Bede's dismissal of Æscwine and Centwine as merely sub-kings may represent the views of the supporters of the King Ine, whose family ruled Wessex in Bede's time.

Bede would probably have met the abbot during this visit, and it may be that Adomnan sparked Bede's interest in the Easter dating controversy.

The canonical age for the ordination of a deacon was 25 ; Bede's early ordination may mean that his abilities were considered exceptional, but it is also possible that the minimum age requirement was often disregarded.

Bede's remains may have been transferred to Durham Cathedral in the 11th century ; his tomb there was looted in 1541, but the contents were probably re-interred in the Galilee chapel at the cathedral.

This may be because Wilfrid's opulent lifestyle was uncongenial to Bede's monastic mind ; it may also be that the events of Wilfrid's life, divisive and controversial as they were, simply did not fit with Bede's theme of the progression to a unified and harmonious church.

It is likely that Bede's work, because it was so widely copied, discouraged others from writing histories and may even have led to the disappearance of manuscripts containing older historical works.

Bede's tale may come from the same root as the Irish tales of Cairpre Riata and his brothers, the Síl Conairi or sons / descendants of Conaire Mór / Conaire Cóem.

This " Roman " feature makes Bede's claim that Edwin was preceded by a standard-bearer carrying a " tufa " ( OE thuuf, this may have been a winged globe ) appear to be more than antiquarian curiosity, although whether the model for this practice was Roman or Frankish is unknown.

Coal was first known to be dug in Tyneside from superficial seams in around 1200, but there is some evidence from Bede's writings that it may have been dug as early as 800 AD.

Historians have generally accepted Bede's report of Coenred's and Offa's abdications, but Barbara Yorke has suggested that they may not have relinquished their thrones voluntarily.

This may explain a number of gaps in Bede's account of Chad, and why Bede sometimes seems to attribute to Chad implausible motives.

Historians have generally accepted Bede's report of Coenred's abdication, but Barbara Yorke has suggested that he may not have relinquished his throne voluntarily.

It may also be that the underkings were another dynastic faction of the West Saxon royal line, vying for power with Centwine and Cædwalla ; the description of them as " underkings " may be due to a partisan description of the situation by Bishop Daniel of Winchester, who was Bede's primary informant on West Saxon events.

Reformatting native religious and cultural activities and beliefs into a Christianized form was officially sanctioned ; preserved in the Venerable Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is a letter from Pope Gregory I to Mellitus, arguing that conversions were easier if people were allowed to retain the outward forms of their traditions, while claiming that the traditions were in honour of the Christian God, " to the end that, whilst some gratifications are outwardly permitted them, they may the more easily consent to the inward consolations of the grace of God ".

Mac Fhirbhisigh's own version of the Senchus begins with the earlier myth, tracing Dál Riata to the Síl Conairi and Cairpre Riata ( Rígfhota ), son of Conaire Mór and / or Conaire Cóem, who may be the Reuda of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

A possible explanation for Bede's discretion may be found in his comment that one should not make public accusations against church figures, no matter what their sins ; Bede may have found little good to say about the church in his day and hence preferred to keep silent.

This manuscript may have been the Latin text on which the Alfredian Old English translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History was based.

* That it arose in Anglo-Saxon England as an O and an I written in the same place, to represent a long close / ø / sound resulting from i-mutation of / o /: compare Bede's Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon period spelling Coinualch for standard Cēnwealh ( a man's name ) ( in a text in Latin ).

Bede's correspondent on Kentish affairs was Albinus, abbot of the monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul ( subsequently renamed St. Augustine's ) in Canterbury, and these views can almost certainly be ascribed to the Church establishment there.

A page from a copy of Bede's Lives of St. Cuthbert, showing Athelstan of England | King Athelstan presenting the work to the saint.

Boniface also gave Justus a letter congratulating him on the conversion of King " Aduluald " ( probably King Eadbald of Kent ), a letter which is included in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

Bede's account of Eadbald's conversion states that it was Laurence, Justus ' predecessor at Canterbury, who converted the King to Christianity, but the historian D. P. Kirby argues that the letter's reference to Eadbald makes it likely that it was Justus.

