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De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (Latin: On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain, sometimes just On the Ruin of Britain) is a work written in Latin in the late fifth or sixth century by the British religious polemicist Gildas.
Gildas (English pronunciation: / ˈ ɡ ɪ l d ə s /, Breton: Gweltaz; c. 450/500 – c. 570) [a] [b] — also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and Gildas Sapiens (Gildas the Wise) — was a 6th-century British monk best known for his religious polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which recounts the history of the Britons before and ...
The appeal is first referenced in Gildas' 6th-century De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae; [3] Gildas' account was later repeated in chapter 13 of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. [4] According to Gildas, the message was addressed to "Agitius", who is generally identified with the general Flavius Aetius. [4]
Based on older sources such as Vita Germani and De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, the 8th-century historian Bede wrote that no organised church survived in the areas under Anglo-Saxon control, with no bishoprics or churches that were not in ruins. [9]
The earliest mention of the Battle of Badon appears in Gildas' De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain), written in the early to mid-6th century. In it, the Anglo-Saxons are said to have "dipped [their] red and savage tongue in the western ocean" before Ambrosius Aurelianus organized a British resistance with the ...
De excidio et conquestu Britanniae ("On the Ruin & Conquest of Britain") by Gildas De excidio Troiae ("On the Destruction of Troy") by " Dares the Phrygian " Topics referred to by the same term
Maelgwn (IPA: /mɑːɨlgʊn/) in a Middle Welsh name meaning "Princely Hound". Attested in Latin as Maglocunus in Gildas' De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, it derives from a Common Brittonic form reconstructed as *Maglo-kunos, a compound composed of the root *maglo- (MW.
[2] This was founded on a belief that Gildas the Wise was born in AD 494 and died in AD 570, and wrote his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae between AD 564 and 570. Gildas the Albanian, Butler and others believed, lived much earlier, dying in AD 512. [3]