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Welsh historian
  • c.1564–1634
  • Plas Iolyn
Welsh poet, adventurer; son of Ellis Prys of Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire.
  • 1501/2–1555
  • Brecon
Scholar and administrator of Brecon; son of Rhys ap Gwilym ap Llywelyn and of Gwenllian daughter of Hywel ap Madog.
  • d. 859
  • Mainz, Fulda
Irish monk, scholar and poet at Mainz; known to have been the owner of a copy of Isidore’s Etymologiae (Laon MS 447). An obit of 859 is recorded in the annals of Fulda.

Probus Scottus of Mainz See: Probus of Mainz

  • s. xx–xxi
  • 348–after 405
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, late antique Christian poet from northern Spain, who is known chiefly for works such as the Psychomachia and Contra Symmachum.
Bishop of Troyes, theologian and historian. He was born in Spain and became active at the Frankish court in the time of Louis the Pious. In response to Hincmar and Eriugena, he wrote treatises on the doctrine of predestination.
  • s. xx–xxi
  • d. 1790
  • Redruth
A medical practitioner based in Redruth, Cornwall, who was also an author on mining and mineralogy, an antiquary and an advocate of the Cornish language.

Prys (Tomos) See: Thomas Price [Tomos Prys]

  • 1807–1889

Pseudo-Augustine ... Irish See: Augustinus Hibernicus

  • fl. 7th century
Anonymous Irish author of the Latin treatise De duodecim abusivis saeculi, a work which is otherwise attributed in the manuscripts to Cyprian, the 3th-century bishop of Carthage.