Nobis or Novis
[ Gerald of Wales. '']Itinerarium Kambriae
The ''Itinerarium Cambriae'' ("The Itinerary Through Wales") is a medieval account of a journey made by Gerald of Wales, written in Latin.
Gerald was selected to accompany the Archbishop of Canterbury, Baldwin of Forde, on a tour of Wales in 118 ...
''
II.i.
Accessed 13 Feb 2013. ( cy, Nyfys;
[Evans, John & al. ''St David of Wales: Cult, Church, and Nation'']
p. 299
Boydell Press, 2007. Accessed 13 Feb 2013. fl. c. 840) is traditionally considered to have been a
bishop of Meneva
The Bishop of St Davids is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of St Davids.
The succession of bishops stretches back to Saint David who in the 6th century established his seat in what is today the city of St Davids in Pembrokeshire, f ...
(modern
St Davids
St Davids or St David's ( cy, Tyddewi, , "David's house”) is a city and a community (named St Davids and the Cathedral Close) with a cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales, lying on the River Alun. It is the resting place of Saint David, W ...
) in the
medieval Welsh
Middle Welsh ( cy, Cymraeg Canol, wlm, Kymraec) is the label attached to the Welsh language of the 12th to 15th centuries, of which much more remains than for any earlier period. This form of Welsh developed directly from Old Welsh ( cy, Hen ...
kingdom of Dyfed.
The arrival of a bishop is noted by the
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 ...
, which Phillimore's reconstruction places in AD 840.
[Phillimore, Egerton. ''Y Cymmrodor'' 9 (1888), pp. 141–83. ( excerpt) ] Asser counts "Archbishop Nobis" as a relative and
Gerald of Wales and other sources later include him on their bishop lists for the see.
[ However, actual Latin of the Welsh annals read:
::''Nobis episcopus inminiu regnavit''
in the A text][ and
::''Nouus episcopatum suscepit''
in the B text. Either ''could'' describe the arrival of a bishop named "Nyfys",][ but the Latin can also be read directly as "]Our
Our or OUR may refer to:
* The possessive form of "we"
* Our (river), in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany
* Our, Belgium, a village in Belgium
* Our, Jura, a commune in France
* Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), a Politics of Jamaica#Regulator ...
bishop reigned in Meneva" ( owl, Miniu) and "A new
New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created.
New or NEW may refer to:
Music
* New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz
Albums and EPs
* ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013
* ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, ...
bishop arrived". Similarly, the Latin of Asser's ''Life of King Alfred
Asser (; ; died 909) was a Welsh monk from St David's, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked by Alfred the Great to leave St David's and join the circle of learned men whom Alfred was recruiting for his ...
'' could be rendered "our bishop, my relative". For the year 840, the Welsh Chronicle of the Princes ('' Brut y Tywysogion'') notes only that "The Bishop of Meneva died" but goes on to mention that "Einion, of Noble Descent, bishop of Meneva, died" in AD 871.[ cy, Oed Crist 871, bu farw Einion Fonheddig escob Mynyw... ''Brut'']
p. 14
This Bishop Einion passes unmentioned in Gerald or sources derived from him.
References
Bishops of St Davids
9th-century Welsh bishops
{{wales-hist-stub