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Bede states that when Æthelberht died in 616 he had reigned for fifty-six years, placing his accession in 560.
Bede also says that Æthelberht died twenty-one years after his baptism.
It also is possible that Bede had the date of Æthelberht ’ s death wrong ; if, in fact, Æthelberht died in 618, this would be consistent with his baptism in 597, which is in accord with the tradition that Augustine converted the king within a year of his arrival.
If Bede is interpreted literally, the marriage would have had to take place before 567, when Charibert died.
Bede records Justus as having died on 10 November, but does not give a year, although it is likely to have between 627 and 631.
Bede wrote that Saint Ninian ( confused by some with Saint Finnian of Moville, who died c. 589 ), had converted the southern Picts.
This could conflict with Bede's saintly portrayal of Oswald, since an aggressive war could hardly qualify as a just war, perhaps explaining why Bede is silent on the cause of the war — he says only that Oswald died " fighting for his fatherland "— as well as his failure to mention other offensive warfare Oswald is presumed to have engaged in between Heavenfield and Maserfield.
Bede says that the spot where he died came to be associated with miracles, and people took dirt from the site, which led to a hole being dug as deep as a man's height.
* The Venerable Bede, Anglo-Saxon theologian, historian, and chronologist ( approximate date of birth ) ( died 735 )
Oswald died in battle against Penda of Mercia at the Battle of Maserfield, dated by Bede to 5 August 642.
In the early 670s, Cenwealh of Wessex died, and perhaps as a result of the stress caused by Wulfhere's military activity the West Saxon kingdom fragmented and came to be ruled by underkings, according to Bede.
Swithhelm of the East Saxons also died in 664 ; he was succeeded by his two sons, Sigehere and Sæbbi, and Bede describes their accession as " rulers ... under Wulfhere, king of the Mercians ".
In 726, Ine abdicated, with no obvious heir and, according to Bede, left his kingdom to " younger men " in order to travel to Rome, where he died ; his predecessor, Cædwalla, had also abdicated to go to Rome.
Bede reports a number of miracles attributed to Oswald's bones and to the spot where he died.
Ēostre is attested by Bede in his 8th-century work De temporum ratione, where Bede states that during Ēosturmōnaþ ( the equivalent to the month of April ) feasts were held in Eostre's honor among the pagan Anglo-Saxons, but had died out by the time of his writing, replaced by the Christian " Paschal month " ( a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus ).
Pratt died while the church was being built and was buried at St. Bede ’ s.
* Eata, ' bishop of Bernicia ', with his seat at Hexham and / or Lindisfarne, died 685, succeeded by John of Beverley ( Bede, Ecclesiastical History IV. 12 )
Bede gives the death of Cenwalh as the start of the ten-year period in which the West Saxons were ruled by these underkings ; Cenwalh is now thought to have died in about 673, so this is slightly inconsistent with Cædwalla's dates.
In Rome, he was baptised by Pope Sergius I on the Saturday before Easter ( according to Bede ), took the name Peter, and died not long afterwards, " still in his white garments ".
Eadric died the following year, and according to Bede, whose Ecclesiastical History of the English People is one of the primary sources for this period, the kingdom fell apart into disorder.
Bede, in the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, states that " On the fourteenth of July in the above mentioned year, when an eclipse was quickly followed by plague and during which Bishop Colman was refuted by the unanimous decision of the Catholics and returned to his own country, Deusdedit the sixth Archbishop of Canterbury died.
Because Bede records the death of Deusdedit shortly after he mentions the outbreak of the plague, the historian J. R. Maddicott asserts that both Deusdedit and Eorcenberht were struck suddenly with the disease and died quickly.
Initially instituted to remember students and staff of the Bede College Company who lost their lives at the Second Battle of Ypres, it now commemorates all former members of College who have died in conflicts around the world.

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King Eadbert and his brother Egbert oversaw the re-energising and re-organisation of the English church, with an emphasis on reforming the clergy and on the tradition of learning that Bede had begun.
Bede, in the Historia, gives his birthplace as " on the lands of this monastery ".
Not all of his output can be easily dated, and Bede may have worked on some texts over a period of many years.
Bede may also have worked on one of the Latin bibles that were copied at Jarrow, one of which is now held by the Laurentian Library in Florence.
Cuthbert's letter also relates a five-line poem in the vernacular that Bede composed on his deathbed, known as " Bede's Death Song ".
Depiction of the Venerable Bede ( on CLVIIIv ) from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
Although Bede is mainly studied as a historian now, in his time his works on grammar, chronology, and biblical studies were as important as his historical and hagiographical works.
For the period prior to Augustine's arrival in 597, Bede drew on earlier writers, including Solinus.
The historian Walter Goffart argues that Bede based the structure of the Historia on three works, using them as the framework around which the three main sections of the work were structured.
However, Bede, like Gregory the Great whom Bede quotes on the subject in the Historia, felt that faith brought about by miracles was a stepping stone to a higher, truer faith, and that as a result miracles had their place in a work designed to instruct.
Bede used both these approaches on occasion, but adopted a third method as his main approach to dating: the anno domini method invented by Dionysius Exiguus.
Although Bede did not invent this method, his adoption of it, and his promulgation of it in De Temporum Ratione, his work on chronology, is the main reason why it is now so widely used.
For many years, early Anglo-Saxon history was essentially a retelling of the Historia, but recent scholarship has focused as much on what Bede did not write as what he did.
Bede wrote homilies not only on the major Christian seasons such as Advent, Lent, or Easter, but on other subjects such as anniversaries of significant events.
Bede sometimes included in his theological books an acknowledgement of the predecessors on whose works he drew.
This was based on parts of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, and Bede also include a chronology of the world which was derived from Eusebius, with some revisions based on Jerome's translation of the bible.
In about 723, Bede wrote a longer work on the same subject, On the Reckoning of Time, which was influential throughout the Middle Ages.
His works were so influential that late in the 9th century Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, wrote that " God, the orderer of natures, who raised the Sun from the East on the fourth day of Creation, in the sixth day of the world has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth ".
Bede dedicated this work to Cuthbert, apparently a student, for he is named " beloved son " in the dedication, and Bede says " I have laboured to educate you in divine letters and ecclesiastical statutes " Another textbook of Bede's is the De orthographia, a work on orthography, designed to help a medieval reader of Latin with unfamiliar abbreviations and words from classical Latin works.

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