Bede

American  

[beed] / bid /

noun

1. Saint the Venerable Bede, a.d. 673?–735, English monk, historian, and theologian: wrote earliest history of England.

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Bede British  

/ biːd /

noun

1. Latin name: Baeda.  Saint , known as the Venerable Bede . ?673–735 _ad , English monk, scholar, historian, and theologian, noted for his Latin Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731). Feast day: May 27 or 25

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Bede seems often to have known no more than we do today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Bede chose not include the original Old English poem in his History, but to translate it into Latin.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026

Historians have long-been intrigued by a reference by the 8th Century monk-chronicler Bede to the royal complex at Rendlesham, Suffolk.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023

St. Bede is located in affluent La Cañada Flintridge, where La Cañada Unified was just ranked the fourth-best school district in California by Niche.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2023

Bede started his history with the year 60 BC—60 years before Dionysius’s reference year.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife