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  • s. xx–xxi
  • supp. fl. 8th century
  • Caisel, Regensburg, abbey of St James, Niedermünster
Albart or Albert, a patron of Cashel of dubious historicity. A 12th-century life was written for him at St James, Regensburg (Vita S. Alberti archiepiscopi Casellensis) which identifies him as an Anglo-Saxon missionary who was active in both Ireland and Bavaria, undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and died in Regensburg.

Albert the Great See: Albertus Magnus

  • d. 1280
  • Regensburg, Cologne, Würzburg
German Dominican friar and philosopher/theologian. For a brief period, he was bishop of Regensburg (1260-1263).
  • d. 804
English clergyman, scholar and poet.
  • fl. 9th century(?)
Scholar known from an attribution to a table of computus, where he is called a brother of John Scottus Eriugena.
Aldfrith son of Oswiu, king of Northumbria
  • d. 709
  • Sherborne, Malmesbury
abbot of Malmesbury and later, bishop of Sherborne; known as an author of a number of elaborate Latin tracts in prose and in verse
  • s. xx–xxi

Alfred the Great See: Alfred [king of Wessex]

  • 1540/1542?–1632
  • Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gloucester Hall
English mathematician and antiquary.

Allin-Collins (Ralph St Vincent) See: Ralph St Vincent Allin-Collins

Alltud Eifion See: Robert Isaac Jones