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  • GABHRANson of Dubhthach.
  • GABHRIN, GABRIN[Garpurey.] GABINIANUS, or GAVINIANUS, a
  • GABINIUS(8)—Feb. 19. <A presbyter, who was brother of Caius bishop of Rome, and father of a virgin and martyr named Susanna,
  • GABINUSa Donatist who returned to the communion of the church, but without undergoing re-baptism, an omission which Gaudentius
  • GABRIEL(1), in the Gnostic systems. In the system of Justrnus the name of one of the paternal angels (Hippol. v. 26, p. 151). I
  • GACHILOSOINDAqueen. [GALSUINTHA. ]
  • GADINUSbishop of Lyons. [Gopwinus.]
  • GADISCALDUSbishop of Huesca. The abbat Andebertus represents him at the 13th council of Toledo A.D. 683. (Aguirre-Catalani, iv. 28.
  • GAEIDHEAL(Gorpit, Ann. Ult. A.D. 775), abbat of Clonard, co. Meath, died s.D. 776. (Four Mast. aD. 771.) {J. G.]
  • GAFFEabbess of Gloucester. [EVA (2).] GAFFO, Welsh saint. [Carro.] GAIANAS, GAIANITAE. [Garanus (6).] GAIANUS, bishop of Jeru
  • GAIANUS(4), bishop of Naissus (Nissa), on the Morava, mentioned by Marcellinus in year 516. He died in exile at Constantinople.
  • GAIBALDUS, GAIBALTbishop of Ratis-
  • GAIBHREN, GAIBHREIN(Gasrin, GABHRIN), commemorated. June 24, identified by O'Clery (Mart. Doneg. by Todd and Reeves, 179) with Gabhrin or G
  • GAIDOALDUSsucceeded Euin as duke of Trent c. 595. After some discord with the Lombard king Agilulf, the cause of which is un- know
  • GAIDUALDUSduke of Brescia, father of Ranigunda the second wife of Romoald duke of Benevento (707-733). (Paulus Diaconus, vi. 182.)
  • GAIDULFUSLombard duke of Bergamo, He rebelled, ¢. 592, against thé Lombard king Agilulf, who made peace with him and received hos
  • GAIDUSduke of Vicenza, who according to Andreas Bergomas, together with Rotcausus duke
  • GAILA(1), daughter of Gisulf duke of Friuli, and sister of Grimoald afterwards king of the Lombards. (Paulus Diaconus, iv. 37
  • GAILBALDUS[Garra.pus (3).]
  • GAILESUINDAqueen.
  • GAIMDIBHLA(Garnp1patL), abbat of Aran, in Galway Bay, died a.p. 760. (Four Mast. A.D. 755; Colgan, Acta SS. 715, c. 7, calling him
  • GAINASa Goth who had taken service in the Roman armies, first mentioned as being appointed one of the commanders of the barbar
  • GAINDIBAILabbat. [Garmprpuua.]
  • GAIRINUS(Girry, Gurr), ST., martyr, brother of Leodegarius (St. Léger). He took part with his brother in his contest with Ebroin
  • GAIRO(Garronus, GAYROINUS), abbat of Flavigny in Burgundy, and 31st bishop of Autun, between Moderennus and Hiddo. In the Chr
  • GAIROVALDUS([Garrvatpus.]
  • GAIUS(Basil. Menol. i. 166, Nov. 4), one of the 70. (Carus (4).] [C. H.]
  • GALACTION(Gaxarttivs), bishop of Melos, present at the second Nicene council, A.D. 787. (Mansi, xiii. 372; Le Quien, Oriens Chris
  • GALACTORIUSbishop of Beneharnum or Benarnum, now probably Lescar in Béarn. His signature is found to the canons of the council of A
  • GALANUSbishop of Emporias (Ampurias) from 592 onwards. He appears first as archipresbyter representing bishop Fructuosus at the
  • GALATIUSa man who was said to have been desired by Felix of Aptunga to deliver up the sacred books to the agents of persecution.
  • GALCONUS27th bishop of Soissons, between Macharius and Gobaldus or Caroboldusy probably in the first half of the 8th century. (G
  • GALDUSbishop of Evreux. [Gaupo (2).]
  • GALENUS, CLAUDIUSphysician, born A.D. 130 at Pergamus, flourished chiefly at Rome under the Antonines, and died in 200 or 201. For a full
  • GALERIUSemperor. (Garus GALERIUS VALERIUS MAXIMIANUS is the full name on his coinage: he is called Maximus in some Acts of Marty
  • GALINDOsupposed to be the original Spanish name of Prudentius bishop of Troyes, before he changed it on coming to live for his
  • GALINUS(Satvinus), 42nd bishop of Auch, succeeding Revelius and followed by Elisaeus about the close of the 8th century. (Gall.
  • GALLA(1), ST., May 8, one of many martyrs commemorated with St. Acacius or Agatius, a Roman soldier at Byzantium about 3038.
  • GALLANUSIrish saint. [Gretian (1).] GALLBRAN UA LINGAIN, scribe of
  • GALLIANUSbishop, subscribed the third
  • GALLICANUS(1), Roman duke and consul, martyr in Egypt, A.D. 362. The Bollandists (Acta SS. 25 Jun, v. 35-39) have a notice De
  • GALLICINUS, ST(Gatrirranus), sixth bishop of Bordeaux, between St. Amandus and Cyprianus in the latter half of the 5th century. He is
  • GALLIENUSP. LICINIUS, emperor. He was the son of the emperor Valerian, and was appointed by the senate coadjutor to his father ve
  • GALLINICUSpatriarch of Constantinople, [CALLINICUS (2).]
  • GALLIONUSa Maximianist bishop mentioned as being absent from the council of Cabarsussis, A.D. 393. (Aug. En. in Ps. 36, 20; Mon,
  • GALLITIANUSof Bordeaux. [GALticrNUus. ]
  • GALLIUS(Gattuws), thirteenth bishop of Arretium (Arezzo), c. A.D. 447. He succeeded Eusebius Il., and was succeeded by Benedict
  • GALLOMAGNUStwelfth bishop of Troyes, succeeding Ambrosius and followed by Agrecius, was present at the fourth council of Paris (A.D
  • GALLONIANUSbishop of Utica, in pro-consular Africa, present at the two synods at Carthage, A.D. 419. (Mansi, iv. 433, 438; Moreelli
  • GALLONISTUS(GALLtNostius, GALLIONisTUS, CALLONISTUS), bishop of Adria, present at the Lateran synod on Monothelism under pope Marti
  • GALLUS(1) CAESAR, son of Julius Constantius (youngest brother of Constantine the Great) and his first wife Galla, born A.D. 32
  • GALNUTIOSsaint. [WiNwALLvs.]
  • GALONICA, ST(Getonica, GALLENTA), the companion of St. Aquilina. They were at first employed to draw St. CHRISTOPHER from the faith,
  • GAMALIEL(1) L, also called GAMALIEL THE ELDER, RABBAN GAMALIEL, or simply GAMALIEL, son of the patriarch Simon I., grandson of H
  • GAMALINUSbishop of Perrha, in the
  • GAMALIUSDonatist- bishop, present at the council of Bagaia, or Vagaia, A.D. 394, at which he probably presided. (Aug. c. Crese.
  • GAMELBERTUS(Gamutpertus, AMALBERTUS, AMELBERTUS), parish priest in the' village of Fagetum or Michelsbuch in Lower Bavaria. The Bol
  • GANDERICUS(Canpericus, GAUDERICUS, GaupRicus), thirty-fifth bishop of Lyons, succeeding Theodoricus, or Tetricus, and followed by
  • GANDO15th bishop of Strasburg, between Aldus and Uto I., according to Gall. Chr. v. 780. Wimpheling (Cat. Episc. Argent. p. 1
  • GANGULPHUSAfter Boso, who was bishop of Constance about A.D. 642, the history of
  • GARALTabbat. [GreRALpus.]
  • GARBHAN(GarBAN, GARUAN, GARVAN). (1) In the Life of St. Barry Garbhan son of Finnbarr is named among his pupils at Lough Irce.
  • GARCIson of Cewydd ab Caw, a Welsh saint of the 6th century, said to have had a church in Glamorganshire dedicated to him. (R
  • GARDINGUSbishop of Tuy, one of the Arian bishops who embraced Catholicism at the famous third council of Toledo, A.p. 589. The si
  • GARGILIUS(1), Numidian bishop, addressed
  • GARIARIUS(Gartacous), about twenty-second bishop of Angers, between Godobertus and Boso, perhaps about the middle of the 7th cent
  • GARIBALDUS(1), son of Grimoald king of the Lombards, by the sister of king Godebert, whom he had ejected. Garibald, while a boy, w
  • GARIPALDduke of Turin, sent by Godebert (joint king of the Lombards with his brother, Perthari, in 661) to obtain help against h
  • GARISIGIUS(Canrisieius, CARIGISILUS), twenty-eighth bishop of Tours, succeeding Latinus, and followed by Chrotbertus I. (cire. A.D
  • GARIVALDUS(Garrova.Lpus), twenty-eighth bishop of Clermont in the latter half of the 7th century, succeeding Felix. According to o
  • GARMONWelsh form of GERMANUS of
  • GAROINUS(Garoynus, GARRINUS, GARINUS, BAROINUS), eighth bishop of Strasburg, be- tween Magnus and Landbertus, apparently about t
  • GARTNAIDH, GARNAIT, GARTNAICH, GARTNAIT, GARTNAITH, GARTNART, GARTNAY(Garrrnaicn), son of Domelch or Domnach, succeeded Brude, the friend of St. Columba, on the Pictish throne, in the year
  • GATIANUSsaid by Gregory of Tours (Hist. Franc. 23 and 526) to have been sent by the see of Rome in the first year of Decius to G
  • GATSA-KELEBthe name of a monster, half a man and half a dog, who is said to have assisted SS. Andrew and Bartholomew in theit preac
  • GAUBALDUSof Ratisbon. [GARIBALDUS (8).] GAUCIOBERTUS, bishop. [GausBERTUs.]
  • GAUDELENUS(Gavup10Lanvs), bishop ot Lerida, A.D. 653. The deacon Suttericus represents him at the eighth Council of Toledo (653).
