Giraldus Cambrensis

British  

/ dʒɪˈrældəs kæmˈbrɛnsɪs /

noun

1. literary name of Gerald de Barri. ?1146–?1223, Welsh chronicler and churchman, noted for his accounts of his travels in Ireland and Wales

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Prince John is sent over by his father as Lord of Ireland, accompanied by his tutor, Giraldus Cambrensis.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

This objection does not apply to Giraldus Cambrensis; his knowledge of Welsh was indeed slight—but he had plenty of Welsh-speaking relatives and friends, and he was himself a collector of manuscripts.

From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by Little, A. G. (Andrew George)

Exactly what Giraldus Cambrensis had foreseen and longed for.

From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by Little, A. G. (Andrew George)

Giraldus Cambrensis found the people of the western islands a trifle paganish.

From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

I remember me when I was a student in Paris, a Welsh clerk—he calls himself now Giraldus Cambrensis, but his name then was Gerald Barri,—had the room over mine, the year that Philip was born.

From In the Days of the Guild by Lamprey, Louise