Britonia

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Britonia was the name of a bishopric in the former Roman province of Gallaecia in north-west Iberia, and is used by modern historians in reference to an early medieval settlement of Britons in the same area. The settlement, often described as a southern counterpart to Brittany, formed part of the wider British diaspora of the fifth and sixth centuries. There is contemporary evidence of the settlement itself being called Britonia: in the medieval sources that survive, the name denotes the diocese and on occasion a place. The see is recorded in the Parochiale Suevorum, a list of the bishoprics of the Kingdom of the Suebi compiled in the second half of the sixth century, as the 'see of the Britons', to which belonged the churches of the Britons, the monastery of Maximus and churches in Asturias. Five of the see's clergy can be identified with confidence from the acts of church councils held between 572 and 675: its bishops, Mailoc, Metopius, Sonna and Bela, and the priest Mactericus, who represented...

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