  • GAUDENCIUSbishop of Astigi. All our information about him is derived from a letter addressed by the bishops who attended the first
  • GAUDENTIANUSbishop of Volterra, probably in the time of Cunibert, 688-700. (Cap- pelletti, Le Chiese d' Italia, xviii. 215.)
  • GAUDENTIUS(1), bishop of Pisa, one of the judicial committee appointed to examine the case of Caecilianus at Rome, A.D. 313. (Opt.
  • GAUDERICUSof Lyons. [Ganpericus.] GAUDERICUS of Treves. [GunpEric (2).]
  • GAUDESTEUS(Gopesrevs, GUDESTHEUS), hishop of Orense from before A.D. 646, till about 650, present at the seventh council of Toledo
  • GAUDINUS, STtwenty-fifth bishop of Soissons, following St. Adolbertus, and succeeded
  • GAUDIOLANUS([GavpELENvs.]
  • GAUDIOSAthe queen of the famous Pelaye the first king of Asturias (Seb. Sal. cap. 11 apud Esp. Sagr. xiii.). She was buried wit!
  • GAUDIOSUS(1), bishop of Abitina, in pre consular Africa, said to have been banished b Genseric c. A.D. 440, and to have died in e
  • GAUDO(1), twenty-fourth bishop of Orleans, succeeding Audo and followed by Sigobertus (cire, A.D. 668). (Gall. Christ. viii.
  • GAUFRIDUS([Gonrrrivvs.] GAUGERICUS of Treves. [Gunpertc (2).]
  • GAUGERICUS(Gry), fourth bishop of Cambray, succeeding St. Vedulfus and followed by St. Berthoaldus (cure. 580-619), was born at Yv
  • GAUSBERTUSof Angers. [GODOBERTUS. ]
  • GAUSOLINUSof Metz. ([GossEL1Nvs.]
  • GAUSUALDUSbishop of Como, c. 741, (Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia, xi. 319; Ughelli, Ital. Sacr. v. 263.) [A. H. D. A.]
  • GAUTCERIUStwenty-fifth bishop of Troyes, succeeding Aldobertus and followed by Arduinus, about the beginning of the 8th century. H
  • GAUTUSbishop of Neelon in Arabia. The situation of this town is obscure, the only mention of it being in the record of the six
  • GAUZIOLENUS(Goscrinus), seventeenth bishop of Le Mans. After the death of his predecessor, Herlemundus I., the see was vacant sever
  • GAVIDIUSThe name occurs among the subscriptions to the council of Ariminum, 359. His see is not given, but it was probably Narbo
  • GAVIENUSforty-second bishop of Tours, succeeding Ostaldus, and followed by Erlingus. His name does not appear in the old cataloz
  • GAVINIAabbess of the monastery of St. Gavinus and St. Luxurius in Sardinia, according to Gregory the Great, who writes about he
  • GAVINUS(1), Donatist bishop of Vegesela, a small town of Numidia, present at Carth. Conf. A.D. 411. (Mon. Vet. Don. pp. 421, 43
  • GAYROINUS[Garro.]
  • GEANBERHT(Kemble, Cod. Dip. No. 144, A.D. 781), archbishop. [JAENBERT.] ([C. H.]
  • GEBAUDUSor GEBAVULTUS. [GtsutDus. |
  • GEBMUNDthe eighth bishop of Rochester (M. H. B. 616). He was appointed by Theodore archbishop of Canterbury to succeed Cuichelm
  • GEDALIUSbishop of Hospitia in Numidia, banished by Hunneric, a.pD. 484. (Victor Vit. Notit. 57; Morcelli, Afr. Christ. i. 188.)
  • GEDEON, STthirty-seventh bishop of Besancon, succeeding Hervaeus and followed by Bernoinus, about the close of the 8th century: Th
  • GEDUDUSor Geputus, Donatist bishop of Utica, present at Carth. Conf. a.p, 411. (Mon. Vet. Don. pp. 128, 187, ed. Oberthiir.)
  • GEFELclerical witness to a grant to bishop Grecielis of Llandaff, late in the 7th or early in the 8th century. (Lib. Landav.
  • GEGHIAof Inis Geghe, is mentioned in Vita 8. Farannani among those who came to salute St. Columba when he visited Ireland, but
  • GEGOBERGA, ST(SEGOBERGA, CAnCILIA, CLARA), second abbess of the double monastery of Habend, afterwards Remiremont or Romberg,
  • GELASIAa virgin eminent for her piety, praised by Palladius for never letting the sun go down upon her wrath either against her
  • GELASINUSmartyr at Heliopolis in Phoenicia, A.D. 297. He was acting as "secundus mimus" (Horat. lib. i. ep. 18) in a theatre full
  • GELASIUSSept. 29. [Grnxstus (10).]
  • GELESUINTHA([GatsuINTHA.]
  • GELIANUSbishop of Repera in Mauretania Caesariensis, banished by Hunneric, 484. (Victor. Vit. Notit. 59, Patr. Lat. lviii. 274 b
  • GELIMERthe last king of the Vandals in Africa, 530-534, as usually dated, though Clinton computes the commencement of his reign
  • GELIONIUS(Gitpertnvus, GEBDERINUS), said to have been twelfth bishop of Chalon-surSadne, succeeding Wadelinus, or, according to G
  • GEMELLUS(1)—Dec. 10. A native of Paphlagonia and martyr under Julian. Having heard that the emperor was at Ancyra in Galatia, he
  • GEMINIANUS(1)—Sept. 16 (Usuard.), Sept. 17 (Bas. Men.). Martyr at Rome under Diocletian and Maximian, with Lucia a widow. Her son
  • GEMINIUS(1) FAUSTINUS, presbyter o: Furni, A.D, 249 [Gemrnius Victor], probably the same as GrMINIUS, bishop at fourth council u
  • GEMINUS(1) (Gemrxranvs), presbyter of Antioch. Jerome in his Chronicle (where one reading is Germanus) places him under the yea
  • GEMMANUS(Germanvs). While St. Columba was a deacon, he is said to have been under the tuition of a Christian bard named Gemmanus
  • GEMMARDUSeighteenth bishop of Saint-Paul de Trois-Chateaux, following Salitonius and succeeded by Ingilbertus, perhaps towards th
  • GEMMULUSa deacon, afterwards an archdeacon, at Rome. Two letters are preserved from him to St. Boniface, of which the priest Den
  • GEMTHENNUSdisciple of St. Patrick. (Colgan, Tr. Thawm. 143, 183, 267.) [GEINTEN.] [J. GJ
  • GENBERHT(Kemble, C. D. 113), archbishop. [JAENBERT.] [C. H.J
  • GENEBAUDUS(Gunesatpus, GennoBAUDUS), ST., first bishop of Laon, established in the see by St. Remigius bishop of Rheims, the me
  • GENEBAUDUS ILseventeenth bishop of Laon, succeeding Madelanus and followed by Wanilo I. He is one of the bishops addressed in the twe
  • GENEBERNor GENEBRARD, martyr, friend of St. Dimpna. [GEREBERN.]
  • GENEBRARDUSbishop of Lauda (Lodi). He lived between A.D. 345 and 378. His predecessor was St. Dionysius, his successor St. Bassianu
  • GENEREUSa baker at Iona in the time of St. Columba, mentioned in the life of that saint by Adamnan. He has had a minor kind of i
  • GENEROSA(1), a Christian woman at Rome. [Faustinus (25).]
  • GENEROSUS(1), a Christian gentleman of Constantia (Cirta), to whom a Donatist presbyter wrote, at the command, he said, of an ang
  • GENESIUS(2)—Aug. 25. <A notary at Arles, and martyr A.D. 303. Originally a soldier, he then became registrar of the local cou
  • GENETHLIUS(1), bishop of Carthage, between Restitutus and Aurelius, from A.D. 374 to 391, according to Morcelli, who calls him Gen
  • GENETIVUSor GENETIUS, bishop of Tuy from about A.D. 670 to about 682. _ He subseribes the acts of C. Braga IIL, A.p. 675, as seni
  • GENEVEUS(Genevaevs), ST., 6th bishop of Dol in Brittany, succeeding Tigerinomalus, or, according to some, St. Budocus, and follo
  • GENEVIEVE[GeNovera.] t
  • GENGBERHT(Kemble, Cod. Dipl. No. 116), archbishop. [JAENBERT.] [C. H.]
  • GENGULPHUS, ST(Gancotrus, GrnGOUL), martyr, commemorated on May 11. He was a native of Varennes in Burgundy, where he was murdered, A.
  • GENIALIS(1), named in the diptychs of the church of Cavaillon as first bishop of that see. His date is fixed by the fact that hi
  • GENISTAEJustin Martyr (Zrypho, 80), speaking of Jewish sects, mentions as two of them, the Genistae and MerisTab. This notice wa
  • GENIUSbishop of Auch. [Eontus.]
  • GENNADIUS(1), bishop of Esbus (Heshbon) in Moab, present at the council of Nicaea, A.D. 325, (Mansi, ii. 694; Le Quien, Or. Chris
  • GENNARDUSthird abbat of St. Germ de Flaix in the diocese of Beauvais' [GER MARIUS]. He was previously vice-dominus the church of
  • GENOCUSfriend of St. Finnian of Clona: and probably the same as Mogenog, bishop Cill-dumha-gluinn. [Moeenoe.] (Colgan, Ac SS. 1
  • GENOVEFA(GENEVIEVE), patron saint Paris and of France. The story of her life, derived from the most ancient records, is follows
  • GENSERICking of the Vandals, the illegitimate son of Godigiselus, king of the Vandals, reigned for some time in Spain jointly wi
  • GENTENNUSpriest of Tirguaire (Colgan, Tr. Thawm. 180 n.°). (Gernren.] [J. G.]
  • GENTIANUStwenty-ninth bishop of Angers, succeeding Mauriolus and followed by St. Benedictus, about the close of the 8th century.
  • GENTILISbishop of Cubda, in proconsular Africa, was present at the council of Carthage, A.D. 646. (Mansi, x. 939; Morcelli, Afr.
