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ended in his execution. His theological position may be seen from the Antidota and from the confession which he presented to the Bern clergy (printed in Trechsel). Gentile opposed the traditional doctrine of the Trinity and its " fantastical and sophistical " terminology, but he professed to be attempting to vindicate the position of the Persons in the Trinity as something more than mere constituent parts of the divine substance. He hoped to escape the difficulties of the doctrine of the two natures by conceding the incarnation of the Logos in Mary as a person at once divine and human, though he thus obscured the doctrine of the perfect humanity of Christ. K. Benrath.
Bibliography: The Geneva process of 1558 was published by Fazy in Memoires de I'Institut Genevois, vol. xiv., 1878-79; on the Bern process consult F. Trechsel, Die proiestantischen Antitrinitarier, vol. ii., Heidelberg, 1844, where some details concerning Gentile are given. Consult also J. H. Allen, Hist, of the Unitarians, p. 62, New York, 1894.
GENTILLET, zhoft"ti"lye', INNOCENT: French Reformed jurist; b. at Vienne; d. at Geneva, the dates of his birth and death being unknown. After the massacre of St. Bartholomew he fled to Geneva, but after the peace of 1576 was made head of the council of Die, and became president of the Parliament of Grenoble a short time later. He was deprived of his position, however, by an edict of 1585, whereupon he seems to have again sought refuge in Geneva. One of his two political works, the Discours sur les moyens de bien gouverner et mairdenir en bonne paix un royaume ou autre principaute contre Nicolas Machiavel Florentin
(Geneva, 1576), was translated into English by S. Patericke, A Discourse upon the Means of Wei Governing a Kingdom against N. Mach-
iavell (London, 1602). His Apologia pro Christianis Gallis religionis evangelicce seu reformatce (1578) ranks as one of the best defenses for the Reformation, while his Le Bureau du concile de Trente (1586) forms one of the ablest attacks upon the Council of Trent. (C. ScHMiDTf.)
GENTILLY, zhon"ti"yi' (GENTILIACUM) , SYN- OD OF, 767: An assembly mentioned in the Frankish annals, at which, in the presence of Greek and Roman emissaries, the doctrine of the Trinity, especially the procession of the Holy Spirit, and image-worship were discussed. It took place at Gentilly, a southern suburb of Paris, and was occasioned by a Byzantine embassy which had probably come for the purpose of winning the Frankish Church to the standpoint of Constantine V on the question of image-worship. The proceedings and resolutions of the synod are not known. The question concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit was only secondary and was probably stirred up by the papal nuncios for the purpose of sowing discord between the Franks and Greeks. There seems to have been no agreement, and this is only natural in consideration of the political conditions of Italy and the resolutions of the synod at Constantinople in 754 against image- worship.
(A. Hauck.)
Bibliography: Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, iii. 431-433, Eng. transl., v. 330-331, cf. Mansi, Concilia, xii. 613 sqq.
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH (Galfridus or Gaufridus Arturus, Galfridus Monemutensis; Welsh Galffrai or Gruffyd ap Arthur) : English chronicler; b., probably at Monmouth, c. 1100; d. at Llandaff 1154. He is thought to have been a monk of the Benedictine abbey at Monmouth, and about 1140 was made archdeacon of Llandaff. He was consecrated bishop of St. Asaph Feb. 24, 1152 but seems to have died before he actually entered on his duties there. Geoffrey is famous for his Historia regum Britannia, which was highly popular in all lands during the Middle Ages, furnished Sir Thomas Malory the material for his Mort d' Arthur and has been drawn upon by poets from Shakespeare to Tennyson. It is a skilful mixture of history, legend, and pure romance, beginning with the fall of Troy and the story of Brutus, a descendant of jEneas, who is made the ancestor of the Britons and ending with Cadwalader and the downfall of the Celtic power in Britain. The main source, Geoffrey states, was a " very old book " given him by Walter, archdeacon of Oxford, but he also used Gildas, Nennius, and Bede. The seventh of the twelve books appears to have been originally an independent work of Geoffrey's (De prophetiis Merlini). The text has been published by J. A. Giles (London, 1844) and in Gottfried's von Monmouth Historia regum Britannia und Brut Tysylio herausgegeben von San Marte [A. Schulz] (Halle, 1854); transl. by Aaron Thompson, The British History (London, 1718), revised and corrected by J. A. Giles, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History (1842).
Bibliography: ASB, Oct., ix. 94-98; T. Wright, Biographia Britannica, Anglo-Norman Period, pp. 143-150, London, 1846; idem, Essays on Archaeological Subjects, i. 202- 226, ib. 1861; P. Paris, Memoire sur . I'hist. des Bretons de Monmouth. Paris, 1865; T. Gilray, in Dublin University Magazine, April, 1876; A. de la Borderie, Etudes historiques Bretonnes, Paris, 1883; Haddan and Stubbs, Councils, i. 360-361; DNB, xxi. 133-135.
GEORGE III. OF ANHALT: Prince of Anhalt- Dessau; b. at Dessau Aug. 13 or 15, 1507; d. there Oct. 17, 1553. He was brought up with his brothers mainly by his devout mother Margaret, Duchess of Munsterberg. At the instance of his kinsman, Bishop Adolphus of Merseburg, he was elevated to the rank of canon in that see in 1518, and attended the University of Leipsic, where Georg Held of Forchheim was his " highly beloved master." In 1524 Adolphus consecrated him as priest. That he might be able the better to refute the Lutheran sect, he made a thorough study of the Bible, the Church Fathers, and church history. The extreme tension of mind and the qualms of conscience into which his investigations brought him induced a violent illness, which left its mark upon him for the rest of his life.
It was only after his mother's death (June, 1530) that he could see his way to entire clearness of faith; but from the time of the Diet of Augsburg (1530) both George and his brothers are found allied with the Reformers. After the first Evangelical celebration of the Lord's Supper at Dessau, on Maundy Thursday, 1534, George visited the district churches, making the fewest possible changes