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Gerald of Wales ( c. 1146 – c. 1223 ), also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh or Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, archdeacon of Brecon, was a medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times.
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Gerald of Wales relates how in 1182 the castle was seized back by the Welsh.
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Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald of Wales, speaking of the bows used by the Welsh men of Gwent, says: " They are made neither of horn, ash nor yew, but of elm ; ugly unfinished-looking weapons, but astonishingly stiff, large and strong, and equally capable of use for long or short shooting.
Gerald of Wales commented on the power of the Welsh longbow in the 12th century:
* Paget, Gerald ( 1977 ) The Lineage & Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.
Rhys gave Gerald and Archbishop Baldwin a great deal of assistance when they visited Wales to raise troops for the crusade in 1188, and Gerald several times refers to his " kindness " and says that Rhys accompanied them all the way from Cardigan to the northern border of Ceredigion " with a liberality peculiarly praiseworthy in so illustrious a prince ".
St David's Metropolitan Status as an archbishopric was later supported by Bernard, Bishop of St David's, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gerald of Wales.
According to Gerald of Wales, the only witness to chronicle the expedition, it is a disaster in which money is wasted on alcohol and the Irish chieftains are scorned into uniting against a common enemy.
Their nests had not been seen and it was believed that they grew by transformations of goose barnacles, an idea that became prevalent from around the 11th century and noted by Bishop Giraldus Cambrensis ( Gerald of Wales ) in Topographia Hiberniae ( 1187 ).
Forty years after these events, the scholar, Gerald of Wales, in a rare quote from these times, wrote what Owain Gwynedd said to his troops on the eve of battle:
1146 at Manorbier Castle in Pembrokeshire, Wales, he was of mixed Norman and Welsh descent ; he is also known as Gerald de Barri.
Manorbier Castle, birthplace of Gerald of Wales
Gerald was son of William FitzOdo de Barry ( or Barri ), the common ancestor of the Barry family in Ireland and one of the most powerful Anglo-Norman barons in Wales at that time.
Having thus demonstrated his usefulness, Gerald was selected to accompany the Archbishop of Canterbury, Baldwin of Forde, on a tour of Wales in 1188, the object being a recruitment campaign for the Third Crusade.
Gerald returned, and his cause was now supported by the Princes of Wales, most notably Llywelyn the Great, and Gruffydd ap Rhys II, while King John, frequently in conflict with the Welsh, warmly espoused the cause of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
After this long struggle, the chapter of St. David's deserted Gerald, and having been obliged to leave Wales, he fled to Rome.
Gerald maintained that fear of the effect that his appointment would have on the national politics in Wales had prevented his appointment.
Gerald spent the remainder of his life in academic study, most likely in Lincoln, producing works of devotional instruction and politics, and revising the works on Ireland and Wales he had written earlier in his life.
Finally, in Descriptio Cambriae, Gerald penned the following words that give so much pride to Welsh singers of today, especially those who participate in the immensely popular Cymanfaoedd Canu ( hymn-singing festivals ) held throughout Wales and North America:
* Gerald of Wales was 4th in the series of 8 by Nicholas Crane in Great British Journeys
James Goldman's novel Myself As Witness is written from Gerald of Wales ' point of view, though in the novel he is referred to as Giraldus Cambrensis.
* Gerald of Wales, The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales tr.
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The earliest is by Gerald in " Liber de Principis instructione " c. 1193, and he says he saw the cross, and it read: " Here lies buried the famous King Arthur with Guinevere his second wife in the isle of Avalon ".
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* Gerald of Wales ( c. 1146 – c.
The Welsh method of warfare during the reign of Henry II is described by Gerald of Wales in his work Descriptio Cambriae written c. 1190 ;
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Geertgen tot Sint Jans ( c. 1465 – c. 1495 ), also known as Geertgen van Haarlem, Gerrit van Haarlem, Gerrit Gerritsz, Gheertgen, Geerrit, Gheerrit, or any other diminutive form of Gerald, was an Early Netherlandish painter from the northern Low Countries in the Holy Roman Empire.
Gerald W. Schwartz, OC born c. 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian businessman.
* Robert Bartlett, Gerald of Wales ( c. 1146 – 1223 ), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford ( 2004 ) — accessed 31 Oct 2004.
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Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond ( c. 1533 – 11 November 1583 ) was an Irish nobleman and leader of the Desmond Rebellions of 1579.
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Gerald of Aurillac ( or Saint Gerald ) ( c. 855 – c. 909 ) is a French saint of the Roman Catholic Church, also recognized by other religious denominations of Christianity.
The details of his life known today come primarily from The Life of St. Gerald of Aurillac ( c. 930 – 931 ) written by Odo of Cluny.
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Gerald Fit Mason ( born c. January 26, 1934 ) is an American cop killer and rapist.
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His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
* 1920 – Gerald Bouey, Canadian civil servant, Governor of the Bank of Canada ( d. 2004 )
Although not officially announced, the original backup crew consisted of Fred Haise ( CDR ), William R. Pogue ( CMP ) and Gerald Carr ( LMP ) who were targeted for the prime crew assignment on Apollo 19.
* 1927 – Gerald Flood, British actor ( d. 1989 )
In the 1960s the work of the engineer Alexander Thom and that of the astronomer Gerald Hawkins, who proposed that Stonehenge was a Neolithic computer, inspired new interest in the astronomical features of ancient sites.
Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.
Gerald Finzi repeatedly began settings, though never finished any.
His voice and personality are similar to and may serve as a basis of sort for the character of Gerald Goode in Judge's latest animated series The Goode Family.
The notoriety of ape-men grew over the decade, culminating in 1958 when large footprints were found in Del Norte County, California, by bulldozer operator Gerald Crew.
It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph.
Although the history of the Big Apple was once thought a mystery, research over the past two decades, primarily by amateur etymologist Barry Popik and Gerald Cohen of Missouri University of Science and Technology, has provided a reasonably clear picture of the term's history.
The Big Apple was first popularized as a reference to New York City by John J. Fitz Gerald in a number of New York Morning Telegraph articles in the 1920s in reference to New York horse-racing.
Fitz Gerald referred to the " big apple " frequently thereafter.
By the late 1920s, New York writers other than Fitz Gerald were starting to use " Big Apple " and were using it outside of a horse-racing context.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1997 signed legislation designating the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald lived from 1934 to 1963, as " Big Apple Corner.
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