Conchessa ferch Ochbes (Unknown) Calpurnius (abt. 332)

Born about 0332 in Gaul, Roman Empire

Descendants

Biography

Patrick, by his own writings came from a noble Roman family. In his ST. PATRICK'S EPISTLE TO THE CHRISTIAN SUBJECTS OF THE TYRANT COROTICUS he writes: "I do not say to my fellow-citizens, nor to the fellow-citizens of pious Romans,". And in the biography written by Jocelin, he states: "There was once a man named Calphurnius, the son of Potitus, a presbyter, by nation a Briton, living in the village Taburnia (that is, the field of the tents, for that the Roman army had there pitched their tents), near the town of Empthor, and his habitation was nigh unto the Irish Sea. This man married a French damsel named Conchessa, niece of the blessed Martin, Archbishop of Tours; and the damsel was elegant in her form and in her manners, for, having been brought from France with her elder sister into the northern parts of Britain, and there sold at the command of her father, Calphurnius, being pleased with her manners, charmed with her attentions, and attracted with her beauty, very much loved her, and, from the state of a serving-maid in his household, raised her to be his companion in wedlock. And her sister, having been delivered unto another man, lived in the aforementioned town of Empthor."

The name "ferch Ochbes" is not mentioned in the early writings just the first name of Conchessa and an alignment of her to St Martin of Tours. However the first mention of Conchessa is from Jocelin, written 1185.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Family Tree record for Tigridia of Ireland: Ancestry Member Family Tree, Database online: Record for Tigridia of Ireland.

See also:

• http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18482/18482-h/18482-h.htm (This is a compendium of early sources pertinent to St Patrick. The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick, by Various, Edited by James O'Leary listed. Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings written around 1185. Also includes Confession of St Patrick purported to be written by the Bishop within a few years of his death around 455, and his letter to the Tyrant Coroticus the following year, The Metrical Life of St. Patrick by St. Fiech written around 493, and The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick by St. McEvin written in 510. The later the work the more fanciful the claims
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick
• Wikidata: Item Q25616100, ga:Wikipedia

Acknowledgments

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• This person was created through the import of SRW 7th July 2011.ged on Jul 7, 2011.