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, Æðelwealh, king of Sussex, had previously been baptised in Mercia at the suggestion of Wulfhere, who presented him with the Isle of Wight and the Meonwara.

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 the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

According to Asser, because of Pope Marinus ’ friendship with King Alfred, the pope granted an exemption to any Anglo-Saxons residing within Rome from tax or tribute.

According to Hosea Ballou, then Pierre Batiffol ( 1911 ) and George T. Knight ( 1914 ) Amalric was a believer that all people would eventually be saved and this was one of the counts upon which he was declared a heretic by Pope Innocent III.

According to this account, Athanasius composed it during his exile in Rome, and presented it to Pope Julius I as a witness to his orthodoxy.

According to Philip Schaff, " To the Greek acts was afterwards added a ( pretended ) letter of Pope John VIII.

According to George Weigel's biography of John Paul II, Paul VI named Archbishop Karol Wojtyła ( later Pope John Paul II ) to the commission.

According to legend, he called out from the flames that both Pope Clement and King Philip would soon meet him before God.

According to it, it was the attack of the Margrave that forced the Christianization, which was to be an act of subordination to the Emperor, done without the mediation of the Pope.

According to Michelangelo's account, Bramante and Raphael convinced the Pope to commission Michelangelo in a medium not familiar to the artist.

According to the letters of Pope Gregory I, a Romanized and Christianized culture ( that of the provinciales ) co-existed with several Pagan cultures ( those of the Gens Barbaricina, i. e. " Barbarian People ") mainly located in the island's interior.

According to other early sources Pope Clement I was the Pope after Peter.

According to Phayer, " the face of Pope Pius that we see in these documents is not the same face we see in the eleven volumes the Vatican published of World War II documents, a collection which, though valuable, is nonetheless critically flawed because of its many omissions ".

According to the Liber Pontificalis, in 720 Pope Gregory sent to Odo, Duke of Aquitaine, “ three blessed sponges / baskets of bread ”.

According to contemporary John Bargrave, in 1636 members of the Spanish faction of the College of Cardinals were so horrified by the conduct of Pope Urban VIII that they conspired to have him arrested and imprisoned ( or killed ) so that they could replace him with a new pope ; namely Laudivio Zacchia.

According to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, Innocent was the son of a man called Innocens of Albano, but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I ( 399 – 401 ), whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed ( he had been born before his father's entry to the clergy ).

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

" () According to the current Roman Catholic Pope, Benedict XVI, " Peace is achieved by consciences that are open to the truth and to love "

According to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS, Karl Wolff, it was also based on the model from the Society of Jesus of absolute obedience to the Pope.

According to Walter Mapes in De Nugis Curialium ( Trifles of Courtiers ), Pope Sylvester II ( 999 – 1003 ) was involved with a succubus named Meridiana, who helped him achieve his high rank in the Catholic Church.

According to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic cross and a letter of blessing officially recognizing Stephen as the Christian king of Hungary.

According to tradition, Pope St. Pontian died on Tavolara following his abdication and exile in 235.

According to the Roman Catholic faith the first Pope was a fisherman, the Apostle Peter, a number of the miracles, and many parables and stories reported in the Bible involve it.