Right-Believing
Gerren
A pious believer honored in Celtic Britain, who reposed in 710.
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- Reposed
- 7108th century
Life
Gerren, known also as Geraint or, in Latin, Gerontius, was a king of Dumnonia in the early eighth century and died in 710. In his reign Dumnonia came repeatedly into conflict with the neighbouring Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. He was the last recorded king of a unified Dumnonia, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle calls him king of the Welsh. The kings after him ruled an area that shrank to the limits of present-day Cornwall.
The sources consulted do not show veneration of him as a saint, although the record mentions it.