Nobis (bishop)

{{Short description|Welsh bishop}}

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Nobis or NovisGerald of Wales. Itinerarium Kambriae, [https://archive.org/stream/rerumbritannica27offigoog#page/n190/mode/2up II.i.] Accessed 13 Feb 2013. {{in lang|la}} ({{langx|cy|Nyfys}};Evans, John & al. St David of Wales: Cult, Church, and Nation, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LN9DSKZfItcC&pg=PA299 p. 299]. Boydell Press, 2007. Accessed 13 Feb 2013. fl. c. 840) is traditionally considered to have been a bishop of Meneva (modern St Davids) in the medieval Welsh kingdom of Dyfed.

The arrival of a bishop is noted by the Annals of Wales,The Annals of Wales (B Text), p. 10. which Phillimore's reconstruction places in AD 840.Phillimore, Egerton. Y Cymmrodor 9 (1888), pp. 141–83. (excerpt) {{in lang|la}} Asser counts "Archbishop Nobis" as a relativeAsser. [http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/john-asser/assers-life-of-king-alfred-ala.shtml Life of King Alfred], §79. and Gerald of Wales and other sources later include him on their bishop lists for the see. However, actual Latin of the Welsh annals read:

::Nobis episcopus inminiu regnavit

in the A text and

::Nouus episcopatum suscepit

in the B text.Annales Cambriae [The Annals of Wales] (B text), p. 10. {{in lang|la}} Either could describe the arrival of a bishop named "Nyfys", but the Latin can also be read directly as "Our bishop reigned in Meneva" ({{langx|owl|Miniu}}) and "A new bishop arrived". Similarly, the Latin of Asser's Life of King Alfred could be rendered "our bishop, my relative".{{langx|la|nobis archiepiscopum, propinquum meum}}... {{mdash}} Asserius. De rebus gestis Ælfredi ("Life of King Alfred"), [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/asserius.html §79]. Accessed 13 Feb 2013. {{in lang|la}} For the year 840, the Welsh Chronicle of the Princes (Brut y Tywysogion) notes only that "The Bishop of Meneva died"Brut y Tywysogion, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CZAbAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA13 p. 13].{{langx|cy|Oed Crist 840, y bu farw esgob Mynyw}}. {{mdash}} Brut, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CZAbAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA12 p. 12]. {{in lang|cy}} but goes on to mention that "Einion, of Noble Descent, bishop of Meneva, died" in AD 871.Brut, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CZAbAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA15 p. 15].{{langx|cy|Oed Crist 871, bu farw Einion Fonheddig escob Mynyw}}... {{mdash}} Brut, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CZAbAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA14 p. 14]. {{in lang|cy}} This Bishop Einion passes unmentioned in Gerald or sources derived from him.