Máel Dub (the Gaelic name ''Máel'' meaning "disciple" and ''Dub'' being a byname, "dark"; Latinized as ''Maildubus'', anglicized as ''Maildulf'' and other variants) was a

Saint In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of Q-D-Š, holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and Christian denomination, denominat ...

and reputed Irish monk of the 7th century, said to have founded a monastic house at Malmesbury, England.Lapidge, "Máeldub" It was implied by

Bede Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom o ...

that the monastery was said to have been named after him (HE 5.18, the monastery "which they call the monastery of Máel Dub" 'quod Maildubi Urbem nuncupant''. There is evidence from a later charter that his name was Máel Duin. Among his pupils were

Aldhelm Aldhelm ( ang, Ealdhelm, la, Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis) (c. 63925 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century. He is said to have been the so ...

, the founder of Malmesbury Abbey, and Daniel of Winchester. He died in around 675 and was buried in the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Malmesbury. His bones were cast out in the 11th century by the Norman abbot Warin of Lyre and relegated to a far corner of St. Michael's Church.

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* Lapidge, Michael, "Máeldub (supp. fl. mid-7th cent.)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
, accessed 29 March 2009
675 deaths 7th-century Irish priests Irish Christian monks Irish expatriates in England History of Wiltshire Year of birth unknown Malmesbury Abbey {{Ireland-RC-clergy-stub