The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales

INTRODUCTION

GERALD THE WELSHMAN—Giraldus Cambrensis—was born, probably in 1147, at Manorbier Castle in the county of Pembroke. His father was a Norman noble, William de Barri, who took his name from the little island of Barry off the coast of Glamorgan. His mother, Angharad, was the daughter of Gerald de Windsor {0a} by his wife, the famous Princess Nesta, the “Helen of Wales,” a...