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St. Gildas (c. 500–570) was a 6th-century British historian and cleric. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during this period. His renowned learning and literary style earned him the designation Gildas the Wise or Gildas Sapiens. His most well known work is De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae which recounts the sub-Roman history of Britain and which is the only substantial source for history of this period written by a near-contemporary.
