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:

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.

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.

In 1188, Cambro-Norman chronicler Gerald of Wales wrote, " Ireland uses and delights in two instruments only, the harp namely, and the tympanum.

After having thoroughly read Pasteur's lab notes, the science historian Gerald L. Geison declared Pasteur had given a misleading account of the preparation of the anthrax vaccine used in the experiment at Pouilly-le-Fort.

Radio historian Gerald S. Nachman has noted the Jordans were ready to renew with NBC for at least three more years when Marian's battle against cancer ended in her death in 1961.

Most postwar writers, including Ron Roizen, the French historian Dr. Alain Cuenot, and the American investigator Gerald Schwab, maintain that Moro-Giafferi fabricated the story about a homosexual relationship with vom Rath after the murder, in order to assist in Grynszpan's defence.

Lincoln historian Gerald J. Prokopowicz has called this story a " fantasy ".

There is some controversy over the use of selectivity in Millikan's results of his second experiment measuring the electron charge raised by the historian Gerald Holton.

The summer of 1924 saw Spare produce a sketchbook of " automatic drawings " titled The Book of Ugly Ectasy, which contained a series of grotesque creatures ; the sole copy of the book would be purchased by the art historian Gerald Reitlinger.

* Gerald W. Wolff, historian of the American West and Indians

* Gerald W. Wolff, historian

Film historian Gerald Pratley claims that by this point, the NFB was " an almost-forgotten institution " due to " the stupor that had overtaken it.

According to British historian Gerald Brenan, " Spain needed radical reforms and he could only govern by the permission of the two most reactionary forces in the country — the Army and the Church.

" In perhaps a further illumination of the ego that Godfrey had formerly kept hidden, radio historian Gerald Nachman, in Raised on Radio, claims that what really miffed Godfrey about his now-former protege was that LaRosa's fan mail had come to outnumber Godfrey's.

As NDP strategist and historian Gerald Caplan put it: " June 4 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, and June 11 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, 1945, proved to be black days in CCF annals: socialism was effectively removed from the Canadian political agenda.

The historian Austin Lane Poole says that Gerald described Longchamp as more like an ape than a man.

Of his work in the east, historian Gerald Reitlinger stated:

Off the air, as radio historian Gerald S. Nachman has recorded, Harris was actually a soft-spoken, modest man.

Notable contributors include Mormon historians Leonard J. Arrington, and Thomas G. Alexander, former Salt Lake City mayor Ted Wilson, noted non-Mormon LDS historian Jan Shipps, authors Steven R. Covey, Gerald N. Lund, and Richard Eyre, respected scholar and apologist Hugh Nibley, and a few members of LDS hierarchy like Paul Evans, H. David Burton, and Jeffery R. Holland.

In 1977, the year before his death, Catton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Gerald R. Ford, who noted that the author and historian " made us hear the sounds of battle and cherish peace.

* Gerald Howat – historian, teacher and cricket writer

The American Philosophical Society describes his historical paintings as " verity with verisimilitude ", and art historian Gerald Ackerman, Professor Emeritus at Pomona College, describes them as " splendid in the accuracy of accessories, clothing and especially in the details of land conveyances and ships ", but " extremely dry in execution and rather monotonous in composition.

Henry Fitzgerald Heard commonly called Gerald Heard ( October 6, 1889-August 14, 1971 ) was an historian, science writer, educator, and philosopher.

Veteran radio announcer Ed Herlihy, a friend of Morgan, remembered him to radio historian Gerald Nachman ( in Raised on Radio ): " He was ahead of his time, but he was also hurt by his own disposition.

Radio historian Gerald Nachman ( in Raised on Radio ) called the show " insightful and realistic ... a real leap forward in domestic comedy -- a lighthearted, clever, well-observed, daily 15-minute show about the amiable travails of a recognizable suburban couple " which combined " the domestic comedy of a vaudeville-based era with a keen modern sensibility.

Harry Ackerman, at the time CBS's West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.

CIA historian Gerald Haines noted “ A massive build-up of sightings over the United States in 1952, especially in July, alarmed the Truman administration.