Illtud

Who was Illtud?

Illtud was the Welsh founder-abbot and teacher of Llanilltud Fawr in the Welsh county of Glamorgan, where he is said to have re-established the monastery school known as Cor Tewdws around the beginning of the sixth century. With the assistance of Meirchon, a local chieftain, it became a centre of learning, one of the three great monastic schools in the Diocese of Llandaff. He flourished in the latter part of the fifth and beginning of the sixth century. In Glamorganshire many churches were dedicated to him. Some Breton churches and villages bear his name.