The Venerable Bede says in The Reckoning of Time that this month Eostur is the root of the word Easter.

Bede says nothing of his origins, but his connections with men of noble ancestry suggest that his own family was well-to-do.

Bede had another brush with Wilfrid, for the historian himself says that he met Wilfrid, sometime between 706 and 709, and discussed Æthelthryth, the abbess of Ely.

Bede says: " Prayers are hindered by the conjugal duty because as often as I perform what is due to my wife I am not able to pray.

The historian Walter Goffart says of Bede that he " holds a privileged and unrivalled place among first historians of Christian Europe ".

He says relatively little about the achievements of Mercia and Wessex, omitting, for example, any mention of Boniface, a West Saxon missionary to the continent of some renown and of whom Bede had almost certainly heard, though Bede does discuss Northumbrian missionaries to the continent.

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.

Bede also says that Æthelberht died twenty-one years after his baptism.

Bede says that Æthelberht received Bertha " from her parents ".

Bede says that Horsa was killed in battle against the Britons and was thereafter buried in east Kent.

The medieval chronicler Bede says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope Gregory I to report on the success of converting King Æthelberht of Kent and to carry a letter with questions for the pope.

Bede says that Mellitus was exiled because he refused the brothers ' request for a taste of the sacramental bread.

In fact, Bede merely says that the Picts used matrilineal succession in exceptional cases.

Oswald was apparently born in or around the year 604, since Bede says that he was killed at the age of 38 in 642 ; Æthelfrith's acquisition of Deira is also believed to have occurred around 604.

Bede says that Oswald held imperium for the eight years of his rule ( both Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle say that Oswald's reign was actually considered to be nine years, the ninth year being accounted for by assigning to Oswald the year preceding his rule, " on account of the heathenism practised by those who had ruled that one year between him and Edwin "), and was the most powerful king in Britain.

Oswald apparently controlled the Kingdom of Lindsey, given the evidence of a story told by Bede regarding the moving of Oswald's bones to a monastery there ; Bede says that the monks rejected the bones initially because Oswald had ruled over them as a foreign king.

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 Ninian was a Briton who had been instructed in Rome ; that he made his church of stone, which was unusual among the Britons ; that his episcopal see was named after Saint Martin of Tours ; that he preached to and converted the southern Picts ; that his base was at " hwit ærn ", which was in the province of the Bernicians ; and that he was buried there, along with many other saints.

Bede says that Alhfrith alone nominated Wilfrid, and that Oswiu subsequently proposed an alternative candidate, " imitating the actions of his son ".

Edwin's zeal, so Bede says, led to Raedwald's son Eorpwald also converting.

In 597 Augustine of Canterbury is said, by the Venerable Bede, to have landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet, before founding Britain's second Christian monastery in Canterbury ( the first was founded fifty years earlier by Saint Columba on Eilean na Naoimh, in the Hebrides ): a cross marks the spot.

Bede reports a number of miracles attributed to Oswald's bones and to the spot where he died.

Bede also followed Eusebius in taking the Acts of the Apostles as the model for the overall work: where Eusebius used the Acts as the theme for his description of the development of the church, Bede made it the model for his history of the Anglo-Saxon church.

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 ).

Bede stated that the Isle of Wight was settled not by Saxons but by Jutes, who also settled on the Hampshire coast, where they were known as the Meonwara, and that these areas were only acquired by Wessex in the later 7th century.

It is supposed that Stirling is the fortress of Iuddeu or Urbs Giudi where Oswiu of Northumbria was besieged by Penda of Mercia in 655, as recorded in Bede and contemporary annals.

Since William Camden, Burgh Castle has been suggested as the site of " Cnobheresburg ", the unknown place ( a castrum or fort ) in East Anglia, where in about 630 the first Irish monastery in southern England was founded by Saint Fursey as part of the Hiberno-Scottish mission described by Bede.

Other royal sites included Campodunum in Elmet ( perhaps Barwick ), Sancton in Deira and Goodmanham, the site where the pagan high priest Coifi destroyed the idols according to Bede.

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.

A few important Anglian centres in Bernicia bear names of British origin or are known by British names elsewhere: Bamburgh is called Din Guaire in the Historia Brittonum ; Dunbar ( where Saint Wilfrid was once imprisoned ) represents Dinbaer ; and the name of Coldingham is given by Bede as Coludi urbs (" town of Colud "), where Colud seems to represent the British form, possibly for the hill-fort of St Abb's Head.

This begins at the point where the Ecclesiastical History of Bede ends.

William's obvious respect for Bede is apparent even within the preface of his Gesta Regum Anglorum, where he professes his admiration for the man.

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 ).

During the Middle Ages the name was used first of all to denote Iceland, such as by Dicuil, by the Anglo-Saxon monk Venerable Bede in De ratione temporum, by the Landnámabók, by the anonymous Historia Norwegie and by the German cleric Adam of Bremen in his Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church, where they cite ancient writers ' use of Thule but also new knowledge since the end of antiquity.

The rest of the land where the Cathedral now stands became a cemetery ( Bodies from the cemetery were moved to the new Catholic cemetery at St. Bede ’ s in Rotherham and work on St Marie ’ s began ).

He then attended the College of St Hild and St Bede at the University of Durham where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law in 1981.

Bede tells us that he obtained his information about Chad and his brother, Cedd, from the monks of Lastingham, where both were abbots.

Bede tells us that he travelled first to Canterbury, where he found that Archbishop Deusdedit was dead and his replacement was still awaited.

Important monasteries existed at Whitby, where the known abbesses tended to be members of the Deiran royal family, at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, where Bede was a monk, and at Ripon.

An alternative theory is that Aust is the place where in 603, as the Venerable Bede records, Archbishop St. Augustine of Canterbury ( d. 604 ) ( not to be confused with St. Augustine of Hippo, d. 430 ) held a conference with the British bishops.

Bede died on Thursday, 26 May 735 ( Ascension Day ) and was buried at Jarrow.

Bede states that when Æthelberht died in 616 he had reigned for fifty-six years, placing his accession in 560.

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.

* 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 ".

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.