Llunwerth or Llwmbert (fl. c. AD 873) was a
bishop of Meneva
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(modern
St. David's
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Wales
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The
Annals of Wales
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and Plumber name him as the direct successor to Bishop
Nobis
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* Nobis (bishop) (fl. 9th century), a bishop of St David's
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,
Annals of Wales
The (Latin for ''Annals of Wales'') is the title given to a complex of Latin chronicles compiled or derived from diverse sources at St David's in Dyfed, Wales. The earliest is a 12th-century presumed copy of a mid-10th-century original; later ed ...
(B text), p. 10.[Plumber, Charles. ]
The Life and Time of Alfred the Great
'. 1902. Accessed 18 Feb 2013. while the diocese itself places him at a remove of eight successors.
[''St. David's Cathedral''.]
Past Bishops & Deans
. Accessed 18 Feb 2013. He is recorded in the
Book of Llandaf as a contemporary of
Tewdwr ab Elisedd,
king of Brycheiniog.
[
The Annals of Wales record him serving for an improbable 65 years.][
He is sometimes known as Llunwerth II to distinguish him from an earlier bishop of the same name.
]
References
Bishops of St Davids
9th-century Welsh bishops
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