  • GENULFUSis regarded as first bishop of Cahors. But the old lection which relates his preaching of the gospel in that part of the
  • GEORGIAN CHURCH, THE[Iserran CHURCH. |
  • GEORGIUS(1), bishop of Salona (Spalato) in Dalmatia, between Joannes I. and Theodorus I. He is supposed to have suffered martyrd
  • GEPPANaddressed together with Eoban, Tatwinus, Wigbert, ''and all our brothers and sisters," by St. Boniface in a short letter
  • GERADUSbishop of Bologna. [GERARDUS. ]
  • GERAINT[GeERonTIUSs.]
  • GERALDUS(1) (Garatr) of Mayo, abbat and bishop, March 13. A life of this saint taken from a MS. of the monastery of All Saints,
  • GERARDUS(1) (GeRontius), sixteenth bishop of Bologna, between Julianus I. and Theodorus I. The signature Laurentius Bobiensis oc
  • GERASIMUS(1), one of four bishops named in the inscription of an edict of the emperor Gratian, in which he defines the respective
  • GERBALDUSthirty-fourth or thirty-fifth bishop of Liége, between Agilfridus and Walcandus. In the Gesta Episcoporum Leodiensium of
  • GERBERTAdaughter of St. Gertrude abbess of Hamay and mother of St. Adalbald. (Mabillon, Acta SS. O.S.B. saec. ii. p. 941, ed. 16
  • GEREBERN(GENEBERN, GENEBRARD), martyr, commemorated May 15. He was an Irish priest, who baptized and instructed St. Dimpna (May
  • GEREBERTUSsixteenth bishop of Verdun, succeeding his uncle Gisloaldus, and followed by Armonius. Before his consecration he was ab
  • GEREBOLDUS, STthirteenth bishop of Bayeux, succeéding St. Ragnobertus, and followed by St. Framboldus, subscribed the council of Rouen
  • GEREINT([Gerarnt.]
  • GEREMARUSabbat of Flaviacum (St. Germer de Flay) in the district of Beauvais. He is said to have been born at the vill of Giviara
  • GEREONmartyr. [Lucio THEBABA.]
  • GERESINAis described by Dempster (Hist. Eccl. Gent, Scot. i. 312), as matron and queen of Sicily, a Scot by birth, sister of St.
  • GERETRANNUS, STeleventh bishop of Bayeux, succeeding Leudovaldus, and followed by St. Ragnobertus, at the close of the 6th century. He
  • GERFRID(1) (Gitrrepus, GILFRIDUS), said to have been twenty-second bishop of Laon, following Sigebaudus, and succeeded by Wanil
  • GERICUS(Gorricus.] : GERINUS. ([Garrrinvs.] GERIVALDUS, bishop. [Gartva.pvs.]
  • GERMANAvirgin martyr ; commemorated Oct. 1. The Bollandists (Acta SS. 1 Oct. i. 33-4) give her acts taken by Vignerius from thr
  • GERMANIANUSa bishop present at the council of Carthage, A.D. 412, against Pelagius and Celestius. (Aug. Zp. 175.) (EL W..P.))
  • GERMANICUS(2)—Jan. 19. A martyr in the flower of youth with the aged Polycarp at
  • GERMANIO(1), the thirty-second bishop of Jerusalem, who succeeded Pius at the end of the 2nd century. He was succeeded by Gordiu
  • GERMANUS(1), a bishop of some part or of Egypt, and for a time an adversary of St. Dionysius of Alexandria. In answer to his cal
  • GERMARUSabbat. [GeREMARUS.]
  • GERMERIUS, STMay 16, eighth in the list of the bishops of Toulouse, succeeding Heraclianus, and followed by Magnulfus, early in the 6
  • GERMINIUS(1), bishop of Cyzicus, the metropolis of the Hellespontine province, who was translated to Sirmium in Pannonia by the e
  • GERMOCHUS, STan Irish chief who
  • GEROCHsucceeded St. Willibald as bishop of Eichstiidt in A.D. 786. He is said to have given to his cathedral a golden chalice
  • GEROLDUSfortieth bishop of Mentz, succeeding Richbertus or Rigobertus, According to a quotation in the Gall. Christ. from Merssa
  • GERONCIUS(Tueroncivs), bishop of Assido (Medina Sidonia, or Xerze de la Fontera (Esp. Sagr. x. 15, Cortes y Lopez, Dice. Geogr. H
  • GERONTIUSSee also GERUNTIUS. GERONTIUS (1) (Leonrtvus), bishop of
  • GERRIGWelsh saint. [Grrric.]
  • GERTRUDIS(1), ST., first abbess of Nivelle in Brabant, daughter of Pippin of Landen, the first of the three Pippins, mayor of the
  • GERUNTIUSAmong the works attributed to St. Jerome is a letter addressed to the daughters of Geruntius. Their father had inse
  • GERVASIUS(2), given by Ughelli as the first known bishop of Barium (Bari), present at the council of Sardica, A.D. 347 (Ughelli,
  • GERVILIObishop. [GEwILIEBvs.] GERVOLDUS, sixteenth bishop of Evreux,
  • GERWYN, ST[Berwyn.] GERY. ([Gavcericvs.]
  • GESALIC(Gisauexrcvs), natural son of Alaric II. (Visigoth, king of southern Gaul and Spain from 485 to 507), and half brother,
  • GESSIUSan advocate, to whom Firmus, bishop of the Cappadocian Caesarea, wrote to comfort him on his brother, a military man, be
  • GESTIDIUSa friend of Paulinus of Nola, who addresses two letters to him. The first is partly in prose and partly in verse, and wa
  • GETAbishop of Elepea (Niebla) before 680. He subscribes the acts of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fifteenth councils of Toled
  • GETULICUS(1), a bishop calumniated and ill-treated by the Donatists, and even forced to perform on his knees an act of penance, (
  • GEWILIEB(Gewitios, GEOLEOBUS, GEWELIP, GERVILIO, GERVILIUS), forty-first bishop of Mentz, deposed at the second council of Germa
  • GIBERIUSbishop of Bigastrum from after 656 till before 673. He appears at the eighth and ninth councils of Toledo, a.p. 653, 655
  • GIBHRIANUS, GIBRIANUS(Grnirinvs, GyBRIAN), commemorated May 8. In the Lives of S. Tressan, 8, Gibhrian, S, Eloquius, and others, we have an a
  • GIBOALDUStenth bishop of Angouléme, in the early part of the 7th century. He is mentioned, though without his see, in the will of
  • GIBULDUS(Gesaupus, GEBAVULTUS), a king of the Alemanni, towards the close of the 5th century. In the Acta S. Lupi (Boll. Acta SS
  • GIGANTIUS(otherwise S1GANTIUS), a correspondent of Gregory Nazianzen. The wicked-
  • GIGUELArmorican prince. [JUDICABL.] GILA, bishop of Osma. [EGIL (1).] GILABERTUS of Geneva. [GuBERTUS.]
  • GILBERTUS(1)—June 24. Martyr with Agoadus, near Paris; they were, according to legend, converted by missionaries sent into Gaul b
  • GILDARDUS(1) (GitpArEpus, Goparpus), bishop of Rouen. A belief prevailed in the middle ages that he and St. Medardus were twin br
  • GILDAS(Gitpastus, Guiipus, GILLAS), commemorated January 29. A close and accurate account of Gildas is surrounded with diffi-
  • GILDASIUSabbat, hatowcaaene of a Samson and St. Paul. He came from Ireland to France in the reign of king Grallon, who built for
  • GILDEMIRUS(SuLpemirvs), bishop | Complutum, from before 681, He is representé by his vicar Annibonius at the twelfth Counc of Tole
  • GILDO(1), a presbyter appointed to succee Rufus as bishop of Lamzellum, in Numidia, bi not yet installed at the time of Carth
  • GILES[Axrcivrvs.]
  • GILIMIRThis is the name, according 1 Villanueva (Viage Litterario, xiii. 6), of tk bishop of Gerona, otherwise known as Miro: w
  • GILLENUSis spoken of by the Scot annalists, Fordun, John Major, Camerarius, an Dempster as a Scot who lived in Gaul, an was a di
  • GILLES[Eerprvs.]
  • GILLUS(Getos), Aug. 30, martyr : Ancyra with six others. (Wright, Syrian Mar in Journ. Sac. Lit. 1866, 429.) [Geass
  • GILULFUS(Eerutrvs), bishop of Ast (Asti), c. A.D. 813. It is said that the archiv: of his cathedral were burnt A.D. 820. His su
  • GIOVANNICIUS(Joannictus.]
  • GIRALDUSof Velitrae. GIRIOCUS. [Gorrrcus.]
  • GIRRIG(Grerric, Gwria,), patron of Llangirrig or Llangwrig, in Montgomeryshire. The more common form of his name is Curig or C
  • GISAdaughter of Grimoald king of the Lombards. She was given by her brother Romuald, duke of Benevento, as a hostage to the
  • GISALEICUSVisigoth king.
  • GISELHERE, GISELHERUSthe seventh bishop of the South Saxons at Selsey (IZ. H. B. 618). His date, as ascertained by charters, falls between 77
  • GISELPERTUSduke of Verona in the time of Paulus Diaconus. He opened and rifled the grave of king Alboin. (Paulus Diaconus, ii. 28.)
  • GISELTRUDAsister of Anselm the first abbat of the monastery of Nonantula, and wife of Aistulph king of the Lombards, 749-756.
  • GISIBARIUSa priest, Scot, disciple and associate of St. Rudbert, or Rupert. He wrote Ad Boiarios Homiliae, and flourished about A.
  • GISILARIUSpriest.
  • GISIUSbishop of Mutina (Modena), succeeded Geminianus IV. c. A.D. 796, and died probably A.p. 811 or 812. His successor was De
  • GISLA(1) (Gisma, GisLana), daughter of Pippin and only sister of Charles the Great, born A.D. 757. The robes in which she iss
  • GISLARIUS(Gismarius, GizoLartus), presbyter of Salzburg about the middle of the 8th century, a companion of St. Hildulph, St. Rud
  • GISLEBERTUS(Gitpertvs), thirty-third bishop of Noyon and Tournay, between Dido, or Dodo, and Pleon. He was educated in the monaster
  • GISLENUS(Gumain, GuisLery), ST., founder and first abbat of the monastery of Cella, afterwards St. Guislain, in the 7th century.
  • GISLHERE(Kemble, Cod. Dipl. No. 143, A.D. 781), bishop of Selsey. [GISELHERE. ] GISLOALDUS, fifteenth bishop of Verdun, succeedi
  • GISO(1) (Guiso), 15th archbishop of Cologne,
  • GISOLAdaughter of Charles the Great. (GisLA.]
