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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… perhaps in the year 637, 1 an Irish monk or hermit named Mailduib settled beneath the walls of a small stockade lying … of nuns, 2 appears then to have been almost deserted and Mailduib was attracted there in all probability by the … solitude of the woodland which surrounded the place. 3 Of Mailduib little is known save his Irish descent, his monastic …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… C. L., 140 Magdalen College, see Oxford university Mailduib (fl. mid 7th cent.), 9 n, 127 Malliard: John, 31 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… ideas, expressed ibid. 253, that Bremilham was the site of Mailduib's monastery and that there is evidence 'of a major …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 2 The word Malmesbury was perhaps derived from the name of Mailduib, an Irish monk or hermit who may have settled on or near the town's site in the mid 7th century. Mailduib is said to have gathered around him a school which … was current in the abbey in the 14th century that Mailduib's settlement lay beneath a fortified place, called …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… One of the earliest is to the learned Irish monk Mailduib, who settled in a desolate spot on the edge of …