King Aethelstan ( 924 – 39 ) presenting a copy of Bede | Bede's Life of St Cuthbert to the saint himself.

Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum says that Hereric, the father of St Hilda of Whitby, was killed at the court of King Ceretic.

Abels adds to Grosjean's arguments Bede's association of Deusdedit's death with that of King Eorcenberht, which Bede gives as occurring on the same day.

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People names Ambrosius Aurelius, a Roman, as the man who led the Britons to victory at the battle, but by the 9th century the victory was attributed to King Arthur.

However, unlike contemporaries such as Aldhelm, whose Latin is full of difficulties, Bede's own text is easy to read.

The native Britons, whose Christian church survived the departure of the Romans, earn Bede's ire for refusing to help convert the Saxons ; by the end of the Historia the English, and their Church, are dominant over the Britons.

Much of the " current " history in the Historia is concerned with Wilfrid, who was a bishop in Northumbria and whose stormy career is documented not only in Bede's works, but in a Life of Wilfrid.

Bede's first abbot was Benedict Biscop, and the names " Biscop " and " Beda " both appear in a king list of the kings of Lindsey from around 800, further suggesting that Bede came from a noble family.

However, the growing importance of his family within the Northumbrian state is clear from Bede's account of Cedd's career of the founding of their monastery at Lastingham.

Oswine was also of the royal family, and arguably had a claim to the throne ; hence it has been suggested that Bede's comments here are strongly partisan.

When he was about age 4, his family moved to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and then to Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, where he grew up and attended St Bede's Roman Catholic High School in Lytham and St Mary's Sixth Form in Blackpool.

Bede's extensive use of miracles is disconcerting to the modern reader who thinks of Bede as a more or less reliable historian, but men of the time accepted miracles as a matter of course.

Stenton regarded it as one of the " small class of books which transcend all but the most fundamental conditions of time and place ", and regarded its quality as dependent on Bede's " astonishing power of co-ordinating the fragments of information which came to him through tradition, the relation of friends, or documentary evidence ...

One historian, Charlotte Behr, thinks that the Historia's account of the arrival of the Germanic invaders in Kent should not be considered to relate what actually happened, but rather relates myths that were current in Kent during Bede's time.

Whether this occurred immediately after Sæberht's death or later is impossible to determine from Bede's chronology, which has both events in the same chapter but gives neither an exact time frame nor the elapsed time between the two events.

Shortly after the Norman Conquest, Goscelin wrote a life of Mellitus, the first of several to appear around that time, but none contain any information not included in Bede's earlier works.

by the time of Bede's account in 731, the Northumbrians had enjoyed an unbroken relationship with Galloway for a century or longer, beginning with the Northumbrian predecessor state of Bernicia.

In this system the year 0 is equivalent to 1 BC in Bede's system, and is a leap year, though in actuality there were no leap years in the actual calendar at this time due to the leap year error.

Bede says that Æthelfrith's victory was so great that the Irish kings in Britain would not make war on the English again, right up to Bede's own time.

Around the same time Bede's own remains were stolen from Monkwearmouth-Jarrow for Durham, by a " notably underhand trick ", and placed in Cuthbert's coffin, where they remained until 1104.

After this defeat, according to Bede, the Irish kings in Britain would not make war against the English again, right up to Bede's own time ( 130 years later ).

Bede's description of Coifi is that of the chief of priests in Northumbria ; the fact that he is the chief priest suggests that there was some sort of organised pagan priesthood in existence during Coifi's time.

Hild Bede's Chapel holds services twice a week during term time on a Wednesday evening and Sunday morning to which members of the public are invited to attend.

One historian, Charlotte Behr, feels that the Historia's account of the arrival of the Germanic invaders in Kent should not be considered to relate what actually happened, but rather relates myths that were current in Kent during Bede's time.

From the time of the school's move to Alexandra Road South, St Bede's College supported the nearby St Bede's Mission, and priests on the school's staff worked to provide for the spiritual needs of the Catholic population in Whalley Range.

When he and his brothers saw Mellitus ( d. 624 ), bishop of London, giving the eucharist to the people in church, they said to him, so it was commonly believed in the Venerable Bede's time, " Why do you not offer us the white bread that you used to give to our father Saba, for so they called him, and which you still give to the people?