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| rdfs:comment | - Gildas was an enchanter who lived during the reign of Queen Regat Daughter of Llyr, a generation before the time of Taran and Eilonwy. File:Bald wizard.jpg This page contains spoilers. If you do not wish to be spoiled, do not read further.
- Full name Class Nationality First appearanceArrow's Flight (novel) Lord Gildas is a member of Selenay's Council, where he is Speaker for the South. He is described as "plump" and" soft-spoken." (Arrow's Fall)
- There are two extant Lives of Saint Gildas which barely agree on anything. This suggests to some that two entirely different figures of the period have been confused with one another.
- Saint Gildas (c. 516 – 570) was a 6th century British priest. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during the 6th century. His renowned learning and literary style earned him the designation Gildas Sapiens (Gildas the Wise). He was ordained in the Church, and in his works favoured the monastic ideal. Fragments of letters he wrote reveal that he composed a Rule for monastic life that was somewhat less austere than the Rule written by his contemporary, David of Wales, and set suitable penances for its breach. There are two known vitas of Gildas: the earlier written by a monk of Rhuys in Brittany, possibly in the 9th century, the second written by Caradoc of Llancarfan, a friend and contemporary of Geoffrey of Monmouth, composed in the middle o
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| abstract | - Gildas was an enchanter who lived during the reign of Queen Regat Daughter of Llyr, a generation before the time of Taran and Eilonwy. File:Bald wizard.jpg This page contains spoilers. If you do not wish to be spoiled, do not read further.
- Saint Gildas (c. 516 – 570) was a 6th century British priest. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during the 6th century. His renowned learning and literary style earned him the designation Gildas Sapiens (Gildas the Wise). He was ordained in the Church, and in his works favoured the monastic ideal. Fragments of letters he wrote reveal that he composed a Rule for monastic life that was somewhat less austere than the Rule written by his contemporary, David of Wales, and set suitable penances for its breach. There are two known vitas of Gildas: the earlier written by a monk of Rhuys in Brittany, possibly in the 9th century, the second written by Caradoc of Llancarfan, a friend and contemporary of Geoffrey of Monmouth, composed in the middle of the 12th century.
- Full name Class Nationality First appearanceArrow's Flight (novel) Lord Gildas is a member of Selenay's Council, where he is Speaker for the South. He is described as "plump" and" soft-spoken." (Arrow's Fall)
- There are two extant Lives of Saint Gildas which barely agree on anything. This suggests to some that two entirely different figures of the period have been confused with one another.
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