According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of the Nord Angelnen ( Northumbria ), Ost Angelnen ( East Anglia ), and the Mittlere Angelnen ( Mercia ).

According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

According to Cuthbert, Bede fell ill " with frequent attacks of breathlessness but almost without pain ", before Easter.

According to his disciple Cuthbert, Bede was also doctus in nostris carminibus (" learned in our songs ").

According to Bede, Æthelberht was descended directly from Hengist.

According to Bede, Hengist and Horsa were the sons of Wictgils, son of Witta, son of Woden.

According to Bede, they finally settled in Kent ( where they became known as the Cantuarii ), Hampshire ( in Wessex ), and the Isle of Wight ( where they became known as the Uictuarii ).

According to Bede, Justus received letters of encouragement from Pope Boniface V ( 619 – 625 ), as did Mellitus, although Bede does not record the actual letters.

" According to Bede, Pope Boniface also sent letters to King Edwin of Northumbria in 625 urging him to embrace the Christian faith, and to the Christian Princess Æthelburg of Kent, Edwin's spouse, exhorting her to use her best endeavours for the conversion of her consort ( Bede, H. E., II, vii, viii, x, xi ).

According to Bede, Sussex was subject to Ine for a number of years.

According to Bede, some bishops and other representatives of the nearest province of the Britons met Augustine at a location at the border of the Kingdom of Kent, which was thereafter known as Augustine's Oak.

According to Bede, the British Christians ' failure to " complete " the sacrament of Baptism was one of the three specific issues with British practice that Augustine could not overlook.

According to Bede missionaries were sent from Rome by Eleutherius at the request of the chieftain Lucius of Britain in AD 180 to settle controverted points of differences as to Eastern and Western ceremonials which were disturbing the church.

According to Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a history of the English church written by the 8th-century monk Bede, there were seven early Anglo-Saxon rulers who held imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms.

According to Bede, his death threatened to cause further strife between the two kingdoms, but Theodore, the Archbishop of Canterbury, intervened: Theodore, the beloved of God, enlisting God's help, smothered the flames of this awful peril by his wholesome advice.

According to Gildas, followed by Bede, Roman Caerleon was the site of two early Christian martyrdoms, those of Julius and Aaron.

According to Bede, Osric was, like Eanfrith, a Christian who reverted to paganism upon coming to power.

According to Bede, Eadbald was punished for his faithlessness by " frequent fits of insanity ", and possession by an " evil spirit " ( perhaps referring to epileptic fits ), but was eventually persuaded to give up his wife and adopt Christianity.

According to Bede, Oswiu allowed Peada to rule the southern part of Mercia ; southern Mercia consisted of 5, 000 families, Bede reports, while northern Mercia was populated by 7, 000 families, and the two were divided by the River Trent.

According to early historians such as the Venerable Bede and Gildas, whose writings were later brought together in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in 449 Angles, Saxons and Jutes were invited to Britain by King Vortigern as mercenaries to help defend Britain against Picts and Scots.

According to Bede, before the battle Oswiu prayed to God and promised to make his daughter a nun and grant twelve estates for the construction of monasteries if he was victorious.

According to Xenophon, Agesilaus, in order to gain money for prosecuting the war, supported the satrap Ariobarzanes II in his revolt against Artaxerxes II in 364 BC ( Revolt of the Satraps ), and in 361 BC he went to Egypt at the head of a mercenary force to aid the king Nectanebo I and his regent Teos against Persia.

According to Livy, his first act as king was to order the Pontifex Maximus to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of Numa Pompilius to be displayed to the public, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.

According to Thucydides, the official aim of the League was to " avenge the wrongs they suffered by ravaging the territory of the king.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to the book of Ezra-Nehemiah they did so under the joint leadership of a descendant of the last king and the last High Priest, rebuilding the Temple and reconstituting Judah ( now called Yehud ) as a holy community ruled by priests.

According to the information given in the book, Ezekiel ben-Buzi was born into a priestly family of Jerusalem c. 623 BCE, during the reign of the reforming king Josiah.

According to Philo, the visit was met with jeers from the Greek population who saw Agrippa as the king of the Jews.

According to the king lists, he was counted the 70th and last king of the Picts in later times.

According to a Sinhalese legend, Kandyan dances originated 250 years ago, from a magic ritual that broke the spell on a bewitched king.

According to this doctrine, only God can judge an unjust king.

According to the Bible, she was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus.

According to a well-known legend, Hengist and Horsa, two brothers, landed in 449 as mercenaries for a British king, Vortigern.

According to Gregory of Tours, Charibert was king when he married Ingoberg, Bertha ’ s mother, which places that marriage no earlier than 561.

According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei received a bronze statue of Buddha as a gift from the king of Paekche King Song Myong ( 聖明王, Seimei Ō ) along with a significant envoy of artisans, monks, and other artifacts in 552.

According to Nihonshoki, the king of the Korean Silla Kingdom grieved very much when Ingyō died.

According to Flateyjarbók Grímr Kamban settled in Faroe when Harald Hårfagre was king of Norway ( 872 – 930 ).

According to Jordanes's Getica, the Goths entered Oium, part of Scythia, under their 5th king, Filimer, where they subdued the Spali ( Sarmatians ), conquered the Kingdom of the Bosporus and captured several cities on the Euxinean coast, including Olbia and Tyras.

According to the biblical history Ezra and Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem in the middle of the 5th century BCE, the first empowered by the Persian king to enforce the Torah, the second with the status of governor and a royal mission to restore the walls of the city.

According to the theology of the Deuteronomists the terms of the treaty with Yahweh were that he would preserve both the city and the king in return for their worship and obedience to the law-code.

According to the Hebrew Testament, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon's Assyrians in c 720 BC and was king of Judah during the invasion and siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BC.

According to the scriptures, Bahubali, also known as Gommateshvara, was the second of the one hundred sons of Rishabha and king of Podanpur.

According to the story, after the king asked his daughter Miaoshan to marry the wealthy man, she told him that she would obey his command, so long as the marriage eased three misfortunes.

According to Norse mythology as contained in the thirteenth-century Icelandic work Prose Edda, the lake was created by the goddess Gefjon when she tricked Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfaginning.

According to La Marle's reading of Linear A, which have been heavily criticised as arbitrary we should read mwi-nu ro-ja ( Minos the king ) on a Linear A tablet.