- This cathedral church must not be confounded with
the celebrated college of the same name, in Flintshire, founded by
Dunod Vawr, son of Pabo, a chieftain who lived about the beginning
of the sixth century, and from him called Bangor Dunod.
The Bangor,
i.e. the college, in Caernarvonshire, is properly called Bangor
Deiniol, Bangor Vawr yn Arllechwedd, and Bangor Vawr uwch Conwy. It
owes its origin to Deiniol, son of Dunod ap Pabo, a saint who lived
in the early part of the sixth century, and in the year 525 founded
this college at Bangor, in Caernarvonshire, over which he presided
as abbot. Guy Rufus, called by our author Guianus, was at this time
bishop of this see, and died in 1190.
{160} Guianus, or Guy Rufus, dean of Waltham, in Essex, and
consecrated to this see, at Ambresbury, Wilts, in May 1177.
{161} Mona, or Anglesey.
{162} The spot selected by Baldwin for addressing the multitude,
has in some degree been elucidated by the anonymous author of the
Supplement to Rowland's Mona Antiqua. He says, that "From tradition
and memorials still retained, we have reasons to suppose that they
met in an open place in the parish of Landisilio, called Cerrig y
Borth. The inhabitants, by the grateful remembrance, to perpetuate
the honour of that day, called the place where the archbishop stood,
Carreg yr Archjagon, i.e. the Archbishop's Rock; and where prince
Roderic stood, Maen Roderic, or the Stone of Roderic." This account
is in part corroborated by the following communication from Mr.
Richard Llwyd of Beaumaris, who made personal inquiries on the spot.
"Cerrig y Borth, being a rough, undulating district, could not, for
that reason, have been chosen for addressing a multitude; but
adjoining it there are two eminences which command a convenient
surface for that purpose; one called Maen Rodi (the Stone or Rock of
Roderic), the property of Owen Williams, Esq.; and the other Carreg
Iago, belonging to Lord Uxbridge. This last, as now pronounced,
means the Rock of St. James; but I have no difficulty in admitting,
that Carreg yr Arch Iagon may (by the compression of common,
undiscriminating language, and the obliteration of the event from
ignorant minds by the lapse of so many centuries) be contracted into
Carreg Iago. Cadair yr archesgob is now also contracted into Cadair
(chair, a seat naturally formed in the rock, with a rude arch over
it, on the road side, which is a rough terrace over the breast of a
rocky and commanding cliff, and the nearest way from the above
eminences to the insulated church of Landisilio. This word Cadair,
though in general language a chair, yet when applied to exalted
situations, means an observatory, as Cadair Idris, etc.; but there
can, in my opinion, be no doubt that this seat in the rock is that
described by the words Cadair yr Archesgob." [Still more probable,
and certainly more flattering to Giraldus, is that it was called
"Cadair yr Arch Ddiacon" (the Archdeacon's chair).]
{163} This hundred contained the comots of Mynyw, or St. David's,
and Pencaer.
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