David

David, or DEWI, St, the patron saint of Wales, first mentioned in the Annales Cambriae (10th century) as having died in 601, Bishop of Moni Judeorum, or Menevia, afterwards St David's. He presided over two Welsh synods, at Brefi and at 'Lucus Victoriae.' A rich legendary history supplements these meagre but authentic details. Rhygyfarch tells that he was grandson of King Ceredig, and a pupil of Paulinus, that he journeyed through Wales preaching and working miracles, visited Jerusalem, and denounced Pelagianism at Brefi with such triumphant loudness that he was made by acclamation metropolitan Archbishop of Wales. Giraldus follows Rhygyfarch in his life, and Geoffrey of Monmouth supplements it further by making David the uncle of King Arthur, and locating the metropolitan see first at Caerleon, whence it was transferred by David, with the sanction of Arthur, to Menevia.