Gildas
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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
Statue of Saint Gildas near the village of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys (Brittany).
The spring of St Gildas in Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, Morbihan
Battle of Badon
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The Battle of Badon, also known as the Battle of Mons Badonicus, was purportedly fought between Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Post-Roman Britain during the early 6th century. It was credited as a major
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…Arclid, near Sandbach in Cheshire, based on its plausible derivation from Arecluta. In his own work, he claims to have been born the same year as the Battle of Mount Badon. He was educated at a monastic centre, the College of St. Illtud, where he chose to forsake his royal heritage and embrace monasticism. He became a…
Liddington Castle site. The ramparts of the Iron Age hillfort can be seen at the highest point of the skyline.