The Lives of the Holy Abbots of Weremouth and Jarrow: Benedict, Ceolfrid, Easterwine, Sigfrid, and Huetberht

Bede ( 672? – 735), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its monastery, Saint Paul’s, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria. Bede’s monastery had access to a superb library which included works by Eusebius and Orosius.

He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work,The Ecclesiastical History of the English People gained him the title “The Father of English History”.