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Wallensis

Wallensis [cf. Wallia], of the (Celtic) people of the former Roman Britain, ‘British’, ‘Welsh’, (also spec.) of Wales, Welsh (also passing into surname), (as sb. m.) Welsh person. quod si Walensis Walensem occiderit, congregantur parentes occisi et praedantur eum qui occidit ejusque propinquos DB I 179rb; iij ~es lege ~i viventes DB I 185va; ad meridiem habens [sc. Hibernia] Angliam, ad ortum ‥ Scotos nec non et Brittos, quos quidam Galenses vocant Visio Tnugdali ed. A. Wagner (1882) 6; Britones omnes quos nos Walenses dicimus W. Malm. GR I 125; barbarie etiam irrepente jam non vocabantur Britones sed Gualenses G. Mon. XII 19; 1164 Malcolm' rex Scotorum, ‥ probis hominibus ‥ Francis et Anglis, Scottis et Walensibus tocius terre sue Regesta Scot. 240; usque in hodiernum, barbara nuncupatione, et homines Walenses et terra Wallia vocitatur Gir. DK I 7; clerus ille omnino indisciplinatus erat sicut ~es et Scoti P. Blois Ep. Sup. 4. 2; 1219 Johannem de Brewes vel Johannem Walensem CurR VIII 2; s1257 ~es ‥ confederati sunt ‥ ipsi de Northwallia cum ipsis de Suwallia, quod antea non [est] visum M. Par. Maj. V 645; de caballo cecidit. serviens illius ‥ more Walencium, clamavit, “Ob! Ob!” Mir. Montf. 90; in guerra mota inter patrem ejus Henricum Lancastrie et eosdem Vallenses Plusc. X 24; Wallienses ‥ constanter opinari solebant quod quedam pars Wallie foret principem paritura qui regnum Anglie ‥ erat pacifice possessurus Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 1.

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