  • GISTLIANUS(GistIL1Anvs, GIUSTILIANUS, GUISTLIANUS, GWESLAN), bishop at Menevia before St. David his nephew, and son of Gynyr of Ca
  • GISULFUSfirst duke of Friuli, and the first Lombard duke appointed upon the invasion of Italy by Alboin in 569, The district was
  • GISULPHUSbishop of Chiusi (Clusium), appeared apparently to act as judge upon Ausfredus bishop of Siena, mentioned in a letter of
  • GISVALDUSconfessor, companion, and disciple of St. Dysibod, accompanied his master to Belgium, and flourished a.p. 664, but Demps
  • GIULFUS(Brvtrvs), ninth bishop of Strasburg, said to have ruled in the 7th century. (Gall. Christ. v. 779; Potthast, Biblioth.
  • GIUSTILIANUS([Gistii1anvs.]
  • GIVERICUS(Grverrnvs), bishop of Mentesa (nr. Jaen), before 646. He sent a deacon, Ambrosius, to represent him at the seventh Coun
  • GIZOLARIUSpriest.
  • GLADUSAWelsh saint.
  • GLAINDIUBAIR(Gtarnpisur, Ann. Ult. A.D. 766), abbat of Laraghbrine, co. Kildare, died A.D. 767. (Four Mast., by O'Donovan, A.p. 762,
  • GLAPHYRAvirgin, of Amasea, Jan. 13. She appears to have been in Licinius's household at Nicomedia, and afterwards at Amasea, whe
  • GLAUCIASan alleged interpreter (Epunvets) of St. Peter, who was claimed as the instructor of BastLipes. (Clem. Al. Strom. vii. 1
  • GLAUCUSbishop of Alii (Alin, is Phrygia Pacatiana, present at the fifth general council, A.D. 553. (Mansi, ix. 393; Le Quien, O
  • GLEWISlay witness to a grant by Erb, king of Gwent and Ergyng, to St. Dubricius and the see of Llandaff (ZLib. Landav. by Rees
  • GLIN-MAURi.e. magni-genu, surname "of Eata of Northumbria. [Eata (3).] (Hist. Nennii in M. H. B. 75 8B.) (C. H.]
  • GLIUUSUS, GLIVISSIUS, GLIVISUSWelsh chieftain, the father of Gwynllyw Filwr (Rees, Cambro-Brit. Saints, 145; Hardy, Descript. Cat. i. 87, 88). [GLYwys
  • GLODWYclerical witness to grant of Caer Riou, near Monmouth, by king Athrwys, son of Ffernwael, to bishop Cadwared (Catgwarett
  • GLORINUSbishop of Junce, in Mauretania Caesariensis, and supposed to have been primate of that province, was banished by Hunneri
  • GLORIOSUS(1), Donatist bishop of Migispa, or Migirpa, in proconsular Africa, at Carth. Conf, A.D. 411. (Mon. Vet. Don, 126.) [H.
  • GLORIUSa person to whom, in conjunction with Eleusius and Felix, St. Augustine addressed two letters. In the first of them the
  • GLOWYBWYclerical witness to a grant by king Rhys, son of Ithael, to bishop Cadyvared (Catgwaret) and the see of Llandaff in the
  • GLUIGIUSWelsh chieftain. [GLYwys (2).]
  • GLUNSALACHson of Costamhail. O'Clery suggests that this saint, who was of the race of Trial, son of Conall Cearnach, and lived at
  • GLUVIAS(Guuvranvs or Guuvracus), ST., the saint of a parish which includes Penryn, in Falmouth harbour. It is possible that the
  • GLYCERIAmartyr with Anna and Theodato ; commemorated on Oct. 22. They embraced the Christian faith on witnessing the sufferings
  • GLYCERIUS(1), April 23. Martyr with Donatus and Therinus in A.D. 303. (Acta SS. Boll, April. iii. 164.) (G. T. S.J
  • GLYCONbishop of Caesarea, in Palestine. His name appears in the catalogue of bishops who accepted the decision of the council
  • GLYWYS(1) Cerniw, son of Gwynllyw Filwr, and founder of a church at Coed Cerniw, now Coedkernew, co. Monmouth, in the 6th cent
  • GNATHNAT(Gnatwap), called abbess of Kildare in Four Masters, and abbat by Tigernach, died A.D. 690. (Ann. Tig. eod. an.; Four Ma
  • GNAVANdisciple of St. Cadoc, probably a
  • GNOSIMACHI(fvwoiudxor). A sect who are said to have opposed all scientific theology (radon yvooe xpioriavicwod) on the plea that n
  • GNOSISone of the mythical beings who, in the Barbelite system described by Irenaeus (i. 29, p. 108), answer to the Valentinian
  • GNOSTICISMThe zeal with which a learner commences the study of ecclesiastical history is not unfrequently damped at an early stage
  • GNOUANabbat of the altar of St. Cadoc at Llancarvan, and witness to the restoration of Abermenei by king Ithael to bishop Bert
  • GOALDUS([Eoatpus.] GOAR, Irish saint. [GuAIRE.]
  • GOAR, STa priest of Aquitaine, who settled on the Rhine, where the town now stands which bears his name, in the 6th century. His
  • GOBALDUS(Gerosotpvs), twenty-eighth bishop of Soissons, succeeding Galconus, and followed by Hubertus or Gerabertus, probably a
  • GOBBAN(Gosatn, GoBAN, GOBHAN), a common name among the ancient Irish, and a form evidently of the Irish Gobha, a smith, and of
  • GOBBONETabbess. [(Gopnarrt.]
  • GOBHAN([Gopzan.]
  • GOBNAIT(Gossonet, GoBINET, GoBNAT, BNATA, GOBNET, GOPNAT), Virgin, commemo-
  • GODThe first struggle in which Christians were engaged when they entered on the work of preaching the gospel to " the Genti
  • GODAa deacon who attests the act of archbishop Wulfred dated at Canterbury, April 21, 811. (Kemble, C. D. 195.) [S.]
  • GODALSADUSthirty-eighth bishop of Chartres, succeeding Flavinus and followed by Bernoinus, perhaps towards the close of the 8th ce
  • GODARDUSbishop of Rouen. [GiLDARDUS. ] GODEARDUS of Mainz.
  • GODEBERTAvirgin, of Noyon; commemorated April 11. Vita S. Godebertae Virg. auctore, ut videtur, Ratbodo Episcopo, ex MS. Cathedra
  • GODEBERTUSof Chartres. [GausBerRtus. ] GODEBERTUS, king. [Gopepertvs.] GODEFRIDUS. [Guntrripus.]
  • GODEGISELUSone of the four sons of Gundeuchus, the second king of the Burgundians who died about a.p. 470. If we may believe the un
  • GODELBERTUSaccording to Trithemius, author of an elegant poem in heroics upon the histories and allegories of Scripture entitled Al
  • GODEMAR(Gopomak, French Sabai the younger son of Gundobald, and sixth and last king of the Burgundians. His elder brother, Sigi
  • GODEPERTUS(GopEBERTUS, GONDEBERTus), left in 661, on the death of his father king Aripert, to divide the Lombard kingdom with his
  • GODESCALCOUS(1), 34th archbishop of Sens, succeeding Wilharius and followed by St. Guntbertus (about A.D. 780). His place in the ser
  • GODESCALCUS(2), deacon of Liége, who wrote the Life of St. Lambert, a former bishop of that see, at the request of his bishop, Agil
  • GODLANWelsh bard. [GonyppaN.]
  • GODO(1), thirteenth bishop of Verdun, between Hermenfredus and St. Paulus. According to Flodoard, he was present at the coun
  • GODOBERTUS(Gavsert, RopoBERTUS), wenty-first bishop of Angers, succeeding Agliyertus or Niulphus and followed by Gariarius or, cco
  • GODOLSATIUS(Gopatsactus), a deposed ishop, with two others, Aldebertus a Gaul, and Jlemens a Scot, mentioned in a letter of pope Za
  • GODOMARking of the Burgundians, (GoDEMAR. ]
  • GODWINUS(Gupinvs, Gopinus, GAapINus), forty-second bishop of Lyons, between Lebuinus and Fulcoaldus. A few facts only of his lif
  • GOERICUS(Grricus, Gericus, GuERICUs), twenty-eighth archbishop of Sens, following St. Wulframnus, who resigned the see. He is sa
  • GOFENWelsh saint. (Coren, GOVEIN.]
  • GOGAUN(Gorean) is cited by Giraldus Cambrensis (tin. Kambr. ii. c. 1, wks. vi. 105) as one of the twenty-five bishops of St. D
  • GOGERINUSbishop of Beauvais, between Ribertus or Rigobertus and Anselinus or Anselmus I, His date may be about the middle of the
  • GOIBALCH, GOIBALDUS, GOWIBOLTbishop of Ratisbon. (Boll. Acta SS. 8 Jan. i. 546 a; Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxxix. 623.) [GARIBALDUS (3).] [J. G.]
  • GOIBHNENN(Gossan), of Tigh-Scuithin, commemorated May 23. In the Mart. Tallaght the entry at May 23 is "Gobani Mairgi o Tigh Scut
  • GOIDILabbat of Clonard. [GAEIDHEAL.] GOIMDIBLA, abbat. [GampIBHLA.]}
  • GOISVINTHA(GuNTHSUENTHA), married first to Athanagild, king of the Visigoths (554— 567), and secondly to his great successor, LEOV
  • GOLEUdaughter of Brychan of Brycheiniog, and mother of St. Kededr, in Llaniestyn (or Llaneskin), is mentioned in the Pedigree
  • GOLEUDDYDdaughter of Brychan of Brycheiniog, was at Llanhesgin (Llaneskin, Llaniestyn, Llanysgin) in Gwent, in the 5th century, a
  • GOLGUSmonk and disciple of St. Columba, is thought to have ruled a monastery among the Picts, A.D. 606, and to have written Mi
  • GOLINDUCH(Podavdotx, GoLANpuCcH), martyr in Persia in the reign of the emperor Maurice ; commemorated on July 12 (Bas. Men.),
  • GOLVENEUS(GoLVENAEtvS, GOLVENUS) is described by Dempster (Hist. Eccl. Gent. Scot. i. 317) as a Scotch hermit who left his own co
  • GOLYDDAN(Gopian, GotypHan), called bard of Cadwaladyr, and his date a.p. 560-630. The historical poem <Arymes Prydein Vawr (M
  • GOMAbishop of Lisbon, His signature is
  • GOMBERTUSof Sens. [GUNTBERTUS.]
