Geraint

Saint Geraint (Gerontius) was, according to the Western calendars, a Briton, king of Damnonia (Devon, in present-⁠day England), who fell in battle against the pagan Saxons, around the year 508.

The name Geraint is the Welsh form of the Latin Gerontius, "old man". Breton hagiographies recall a saintly king Geraint of Dumnonia, of the sixth century, who may have lived during or shortly before the time of Arthur, and a Welsh poem, "Geraint son of Erbin", celebrates his deeds at the battle of Llongborth, which scholars equate with the Portsmouth of the Anglo-⁠Saxon Chronicle. His story later entered the Arthurian legends. He is commemorated on 10 August as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.