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
Ambrosius Aurelianus
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Ambrosius Aurelianus was a war leader of the Romano-British who won an important battle against the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, according to Gildas. He also appeared independently in the legends
Gildas
…request for military aid from the departed Roman military. He excoriates his fellow Britons for their sins, while at the same time lauding heroes such as Ambrosius Aurelianus, whom he is the first to describe as a leader of the resistance to the Saxons. He mentions the victory at the Battle of Mons Badonicus, a feat attributed…
Illustration of Emrys Wledig from a 15th-century manuscript of Brut y Brenhinedd (the Historia Regum Britanniae translated into Welsh)