  • GOMIDASpatriarch of Armenia (617-625), between John (called by Le Quien John the Orthodox, and by Saint-Martin John III.) and C
  • GOMMARIUS[Gummarvs.] GONDEBALD. ([GunpoBALp.]
  • GONDEBERTUS(GunrBertus, GUMBERTUS), ST., and martyr in the latter half of the 7th century, The earliest account of him is from Flod
  • GONDEMARking of the Burgundians. [GODEMAR. ]
  • GONDICAIREking of the Burgundians. (GuNDICARIUS. |
  • GONDIOCking of the Burgundians. [GuNDEUCHUS. |
  • GONDOALDUSeighteenth bishop of Meaux, following Baudowaldus and succeeded by St. Faro, or, according to one account by Waldebert (
  • GONDULFVUSthird bishop of Laon, between — Latro and Elinandus I. about the middle of the 6th century. (Gall. Christ. ix. 510.) [S.
  • GONDULPHUStwenty-third bishop of Maastricht, succeeding St. Monulphus and fol-
  • GONNARIUSa Sardinian bishop, ¢. A.D. 740. (Gams, Series Episc. p. 833.) [R. 8. G.]
  • GONOTIGERNUSbishop. [Hoprernvs.]
  • GONSALDUSbishop of Padua, c. 708. (Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia, x. 477 ; Ughelli, Ital. Sacr. v. 428.) [A. H. D. A.J
  • GONTAMUNDking of the Vandals. [GUNDAMUND. ]
  • GONTRANking of Orleans and Burgundy. [GuNTRAMNUS (2).] [S. A. B.]
  • GONTRAN BOSONduke of Austrasia. (GuNTRAMNUs Boso.]
  • GOPNATvirgin, commemorated Feb. 11. (Kal. Drum. in 'Bp. Forbes's Kal. Scott. Saints, 5.) [Gopnalr. | {J. GJ
  • GORDASking of the Heruli. [Grop.]
  • GORDIANUSThe reigns of the three Roman emperors who bore this name have little or no bearing on the history of the Christian
  • GORDIUS(1), the thirty-third bishop of Jerusalem at the close of the 2nd century; the successor of Germanio. During his episcop
  • GORGANreputed bishop of St. David's in the 8th century (Stubbs, Reg. Sacr. Angl. 155). [Gocaun.] (J. G.]
  • GORGONIAthe sister of Gregory Nazianzen, probably born before him, c. 326 (Tillemont, Mem. Eccles. Greg. Naz. note iii.). She wa
  • GORGONIUS(1)—Sept. 9. A chamberlain in the court of Diocletian, who was hanged at Nicomedia, with Dorotheus, at the beginning of
  • GORMANCeltic form of GERMANUS.
  • GORMGHALappears to have been an intruding bishop or abbat at Armagh, as the Four Mast., A.D, 794, say he succeeded Faindelach, a
  • GORNIAScalled also Gormas and GuorNIAS, and said to have baptized St. Patrick. He was a priest and blind, but received his sigh
  • GORTHENI(Lop@nvol), a sect mentioned by Hegesippus (Euseb. H. E. iv. 22); called Top@nwvol by Epiphanius (Ancorat, 12), and like
  • GORTHEUSheretic (Sophron. Zp. Syn. in
  • GORVYWWelsh saint. [Gwrryw.] GORWST, Welsh saint. [Grwst.]
  • GORWYSTreputed bishop of Menevia about the end of the 8th century (Stubbs, Req. Sacr. Angi. 155). (J. GJ
  • GOSACHUSof Granard. [Guasacut.]
  • GOSBERTUSthirty-second bishop of Geneva, between Lutherius and Walternus, or Gualternus. From a letter of pope Stephen III. writt
  • GOSCELINUS([GauzioLEeNvs.]
  • GOSOLDUSof Padua. [GonsaLpus.]
  • GOSPELS APOCRYPHALBesides our four canonical Gospels a large number of other writings circulated in early times containing either complete
  • GOSSELINUS(Gausottnus, AUSOLINUS), several other forms of the name are given by Potthast. He was bishop of Metz about A.p. 460. Hi
  • GOSVINTHAqueen. [GorsvintHa.}
  • GOSWINUS—May 22. A boy martyr at Rome in A.D. 176, supposed to have been of Teuton birth, led to Rome either through business or
  • GOTHARDUS._ (Gopearpus, BorHarpus, BuDIBARDUS), an early bishop of Mentz. He ruled for fifteen years, and was a successful missio
  • GOTHOBERTAvirgin, of Noyon. (Boll. Acta SS. 11 Apr. ii. 31 a.) Feet cmires @)
  • GOTHS, CONVERSION OF THEThe early Christianity of the Goths is a matter on which no very full light can be thrown. 1. The first conversions appe
  • GOTISPITAE[Corzupiraz (Vol. I. 733 a)]. GOTTESCHALK [Gopescaxcus].
  • GOTUMAR(Gurumarus), bishop of Tria Flavia (Santiago), from about 637 till after 646. He signed the sixth and seventh councils o
  • GOVEIN(Coren, Coven, GAWEN, GOFEN, GOVEINWEN), wife of Tewdrig and mother of Meurig, kings of South Wales, an early Welsh sain
  • GOVOR, GOWERWelsh saint, who founded Llanover in Monmouthshire. There are here nine springs close to each other called Fynnon Ovor.
  • GOWIBALDUS, GOWIBOLTbishop of Ratisbon. [GARIBALDUS (3).]
  • GRACCUSa Roman patrician, who held the office of urban praetor towards the close of
  • GRACExdpis, in the sense first given to that word in the New Testament, viz., the favour or free gift of the Holy Ghost purch
  • GRACIANUSof Cagli.
  • GRACILIANUSmartyr with the virgin
  • GRADA, STthe saint of a parish in the Lizard district in Cornwall. The parish feast is kept on the nearest Sunday to St. Luke's D
  • GRADESCUSbishop of Sulmo (Sulmona), c. A.D. 701. He appears to have succeeded St. Pamphilus, who was elected c. A.D. 682. (Ughell
  • GRADUSbishop. [Grartus (5).]
  • GRAECUSbishop of Marseilles, succeeded Eustasius about 472. He is known to us only from Sidonius Apollinaris, who addresses him
  • GRAIFNIG, GRAIPHNIDHabbat of Emlagh, near Kells, co. Meath, died a.p. 737 (Four Mast. a.D. 732; Ann. Ult. A.v. 736).
  • GRAMMATICUSaddressed along with
  • GRAMMATIUS(1), bishop of Salernum (Salerno), probably c. A.D. 400, though some authorities place him much later. He is said to hav
  • GRANIANUS, SERENIUSor SERENNIUS, proconsul of Asia in the reign of Hadrian. He wrote to the emperor in the year 125 for instructions as to
  • GRANISTAa Gothic comes, one of the heads of the first Arian conspiracy against Recared king of Spain, which broke out in 587, im
  • GRAPHANcompanion of Gobban, son of Nase, and disciple of Carthach Mochuda (Lanigan, fecl. Hist. Ir. ii. 358), but Colgan (Acta
  • GRAPTEprobably chief among the oe esses of the Roman church in the early part of the 2nd century. Hermas ( Vis. ii. 4) mention
  • GRASULFUSduke of Friuli early in the 7th century. He succeeded to the duchy on the murder by the exarch Gregory of his nephews Ta
  • GRATA(1)—June 2. [Lyons, Martyrs oFr.]
  • GRATIANUSfirst bishop of Tours. '[GaTIANUS. }
  • GRATIDIANUS(marg. GRATIDIUS, GRATIANUS), bishop of Cerasus, in Pontus, present at the council of Chalcedon, A.D. 451 (Mansi, vi. 57
  • GRATINIANUS(Boll. Acta SS. 1 Jun. i.
  • GRATINUSbishop of Egabro (Cabra), from A.D. 681 to 687, present at the thirteenth council of Toledo, A.D. 683. (Aguirre-Catalani
  • GRATIOSUS(1), thought to have been bishop of Numana or Humana (Umana), present at the council held at Rome by Gregory the Great,
  • GRATISMUSbishop of Tridentum (Trent), c. A.D. 499 to 538. (Pincio, Chron. di Trento, p- 61.) [R. S. G.]
  • GRATISSIMUSgrand chamberlain under the emperor Leo I. He founded at Constantinople a church dedicated to St. Cyriacus, with a monas
  • GRATUS(1), bishop of Carthage, a.p. 343- 353, in which see he succeeded Rufus, the successor of Caecilian. He was present at t
  • GRECIANUSof Callium. [GRaTIANUS (3).]
  • GRECIELIS(Grecretvs), bishop of Llandaff, in the time of Meurig son of Ithael, king of Glamorgan, late in the seventh or early in
  • GREDFIWWelsh saint. [RHEDIW.]
  • GREDIFAEL, GREDIFEL, GREDIVEL(CREDIFAEL, GREDEVEL), the founder of Penmynydd, in Anglesey. His festival is Nov. 13 (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 223). (Cc.
  • GREGENTIUS, STbishop of Taphar in Arabia (of the Homeritae). He is chiefly known as the supposed author of (a) the Leges Homeritarwm (
  • GREGORIA(1), 7th century, lady of the bedchamber to some Augusta who, from a comparison of dates (vid. Du Cange, Fam. Aug. 88),
  • GREGORIUS(1) I., bishop of Agrigentum. That there was a Gregory in this see earlier than the more celebrated writer is generally
  • GRELLAN(GALLAN, GREALLAN, GRILLAN, GRILLAAN), (1) the son of Rotan, commemorated April 15 (Mart. Doneg., Mart. Tall.). He has b
  • GRELLOG OEBLECHof Tamlacht Charna, commemorated July 13. O'Clery (Mart. Doneg. by Todd and Reeves, 195) says Grellog Oeblech, of Tamlac
  • GREPES(Ppérns, Malal.; paris, Theoph. ; Tpérns, Cedren; GrTHEs, Paul. Diac.), king of the Heruli, who came with his people to
  • GRICINUS(Cricrnus), bishop of Verona, c. A.D. 356-360. He seems to have been the seventh bishop, and to have succeeded Lucillus
  • GRIFFObishop of Aosta, [GRIPHO.]
