Idloes

Venerable Idloes is the patron of Llanidloes in Montgomeryshire, Wales. He was the son of Gwyddnabi ab Llawfrodedd Farfog. Very little is known of him; some genealogies give him a daughter, Meddwyth. His feast is on 6 September, and at Llanidloes a fair was formerly held on the first Saturday of September. His holy well, Ffynnon Idloes, stood on the Lower Green, now Hafren Street. The poet Iolo Goch, in the fourteenth century, asks for his protection in a poem, and an old wise saying of "old Idloes" praises the peaceful man of good conduct.