In 988 a Viking raid on St Davids killed Bishop Morgeneu, making him the first bishop of St Davids to be killed by the Norse. This is one of the most precisely dated of the many Viking attacks on St Davids. The cathedral was sacked at least five times between 820 and 1091. The killing of the bishop demonstrates the extreme vulnerability of Welsh coastal religious centres to Norse raiding from Dublin. St Davids was sacked again in 999 and 1012.
Bishop Morgeneu killed
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