  • GRILLAAN, GRILLAN[Greuvan (1).]
  • GRIMOtwenty-seventh archbishop of Rouen, succeeding Ratbertus (A.D. 743), after an interval of nine years, during which the s
  • GRIMOALDUS(1), son and successor of Pippin of Landen, mayor of the palace in Austrasia, who died 639. The office was not yet hered
  • GRIPHO(Griro, Gripro), third son of Charles Martel by Sonihilde or Swanahildis, the niece of Odilo, duke of Bavaria. Shortly b
  • GRIPPO(Gripno), twenty-third archbishop of Rouen, between St. Ansbertus and Radilandus. He is probably the "Gripho episcopus"
  • GRISTIOLUSWelsh saint. [Cristroxus.]
  • GRISUSbishop of Trevi (between Spoleto and Foligno), present at the Roman synod under Zacharias in 743. (Mansi, xii. 367; Hefe
  • GROD(Tpd6, Malal. ; TopSas, Cedren.), king of the Hunni who dwelt near the Cimmerian city of Bosporus. He came to Constantin
  • GROSSUSbishop of Siena, present at the Roman synod under Zacharias in 743. (Mansi, xii. 368; Hefele, § 364.) [A. H. D. A.J
  • GROTALDUS, ST(Crorotpus), fourth bishop of Worms, between Carolus and Amandus II, (circ. 503). The authors of the Gallia Christiana (
  • GRWST, ST(Gorusr, Gorwst), the founder of Llanrwst, in Denbigh. His festival has been held on Dec. 1. (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 295
  • GUADILAbishop of Emporias,
  • GUAGHINUSbishop of Volterra, c. 706. (Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia, xviii. 216; Ughelli, tal. Sacr. i. 1427.) [A. H. D. A.J
  • GUAIRE(Goar) (1), bishop in Gobhail, is not commemorated in the Mart. Doneg. but in the Mart. Tallaght on Jan. 25. Colgan (Tr.
  • GUALIFERUSwas a bishop, or at least used the episcopal title; he accompanied St, Rumbold, the Irish-Scot, to Mechlin, and partook
  • GUALTARIUS(GUALTERUS), bishop or Firmum (Fermo). <A "Gualterus episcopus de Firmo" is mentioned as having been present with oth
  • GUALTERANUS([GunrTERANUsS.]
  • GUALTERNUS(Watrernvs), bishop of Geneva, acceded c. A.D. 780, and died a.p. 816. He was present, A.D. 800, at the synod of bishops
  • GUANHUMARAthe wife of Arthur. Geoffry of Monmouth, ix. 9, says that after Arthur had restored the country to its former prosperity
  • GUARULFUStwenty-fifth bishop of Noyon, between Gunduinus and Framengerus. He was present at the translation of St. Lambert, in A.
  • GUASACHT(Gosacuus), bishop, son of Maelchu, in Granard, commemorated Jan. 24. In the Lives of St. Patrick Guasacht is frequently
  • GUBAthe seventh of the English abbats of Glastonbury, in the list drawn up by William of Malmesbury (ap. Gale, p. 328), who
  • GUDALUSAmother of St. Cadocus: more
  • GUDELINAqueen of Theodahadus or Theodatus king of Italy. Among the letters of
  • GUDIBRANDUSduke of Florence, the first certainly known, mentioned in a letter of
  • GUDINUSarchbishop of Lyons. [GopWINUS. ]
  • GUDLOCUShas his history sketched by Camerarius (de Scot. Fort. 129, April 11), who, however, gives no authority for his statemen
  • GUDUDUSbishop of Ancusa in Byzacene, present at Carth. Conf. a.p. 411. (Mon. Vet. Don. 126.) [H. W. P.J
  • GUDWALbishop of St. Malo. [Gurvatus.]
  • GUEDNERTH, GUIDNERTHking or chief of Glamorgan. [GWAEDNERTH. ]
  • GUENEGANDUSbishop. [GuENNoc.]
  • GUENGALOCUS, GUENNOLEArmorican saint, [WINWALLUS.]
  • GUENNINUS(GueEnnivs, Guinninvs), ST., an early bishop of Vannes, placed third in the list of the Gallia Christiana, succeeding St
  • GUENNOC(Conocanus, GUENEGANDUS, SvuENvus, VENECANDUS, VENERANDUs), ST., an early bishop of Quimper, succeeding St. Choren- 'tin
  • GUENOLEsaint. [Winwattvs.]
  • GUERICUS(Gorrctus), bishop of Ausa (Vich) from about a.p. 643 until after 653. His signature appears twenty-fifth among those of
  • GUERUR, STwhose chapel in the parish of St. Neot, in Cornwall, is mentioned by Asser as the place where Alfred, while visiting it
  • GUIBERTUSL., seventh bishop of Reate between Teuton and Isermundus I. ¢. A.D. 770. (Cappelletti, Le Chiese d' Ital. v. 300.)
  • GUIBERTUS IILthirteenth bishop of Reate, between Peter I. and Alefredus A.D. 780. His name and date are known from documents, in whic
  • GUIDO(1) (Vino), bishop of Volaterra (Vol-terra). He succeeded Martianus, c. A.D. 682, held the see sixteen years, and was su
  • GUIGNERmartyr in Cornwall. [Frngar.] GUIGNOLE, saint. [Wixwattvs.] GUILAIN, abbat of St. Guislain. [GisLenvs.]
  • GUILELMUS(Witetmvs), ST., duke or count of Aquitaine, founder and monk of the monastery of Gellone, afterwards called St. Guillel
  • GUILLERADUS(Winrretrapvs), bishop of Pistoria and Pratum (Pistoja and Prato), succeeded Joannes A.D. 801. He is mentioned as acting
  • GUILLOBOLDUS(W1LEBALpvs), twenty-ninth bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne, between Ricoarius and Boyo I. or Bono cir. 750. (Gall. Christ. i
  • GUIMILDUS(GummiLus). [GumiLpus.]
  • GUINALUS, GUINGALOE, GUINGALOEUS, GUINGALOISArmorican saint. [WINWALLUS. ]
  • GUINNINUSof Vannes. [GUENNINUS.]
  • GUINNIUS(Gunnurnvs, GUNUBUI), accompanied St. Padarn from Armorica to Llanbadarn (Rees, Cambro-Brit. Saints, 504 sq.), early in
  • GUINOCH, GUINOCHE, GUINOTHbishop and confessor ; a well-known Scotch saint, April 13. Dempster (//ist. Eccl. Gent. Scott. i, 306) thinks he was a
  • GUIPPERaccompanied St. Padarn from Armorica to Llanbadarn in Cardiganshire, in the 6th century (Rees, Cambro-Brit. Samts, 504
  • GUITELINstands in the lists of bishops at London and at Caer Leon, and Nennius numbers twelve years "a regno Guorthigerni usque
  • GULFARUS" magister militum," probably in the district of Istria, where there was a severance from Rome on the subject of the "Th
  • GULOSUSbishop of Beneventum, in Proconsular Africa, was banished to Corsica by Huneric after the convention at Carthage, A.D. 4
  • GUMBERTUS(1), ninth bishop of Térouanne between Adalgerus and Aetherius, in the first half of the 8th century. (Gall. Christ. x.
  • GUMESINDUSbishop of Toledo.
  • GUMILDUS(Gurm1tpvus, Gurinus,. WiMiLpus), third bishop of Maguelonne between Genesius and Vincentius. He was in -posséssion of t
  • GUMMARUS(Gommarius, GuNTMARUS), ST., founder of the monastery of Lira (Lier, Lierre), near Malines in Belgium, in the latter par
  • GUMPERGAniece of king Luitprand and wife of Romoald, who was duke of Benevento in 706. (Paulus Diaconus, vi. 50.)
  • GUNDAMUND(GuntTanunp, GUNTHAMUND), king of the Vandals, He was the son of Genzo, the son of Genseric, and succeeded his uncle Hun
  • GUNDEBALDking. [GuNDOBALD.] GUNDECAR, king. [GuNpicartvs.]
  • GUNDEGESILUStwelfth archbishop of Bordeaux. According "to Gregory of Tours,
  • GUNDELBERTUS, STsupposed archbishop of Sens, and founder and first abbat of the monastery of Senoniae (Senone) in the Vosges. His life,
  • GUNDEMARbishop of Viseo (of Gothic descent apparently), signs the disputed Decretum Gundemari (A.D. 610?). [GUNTHIMAR.] (Esp. Sa
  • GUNDERIC(1), son of Godegisilus king of the Vandals, succeeding him jointly with his illegitimate brother Genseric. According to
  • GUNDEUCHUS(Gunperic, GuNnprAcus, GuNpbiucus; French, GoNDIOc, GONDERIC), a king of the Burgundians, one of the two sons of Gundica
  • GUNDICARIUS(Gunriarivs, French, GONDICAIRE), the first of the Hendins, or chiefs, of the Burgundians who attained to royal power.
  • GUNDILANUS(Guapita), bishop of Emporias (Ampurias) before A.D. 683. " Segarius abbas" represents him at C. Tol. xiii., but he atte
  • GUNDIPERGAdaughter of Theodelinda, queen of the Lombards, and her second husband Agilulf. She married Arioald, who succeeded her b
  • GUNDLAEUS, GUNDLEUS, GUNDLIOUWelsh king. [GwyNLLyw.]
  • GUNDOALDUSbishop, [GonDoALDvs.]
  • GUNDOBALD(Gunponapus, GUNDOBAGAuDUS), fourth king of the Burgundians. His father, Gundeuchus, died about 470, leaving
  • GUNDOVALDUSsurnamed BALLomeR, or Pretender, was the son of a concubine of Clotaire I., though disowned by that monarch. By his moth
  • GUNDUINUStwenty-fourth bishop
  • GUNDULFUSbishop. [GonDULPHUS.]
  • GUNDULPHUSa supposed bishop of Milan, about the middle of the 6th century. (Boll. Acta SS. 17 Jun. 378.) [R. S. G.]
