Tegid (DNB00)
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TEGID (1792-1852), Welsh poet and antiquary. [See Jones, John.]
TEIGNMOUTH, BARON. [See Shore, John, first baron, 1751-1834.]
TEILO (fl. 550), British saint, was born at ‘Eccluis Gunniau (or Guiniau)’ in the neighbourhood of Tenby (Lib. Land. pp. 124, 255). The statement of the life in the ‘Liber Landavensis’ that he was of noble parentage is supported by the genealogies, which make him the son of a man variously called Enoc, Eusych, Cussith, and Eisyllt, and great-grandson of Ceredig ap Cunedda Wledig (Myvyrian Archaiology, 2nd edit. pp. 415, 430; Iolo MSS. p. 124). In the life of Oudoceus in the ‘Liber Landavensis’ the form is Ensic (p. 130). Mr. Phillimore believes (Cymmrodor, xi. 125) the name should be Usyllt, the patron saint of St. Issell's, near Tenby. Teilo's first preceptor was, according to his legend, Dyfrig (cf. the Life of Dyfrig in Lib. Land. p. 80). He next entered the monastic school of Paulinus, where David (d. 601?) [q. v.], his kinsman, was his fellow-pupil. In substantial agreement with the accounts given in the legends of David and Padarn, it is said that the three saints received a divine command to visit Jerusalem, where they were made bishops—a story clearly meant to bring out British independence of Rome. Teilo especially distinguished himself on this journey by his saintly humility and power as a preacher. He received as a gift a bell of miraculous virtue, and returned to take charge of the diocese of Llandaff in succession to Dyfrig. Almost immediately, however, the yellow plague (which is known to have caused the death of Maelgwn Gwynedd about 547) began to rage in Britain, whereupon Teilo, at the bidding of an angel, withdrew to Brittany, spending some time on the way as the guest of King Geraint of Cornwall. When the plague was over it was his wish to return to this country, but, at the instance of King Budic and Bishop Samson [q. v.], he remained in Brittany for seven years and seven months. Returning at last to his bishopric, he became chief over all the churches of ‘dextralis Britannia,’ sending Ismael to fill the place of David at Menevia, and other disciples of his to new dioceses which he created. As his end drew near, three churches, viz. Penally, Llandaff, and Llandeilo Fawr (where he died), contended for the honour of receiving his corpse, but the dispute was settled by the creation of three bodies, a
