRN306840)</a>. at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rcahmw.gov.uk/">Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Lambdin-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Lambdin_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lambdin_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6LBFCZY-ml8C&dq=Gildas&pg=PA1">Lambdin, Laura C. and Lambdin, Robert T., <i>Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia</i>, ABC-CLIO, 2008, p. 2</a><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780313346828" title="Special:BookSources/9780313346828">9780313346828</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-butler-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-butler_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/GILDAS.HTM">Butler, Rev. Alban, "The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints", Vol. I, D. & J. Sadlier, & Company, 1864</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHalsall2013" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Guy_Halsall" title="Guy Halsall">Halsall, Guy</a> (2013). <i>Worlds of Arthur: Facts & Fictions of the Dark Ages</i>. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 54. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-870084-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-870084-5"><bdi>978-0-19-870084-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Worlds+of+Arthur%3A+Facts+%26+Fictions+of+the+Dark+Ages&rft.place=Oxford%2C+UK&rft.pages=54&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-0-19-870084-5&rft.aulast=Halsall&rft.aufirst=Guy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">George, Karen, Gildas's De excidio Britonum and the early British church, Studies in Celtic History 26, Boydell Press, 2009, p. 125.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor_17-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor_17-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr_tresor_17-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr/tresor.php">"Pourmenadenn-e-ruiz - Promenade a Rhuys - Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys - l'Eglise - le Trésor"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Pourmenadenn-e-ruiz+-+Promenade+a+Rhuys+-+Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys+-+l%27Eglise+-+le+Tr%C3%A9sor&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpourmenadenn-e-ruiz.fr%2Ftresor.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDumville1984" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/David_Dumville" title="David Dumville">Dumville, David N.</a> (1984). "The Chronology of De Excidio Britanniae, Book 1". In Dumville, David; Lapidge, Michael (eds.). <i>Gildas: New Approaches</i>. Martlesham: Boydell Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85115-403-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-85115-403-9"><bdi>978-0-85115-403-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Chronology+of+De+Excidio+Britanniae%2C+Book+1&rft.btitle=Gildas%3A+New+Approaches&rft.place=Martlesham&rft.pub=Boydell+Press&rft.date=1984&rft.isbn=978-0-85115-403-9&rft.aulast=Dumville&rft.aufirst=David+N.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGiles1841" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/John_Allen_Giles" title="John Allen Giles">Giles, John Allen</a>, ed. (1841), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3R1mCE7p44MC"><i>The Works of Gildas and Nennius</i></a>, London: James Bohn</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Works+of+Gildas+and+Nennius&rft.place=London&rft.pub=James+Bohn&rft.date=1841&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3R1mCE7p44MC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span> — English translation</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGiles1847" class="citation cs2">Giles, John Allen, ed. (1847), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XX3TAAAAMAAJ"><i>History of the Ancient Britons</i></a>, vol. II (Second ed.), Oxford: W. Baxter (published 1854)</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+of+the+Ancient+Britons&rft.place=Oxford&rft.edition=Second&rft.pub=W.+Baxter&rft.date=1847&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DXX3TAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span> — in <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHigham1994" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/N._J._Higham" title="N. J. Higham">Higham, N. J.</a> (1994). <i>English Conquest: Gildas and Britain in the fifth century</i>. Manchester: Manchester United Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7190-4080-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7190-4080-1"><bdi>978-0-7190-4080-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=English+Conquest%3A+Gildas+and+Britain+in+the+fifth+century&rft.place=Manchester&rft.pub=Manchester+United+Press&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=978-0-7190-4080-1&rft.aulast=Higham&rft.aufirst=N.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKerlouégan2007" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Kerlouégan, François (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10718?docPos=1">"Gildas [St Gildas] (fl. 5th–6th cent.)"</a>. <i>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F10718">10.1093/ref:odnb/10718</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 March</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Gildas+%5BSt+Gildas%5D+%28fl.+5th%E2%80%936th+cent.%29&rft.btitle=Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2007&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F10718&rft.aulast=Kerlou%C3%A9gan&rft.aufirst=Fran%C3%A7ois&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxforddnb.com%2Fview%2Farticle%2F10718%3FdocPos%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public">UK public library membership</a> required)</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLloyd1911" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/John_Edward_Lloyd" title="John Edward Lloyd">Lloyd, John Edward</a> (1911), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NYwNAAAAIAAJ"><i>A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest</i></a>, vol. I (2nd ed.), London: Longmans, Green, and Co (published 1912)</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Wales+from+the+Earliest+Times+to+the+Edwardian+Conquest&rft.place=London&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Longmans%2C+Green%2C+and+Co&rft.date=1911&rft.aulast=Lloyd&rft.aufirst=John+Edward&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DNYwNAAAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Miller, Molly. "Bede's use of Gildas." <i>English Historical Review</i> (1975): 241–261. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/566923in">JSTOR</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSullivan1978" class="citation book cs1">Sullivan, Thomas D. (1978). <i>De excidio of Gildas: its authenticity and date</i>. New York: Brill. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-05793-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-05793-7"><bdi>978-90-04-05793-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=De+excidio+of+Gildas%3A+its+authenticity+and+date&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=1978&rft.isbn=978-90-04-05793-7&rft.aulast=Sullivan&rft.aufirst=Thomas+D.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams1991" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ann_Williams_(historian)" title="Ann Williams (historian)">Williams, Ann</a> (1991). "Gildas author fl. mid-sixth century". In Williams, Ann; Smyth, Alfred P.; Kirby, D. P. (eds.). <i>A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain</i>. Seaby. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85264-047-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-85264-047-7"><bdi>978-1-85264-047-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Gildas+author+fl.+mid-sixth+century&rft.btitle=A+Biographical+Dictionary+of+Dark+Age+Britain&rft.pub=Seaby&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=978-1-85264-047-7&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=Ann&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGildas" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Luca Larpi, <i>Prolegomena to a New Edition of Gildas Sapiens «De Excidio Britanniae»</i>, Firenze, Sismel – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2012 (<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societ%C3%A0_internazionale_per_lo_studio_del_Medioevo_latino" class="extiw" title="it:Società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo latino">it:Società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo latino</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Winterbottom_(academic)" title="Michael Winterbottom (academic)">Winterbottom, Michael</a> ed. and trans., (1978) <i>Gildas: The Ruin of Britain and Other Works</i>, Phillimore, Chichester</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gildas&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 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