  • GUNDVALDUSson of Garipald, duke of Bavaria, accompanied to Italy his sister Theodelinda, who married first, king Autharis, and aft
  • GUNIBALDsaint.
  • GUNIFORTmartyr.
  • GUNLEUS, GUNLYN[Gwynttyrw.]
  • GUNNUINUS, GUNUBUI[Gurntvs.]
  • GUNTASIUSDonatist bishop of Benefa, or Benesa, in proconsular Africa, present at the Maximianist council of Cabarsussis, A.D. 393
  • GUNTBERTUS(Gomsertvs), thirty-fifth archbishop of Sens, succeeding Godescalcus and followed by Petrus I. (cire. 779-786). The auth
  • GUNTERANUS(or GuALTERANUS), c. 670, bishop of Siena. (Cappelletti, Le Chiese d' /talia, xvii. 374; Ughelli, Ztal. Sacr. iii. 528.)
  • GUNTFRIDUS(Goperripus, GAUFRIDUS) thirteenth bishop of Cambray, between Trauvardus, or Trawardus, and Albricus. He subscribed the
  • GUNTHAMUND[Gunpamunp.]
  • GUNTHIMAR(Gunpemar), king of Gothic Spain from Oct. 610 to Aug. 614. From the Hist. Gothorum only two facts are to be learnt of '
  • GUNTHRANNUS([Gunrramnvs.] GUNTHSUENTHA. [Gorsvinrua.] GUNTIARIUS, king. [Gunpicarivs.] GUNTMARUS of Lira. [Gummagus.]
  • GUNTRAMNUS(1) BOSO, a duke of the Austrasian Franks in the latter half of the 6th century, is a representative instance of the hig
  • GUNTRUTAdaughter of irs duke
  • GUODLOIU, GUODOLIJsuffragan bishop of Llandaff. [GWoDLOEW and GwyDDLON.]
  • GUOZBERTUSof Poitiers. [GAusBERTUS.]
  • GURAMthe first of the race of the Bagratides who ascended the throne of Georgia towards the end of the 6th century of our era
  • GUREBERTUSof Reate. [Gu1BERTUS.]
  • GURGENking of Georgia, about the time of the emperor Justinian. He was persecuted by the Persians on account of his faith. (Ma
  • GURHEIWelsh saint. [Gwruat.]
  • GURIASNov. 15 (Cal. Byz.); in the Armenian Calendar, Nov. 14; presbyter and martyr with another presbyter, Samonas or Shamuna,
  • GURMAET, STa companion of St. Teilo after his return from Brittany to Wales, and the saint of a church corresponding to Llandeilo'r
  • GURNERTH([Gwrverts.]
  • GURNIN(Guirminy), virgin, daughter of Cughaela or Conghail, is .commemorated in Mart. Doneg. and Mart. Tall. on Feb, 22, and i
  • GURNUEU(GuRNVEN, GuRVAN), bishop of Menevia about the beginning of the 9th century. (Giraldus Cambr. Jtin. Kambr. ii. c. i. wks
  • GURON, STa hermit, probably Irish, who had settled at Bodmin, in Cornwall, before the arrival of St. Petrock from Ireland. (Lelan
  • GURVALUS(Gupwat, GuRwAL), ST., said to have been one of the early bishops of St. Malo in the first half of the 7th century. (Gal
  • GURVANbishop of Menevia.
  • GUTARD(Gurrarpovs), the thirteenth abbat of St. Augustiue's, Canterbury, who ruled according to the Chronologia Augustinensis,
  • GUTHAGONcommemorated July 3; according to tradition a Scoto-Irish prince, who went with his sister Macra, and his servant or com
  • GUTHLAGO, STpresbyter and hermit of Crowland or Croyland (699-714). He is known 'through a Latin Life by Felix, whose information wa
  • GUTTARDUSabbat.
  • GUTTHEARDa Mercian abbat who attests a charter of 777 granted by Offa to Aldred the ealdorman of the Hwiccii (Kemble, C.D. 131; M
  • GUYNNAUO, GWYNNAWGWelsh saint. [GWYNNOG.]
  • GWAEDNERTH(GuEDNERTH, GuUIDNERTH), called king, in reality prince or chief- tain, of Glamorgan, in the 7th century. He killed his
  • GWALCHESnamed with Barruc, Baruch or Barrocus, as accompanying St. Cadoe from the island of Echni, now the Holmes, to the island
  • GWALCHMATson of Gwyar, one of the heroes of the Arthurian cycle, better known under the name of Gawaine, which comes from the Lat
  • GWALLONIRclerical witness to grants to he see of Llandaff, Trychan and Cadwared being he bishops. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 455-66.)
  • GWARDOGWY(Gworppoawy) (1), disciple f St. Dubricius, and clerical witness to grants o the see of Llandaff in the time of bishops
  • GWARHAFEU[Gwruarwy.] GWAROG, saint. [WINWALLUS.]
  • GWARTHANWelsh saint, son of Dunawd, Yunod or Dinothus, whom he assisted in estalishing the famous monastery or college at 3angor
  • GWAWRdaughter or granddaughter of 3Brychan of Brycheiniog, wife of Elidyr Lydinwyn, and mother of the celebrated bard, Llywar
  • GWAWRDDYDD(Gwenppypp), daughter f Brychan of Brycheiniog in the fifth century, wife of Cadell Deyrnllug, and ancestor of many Wels
  • GWDDINWelsh saint of the fifth century, yatron of Llanwddyn, on the borders of Montromeryshire and Denbighshire. (Rees, Welsh
  • GWEITHclerical witness to the grant of [relech, Monmouthshire, to bishop Trychan and the see of Llandaff, about the beginning
  • GWELVARCH[Gwyppuarcn.]
  • GWEN(1), wife of Brychan, Brachan, or frachan, and mother of St. Winwaloe, in Armorica, where she and her husband went from
  • GWENAFWY(Gwenavwy), Welsh saint, daughter of Caw, but without church dedication. (Rees, Welsh Saints, 230.) [J. G.
  • GWENANWelsh saint. [Gwynnoa.]
  • GWENASETHWelsh saint, daughter of Rhufon ab Cunedda Wledig, and wife of Pabo Post Prydain. (Rees, Welsh Saints, 111, 166 sq., 265
  • GWENDDYDDWelsh saint, supposed to be the same as Gwawrddydd (Rees, Welsh Saints, 149). [GwawRppybb.] [J. G.]
  • GWENDELINEWelsh saint. [Gwen (2).]
  • GWENDOLEU(Gwenppotav), son of Ceidio ab Garthwys, was educated with his brothers, Coy and Nudd, at St. Illtyd's College, Llantwit
  • GWENFAEN, STa daughter of Paul Hen, in the 6th century. She was the foundress of Rhoscolyn in Anglesey, anciently called Llanwenvaen
  • GWENFREWIWelsh saint. [Winerrep.]
  • GWENFYL, STa daughter or descendant of Brychan in the sixth century. She founded a chapel called Capel Gwenvyl, now extinct, subjec
  • GWENGADis associated with bishop Oudoceus, the abbats of Llancarvan, Dochou or Docunni, and Llanilltyd, and other clerics, as a
  • GWENGALEJclerical witness to a grant by king Rhys ab Ithael to bishop Cadwared (Catgwaret) and the see of Llandaff. (Lib, Landav.
  • GWENGARTHclerical witness to grants by Awst, king of Brecknock, to bishop Oudoceus and the see of Llandaff in the end of the 6th
  • GWENGENYWpriest, witnesses grants by two kings, Iddig and Cynan, to bishop Oudoceus and the see of Llandaff. (Lib. Landav. by Ree
  • GWENGOLLE, GWENHOLLE[WivWALLUS. ]
  • GWENLLIW,GWENLLIVgranddaughter of Brychan of Brycheiniog, by his daughter Corth, wife of Brynach Wyddel, but sometimes included among Bry
  • GWENLLWYFO, STwho gave name to Llanwenllwyfo in Anglesey in the 7th century. (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 307.) [C. W. B.]
  • GWENNAN, ST[Berwyy.]
  • GWENNY, GWEUNO, GWIGUOLEU, GWINGALAISsaint. [Wiywatus.]
  • GWENOGclerical witness of grants to bishop Berthgwyn, and the see of Llandaff, in the reign of Ithael ab Morgan, king of Glamo
  • GWENONWYdaughter of Meurig y Te drig, king of Morganawg and Ghent in the 6th century, was married to Gwyndaf Hén ab Emyr Llydaw,
  • GWENRIWdaughter of Brychan of Brycheiniog. (Rees, Cambro-Brit. Saints, 600.) (J. GJ GWENTEIRBRON, ST., the mother of St. Cadfan
  • GWENWORabbat of Langarthbenni, and witness to the grant of Lann Louden, in Ergyng, by Gwrgan, king of Ergyng, to bishop Lunapei
  • GWERNclerical witness to a grant of Mafurn by king Cynfyn ab Pebiau to bishop Aidan and the see of Llandaff, about the beginn
  • GWERNABWYdisciple of St. Dubricius, and clerical witness to grants to the see of Llandaff in the time of bishops Dubricius and Co
  • GWERYDD, STa Welsh saint of the 5th century, who founded the church of Llanwerydd in Glamorgan, which is now called St. Donats. (R.
  • GWESLANWelsh bishop. [GisrL1aNus.]
  • GWHARAFEU(Gwrarev), clerical witness to grants to the see of Llandaff, under bishops Trychan and Cadwared (Catgwaret), or more pr
  • GWLADUS(Gwiapis, GwLppys, GLADUSA, GULADUSA), called daughter, but more probably granddaughter of Brychan, of Brycheiniog, if n
  • GWLECEDclerical witness to grant of Merthyr Tecmed (probably Llandegwedd, co. Monmouth) to bishop Trychan and the see of Llanda
  • GWMYNdisciple of St. Dubricius at Hentland, co. Hereford, in the study of divine and human wisdom. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 324
  • GWNFYW(Gwnnrw), reader, clerical witness to grants to bishop Berthgwyn and the see of Llandaff. (ZLib. Landav. by Rees, 430-2,
  • GWNNOGWelsh saint. [Gwynnoa.] GWNNYW, reader. [Gwnryw.] —
  • GWODLOEW, GWODLOYW(Guoptoru, GUODOLOIN, GWYDDLON), son of Glywys Cerniw ab Gwynilyw Filwr, was first a teacher at St. Cadoe's school at Ll
  • GWORDOG(2), Disciple of St. Dubricius. 7WARDOGWY (1).] {[J. G.]
