Gildas
Also: Gildas Sapiens, Gildas the Wise, Gildas Badonicus
Born perhaps between 450 and 516, by tradition in Arecluta (Strathclyde), now Clyde valley, Scotland. Died probably in 570, by tradition in Rhuys (now Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, France).
British churchman whose sermon against the kings and clergy of his day is the one British account of the fall of Roman Britain.
Wrote in Latin.
Places lived
No place is known. The page shows no place from guesswork.
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- On the Ruin of Britain, with letter fragmentsA sermon in the form of a history that blames the sins of the Britons for the Saxon conquest.60,059 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas : about 450-500 (D. Dumville: about 500); Gildas, On the Ruin of Britain 26: born in the year of the siege of Mount Badon
- Place of birth by tradition
- Life of Gildas by a monk of Rhuys (11th century); a region, not a town
- Died probable
- Annales Cambriae, year 570; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas
- Place of death by tradition
- Life of Gildas by a monk of Rhuys; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas