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3 unusual facts about bishop of St David's


Princess Sophia of Gloucester

The princess was privately christened at Gloucester House on 26 June 1773, by Charles Moss, The Bishop of St David's.

Robert Brooke, Sr.

Brooke married second, on May 11, 1635, Mary Mainwaring, daughter of Roger Mainwaring (1582–1653), Dean of Worcester and Bishop of St David's, and his wife Cecilia Proper.

Walter Map

He was once more a candidate for a bishopric in 1203, this time as Bishop of St David's, but was once more not consecrated.


Edward Smallwell

Edward Smallwell (c.1720–1799) was an English bishop of St David's and bishop of Oxford.

Little Gidding

The following year, in 1626, Nicholas Ferrar was ordained as a Deacon by William Laud (1573–1645) then Bishop of St David's and later Archbishop of Canterbury.


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Bleiddud

The chapter of St David's, in an address to Pope Eugenius III of the year 1145, stated that a man named Melan of Llanelwy (Melanus Llanelvensis) was consecrated bishop of St Asaph by Bleiddud while he was bishop of St David's.

Castlemorris

Prior to 1175, both manors were then granted to Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan by his brother David FitzGerald, then the second Norman approved bishop of St David's, as part reward for Maurice's appointment as hereditary steward of the episcopate.

David Fitzgerald

David FitzGerald (c. 1106–1176), medieval bishop of St David's in Wales

Marmaduke Lloyd

Lloyd was the son of Thomas Lloyd, a precentor at St David's Cathedral, and the nephew of Marmaduke Middleton, who was Bishop of St David's from.