  • GWORFAN(GorrFay), disciple of St. Dubrius, and clerical witness to grant to St. Dubricius id the see of Landaff in the 5thcentu
  • GWORGAEDclerical witness to grant to shop Trychan and the see of Llandaff early the 7th century. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 4, 455.)
  • GWORGENEUclerical witness to the 'ant of Llewes, co. Radnor, to bishop Oudoceus 1d the see of Llandaff in the 5th century. (Lid.
  • GWORGYFIETHclerical witness to the 'ant of some villages to bishop Trychan, and e see of Llandaff early in the 7th century. ib. Lan
  • GWORMOIclerical witness to the grant of an Garth by king Iddon to bishop Teilo and e see of Llandaff. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 98
  • GWORWYDDclerical witness to grant of erthyr Clitawg (now Clodock, co. Hereford) to shop Berthgwyn and the see of Llandaff by hae
  • GWRAFEU, GWRAFWY[Gwruarwy.]}
  • GWRCEWIDclerical witness to grant to shop Berthgwyn and the see of Llandaff late in e 6th or early in the 7th century. (Lib. Lan
  • GWRDDELW, GWRDDYLYWelsh saint,
  • GWRFARWYof Lanneineon, clerical wit- *ss to grants of a number of churches by king thrwys to bishop Comereg and the see of janda
  • GWRFODWclerical witness to grants to shop Berthgwyn and the see of Llandaff. (Lib. andav. by Rees, 428, 442.) [J. G.]
  • GWRFWYclerical witness to the grant of ortheasseg, near Chepstow, to bishop Oudoceus \d the see of Llandaff. (Lib. Landav. by
  • GWRFYW(Gorrrw, Gorvyw, Gwrvyw), Welsh saint of the 6th century, son of Pasgen ab Urien Rheged, seems to have had a church dedi
  • GWRGI(1), clerical witness to a grant of the village of Bertus by Ithael, king of Glewyssig, to bishop Berthgwyn and the see
  • GWRGONdaughter of Brychan of Brycheiniog, and wife of Cadrod Calchfynydd, who flourished about A.D. 430. (Myv. Arch. ii. 44; R
  • GWRGYNUFclerical witness to grant of Is-pant by Cuchein ab Glywys to Gwyddlon (Guodloiu) and the see of Llandaff. (Lib. Landav.
  • GWRHAERKEJclerical witness to grant to bishop Trychan and the see of Llandaff, early in the 7th century. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 45
  • GWRHAFAL, GWRHAFARNabbat of Llanilltyd (Llantwit Major, co. Glamorgan) and witness to many grants to the see of Llandaff during the episcop
  • GWRHAFWY(Gwarnarev, Gworarwy, GWRAFEU, GWRAFWY), clerical witness to grants to the see of Llandaff under bishops Trychan and Cad
  • GWRHAI(1) (Gurner, Gwruer), Welsh saint early in the 6th century, son of Caw, and founder of the church of Penystrywad in Arwy
  • GWRHALclerical witness to grant of Lann Garth (probably Llanarth, co. Monmouth), by king Iddon to bishop Teilo and the see of
  • GWRHEIWelsh saint. [Gwruiat.]
  • GWRHIRthe bard of St. Teilo, was a saint of the college of St. Cattwg (Cadoc), who lived in the 6th century. He founded the ch
  • GWRHYDPENNLclerical witness to grants to bishop Comereg and the see of Llandaff. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 411-12.) [J. GJ
  • GWRINWelsh saint, founder of Llanwrin, co. Montgomery; he was son of Cynddilig ab Nwython ab Gildas, and belongs to the 6th c
  • GWRMAELWelsh saint of 4th century, son of Cadfrawd ab Cadfan. His feast day is unknown, and no church is known to have been ded
  • GWRMAETdisciple of SS. Dubricius and Teilo. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 351, 352.) Languruaet in Brecon belonged to the see of Lland
  • GWRNERTH, STa Welsh saint of the 6th century. A religious dialogue, in verse, between him and his father, Llewellyn of Welsh-pool, s
  • GWRONclerical witness to grant by Ffernwael, king of Glamorgan, " before the seniors of Gwent and Ergyng," to bishop Trychan
  • GWRTHAFARabbat of Llanilltyd (Llantwit Major, Glamorganshire), and witness to grant of Lann Oudocui (Llandogo, co. Monmouth?) by
  • GWRTHEVYR(surnamed VENDIGAID, the blessed) better known as Vortimer, son of Vortigern, who for a short time neaded the Britons on
  • GWRTHWL, STthe saint of ie caer in Brecknock, and Maesllanwrthwl, in Carmarthen, The saint's day is March 2. (R. Rees, Welsh Saints
  • GWRTRIclerical witness to grant by king 'Rhys ab Ithael of Glamorgan to bishop Cadwared (Catgwaret) and the see of Llandaff. (
  • GWRWAN(Gurvan). (1) Bishop of Llandaff or local suffragan at Ystrydyw, excommunicated Tewdwr ab Khun, king of Dyfed, for the p
  • GWRWARKEUpupil of Gwenwor (abbat o! Lanngarthbenni), was clerical witness to grants to the see of Llandaff under bishops Aidan an
  • GWRWEITH, GWRWIEITHclerical wit: ness to grants to the see of Llandaff under bishop: Berthgwyn and Trychan, late in the 6th or early inthe
  • GWTFILWelsh saint. [TaNGLwst.]
  • GWYARWelsh saint of the 7th century son of Helig Foel, and brother of two othe: Welsh saints, Brenda and Euryn. No feast-day
  • GWYDDELAN, STthe saint of Llanwyddelan in Montgomery, and of Dolwyddelax in Carnarvon in the 7th century. The saint': day is Aug. 22.
  • GWYDDELWWelsh saint. [GwyDDLEW.. GWYDDFARCH. [Gwyppvarcn.]
  • GWYDDLEW(GwyppeLw), Welsh saint o
  • GWYDDLONbishop. [Gwop.orw.] :
  • GWYDDONclerical witness to the grant o Cilpedec (now Kilpeck, Herefordshire) by Ffanw son of Benjamin, to bishop Grecielis and
  • GWYDDUARCHa member of the college f St. Cybi at Caergybi, in Anglesey, and son f Llywelyn of Welshpool (Williams, Zmin. Velsh, 204
  • GWYDDYLclerical witness to grants to the ee of Llandaff in the time of bishop Cadwared, robably in the beginning of the 9th cen
  • GWYLERIONclerical witness to the grant f the village of Bertus by Ithael, king of lamorgan, to bishop Berthgwyn and the see of Ja
  • GWYN(1), Welsh saint of the 6th century, ooooone of five sainted sons of Cynyr Farfdrwch, viz. Gwyn, Gwynno, Gwynnoro, Celyn
  • GWYNAUclassed as a son, but probably nly a descendant of Brychan of Brycheiniog ; he yas brother of Gwynws, but had no church
  • GWYNAWC, GWYNAWG, GWYNYAWGWelsh saint. [GwyNNoG.]
  • GWYNFWYcalled Master, was clerical fitness with three Welsh abbats and others to a rant made by Meurig, king of Glamorgan, to i
  • GWYNGADson of Caw (Jones, Welsh Bards, . 22), but not classed by Rees among the Welsh uints, as he followed a different list of
  • GWYNGAR, GWYNGAWRson of Gildas b Caw, and brother of SS. Gwynnog, Noethon, nd Tydecho. (Myv. Arch. ii. 44; Camb. Quart. fag. i. 30.) 'Gue
  • GWYNLLEU(GuyNLLEU, GwyNLLYw), son of Cyngar, of the race of Cunedda Wledig, and belonging to the 6th century ; he founded Nantgw
  • GWYNLLYW(GunDLevs, GunDLi0uU, GunLEUS, GUNLYN).
  • GWYNNIN, STthe patron saint of Llandygwynnin, in Carnarvon, is commemorated Dec. 31. (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 302.)
  • GWYNNOor GWYNNOG, ST., Welsh saint of the 6th century, patron saint of Llanwynno, a chapel under Llantrisaint, and of other
  • GWYNNOG(Guynnauc, GwnnoG, GwyNAWC, GWYNAWG, GWYNGAWR, GWYNNAWG, GWYNNO, GwyNNOC, GwyNoG, WyNNOG, and latinized Gwinocus, GwyNno
  • GWYNNOROWelsh saint. [Gwyn (1).]
  • GWYNODL, ST(GuennorpyL, GwynoEDYL), Welsh saint of the 6th century, the founder of Llangwyodl, in Carnarvon. His festival is Jan. 1
  • GWYNOGWelsh saint. [Gwynnoe].
  • GWYNWS, STthe saint of Llanwnws in Cardigan in the 5th century. His festival and that of his brother Gwynau is Dec. 13. (R. Rees,
  • GWYRAWMclerical witness to grant by king Athrwys of Glamorgan, to bishop Cadwared (Catgwaret), and the see of Llandaff (Lid. La
  • GWYTHELIN[Gorretin.] GWYTHENOC. [Wrnoc.]
  • GWYTHERIN8T., Welsh saint of the 6th century, the founder of a church called Gwytherin, in Denbigh, at which St. Winifred was aft
  • GWYTHIANUS, STgives name to a parish on the north coast of Cornwall. He was one of the Irish saints who came over with St. Breaca (Vol
  • GYBRIAN([Grpyeianvs.]
  • GYMNASIUSa bishop who at the council of the Oak was the first to propose the deposition of Chrysostom. (Photius, Cod. 59, p. 60.)
  • GYMNOPODAEthe name given by " Praedestinatus" (68) to the ExcaLceaTI of Phi- laster. [G. S.J
  • GYNFARWYWelsh saint. [Cynrarwy.]
  • GYNYRof Caer Gawch, originally chieftain of Pebidiog, or Dewsland, Pembrokeshire, and afterwards enrolled among the saints of
  • GYROINDUStwenty-sixth bishop of Clermont, between St. Genesius and Felix. About A.D. 659 he subscribed a charter of Emmo archbish
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