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Gildas

6th-century British monk, writer and saint

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Also known as Gildas the Wise

Born: 500
Died: January 29, 570
Birthplace: Cheshire
, Kingdom of Strathclyde
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1.sscrmnl.edu.ph/st-gildas-the-wise/
2.earlybritishkingdoms.com/kids/gildas.html
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Place of death: Rhuys Peninsula
Citizenship: Kingdom of Strathclyde
Occupation: historian
, writer
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1.Stated in Mirabile: Digital Archives for Medieval Culture
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, missionary
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Positions held: abbot
Languages spoken, written or signed: Latin
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1.Stated in Mirabile: Digital Archives for Medieval Culture
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Gildas – also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw and Gildas Sapiens – was a 6th-century British monk best known for his religious polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during the sub-Roman period, and was renowned for his Biblical knowledge and literary style. In his later life, he emigrated to Brittany, where he founded a monastery known as Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys.

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Abbatiale de Saint-Gildas-des-Bois1000 · church located in Loire-Atlantique, in France

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Sex or gender: male
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1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2025-08-29
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Canonization status: saint
Catholic saint
Given name: Gildas
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2015-08-12
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Child: Allgo
Saint Eigrad
Gwynog
Religion or worldview: Catholic Church
Feast day: January 29
Writing language: Latin
Copyright status as a creator: copyrights on works have expired applies to jurisdiction: worldwide
Student of: Illtud
Different from: Gildas the Albanian
Father: Caw

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