Mailoc

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Mailoc or Maeloc was the bishop of Britonia (Britoniensis ecclesiae episcopus) who participated in the Second Council of Braga (572). He represented the British colony established in northern Galicia by Romano-British migrants fleeing the Anglo-Saxon invasions of Great Britain from the fifth to seventh century.

[edit] Sources

• Richards, Melville, "Mailoc", Habis, III, 1972, p. 159.
• Tovar, António, "Un obispo con nombre británico y los orígenes de la diócesis de Mondoñedo", Habis, III, 1972, pp. 155-158.
• Vives, J., Concilios visigóticos e hispano-romanos, Madrid, 1963.
• Young, Simon, The Bishops of the early medieval diocese of Britonia (forthcoming).
• Young, Simon, "Note on Britones in Thirteenth-century Galicia", Studia Celtica, XXXV (2001), pp. 361-2.
• Young, Simon, "The Forgotten Colony", History Today, L, oct. 2000, pp. 5-6.

[edit] See also

• Diocese of Ferrol-Mondoñedo (Formerly known as: Dioecesis Britoniensis).

[edit] External Links::

• (English) The Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis Province in the 21st Century (Alternatives: The Britonia Province)