Nobis or Novis
[ Gerald of Wales. '' 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 (modern
St Davids) in the
medieval Welsh kingdom of Dyfed.
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. ( excerpt) ] Asser
Asser (; ; died 909) was a Welsh people, Welsh monk from St David's, Kingdom of Dyfed, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne (ancient), Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked by Alfred the Great to leave St David's and join ...
counts "Archbishop Nobis" as a relative and
Gerald of Wales and other sources later include him on their bishop lists for the see.
[ However, actual Latin of the Welsh annals read:
::''Nobis episcopus inminiu regnavit''
in the A text][ and
::''Nouus episcopatum suscepit''
in the B text. Either ''could'' describe the arrival of a bishop named "Nyfys",][ but the Latin can also be read directly as " Our bishop reigned in Meneva" () and "A new bishop arrived". Similarly, the Latin of Asser's '']Life of King Alfred
Asser (; ; died 909) was a Welsh people, Welsh monk from St David's, Kingdom of Dyfed, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne (ancient), Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked by Alfred the Great to leave St David's and join ...
'' could be rendered "our bishop, my relative". For the year 840, the Welsh Chronicle of the Princes ('' Brut y Tywysogion'') notes only that "The Bishop of Meneva died" but goes on to mention that "Einion, of Noble Descent, bishop of Meneva, died" in AD 871.[... ''Brut'']
p. 14
This Bishop Einion passes unmentioned in Gerald or sources derived from him.
References
Bishops of St Davids
9th-century Welsh bishops
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