pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Gerald the Welshman - Giraldus Cambrensis - was born, probably in 1147, at Manorbier Castle in the county of Pembroke. His father was a Norman noble, William de Barri, who took his name from the little island of Barry off the coast of Glamorgan. His mother, Angharad, was the daughter of Gerald de Windsor {1} by his wife, the famous Princess Nesta, the "Helen of Wales, " and the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr, the last independent Prince of South Wales.