Nobis or Novis
Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales (; ; ; ) was a Cambro-Norman priest and historian. As a royal clerk to the king and two archbishops, he travelled widely and wrote extensively. He studied and taught in France and visited Rome several times, meeting the Pope. He ...
. '' Itinerarium Kambriae''
II.i.
Accessed 13 Feb 2013. (;
[Evans, John & al. ''St David of Wales: Cult, Church, and Nation'']
p. 299
Boydell Press, 2007. Accessed 13 Feb 2013. fl. c. 840) is traditionally considered to have been a
bishop of Meneva
The Bishop of St Davids is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of St Davids.
The succession of bishops stretches back to Saint David who in the 6th century established his seat in what is today the city of St Davids in ...
(modern
St Davids
St Davids or St David's (, , "David's house”) is a cathedral city in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It lies on the River Alun and is part of the community of St Davids and the Cathedral Close. It is the resting place of Saint David, Wales's ...
) in the
medieval Welsh
Middle Welsh (, ) is the label attached to the Welsh language of the 12th to 15th centuries, of which much more remains than for any earlier period. This form of Welsh developed directly from Old Welsh ().
Literature and history
Middle Welsh is ...
kingdom of Dyfed
The Kingdom of Dyfed (), one of several Welsh petty kingdoms that emerged in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain in southwest Wales, was based on the former territory of the Demetae (modern Welsh ''Dyfed''). The royal line was founded by Irish ...
.
The arrival of a bishop is noted by the
Annals of Wales, which Phillimore's reconstruction places in AD 840.
[Phillimore, Egerton. ''Y Cymmrodor'' 9 (1888), pp. 141–83. (]