Wilfrid did not respond to the accusation, but a monk present relayed the episode to Bede, who replied within a few days to the monk, writing a letter setting forth his defence and asking that the letter be read to Wilfrid also.

Completed in about 731 ,, Bede was aided in writing this book by Albinus, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.

Bede is also concerned to show the unity of the English, despite the disparate kingdoms that still existed when he was writing.

Bede notes that the native Old English month Ēostur-monath ( Old English " Ēostre-month ") was equivalent to the month of April, yet that feasts held in the goddess's honor during Ēostur-monath had gone out of use by the time of his writing and had been replaced with the Christian custom of the " Paschal season ".

Bede adds that a monument bearing Horsa's name stood in east Kent at the time of his writing.

The kings of the Picts when Bede was writing were Bridei and Nechtan, sons of Der Ilei, who indeed claimed the throne through their mother Der Ilei, daughter of an earlier Pictish king.

Bede, a Northumbrian, writing around the year 730, remarks that " the old ( that is, the continental ) Saxons have no king, but they are governed by several ealdormen ( or satrapa ) who, during war, cast lots for leadership but who, in time of peace, are equal in power.

He was given a strongly positive assessment by the historian Bede, writing a little less than a century after Oswald's death, who regarded Oswald as a saintly king ; it is also Bede who is the main source for present-day historical knowledge of Oswald.

In writing of one miracle associated with Oswald, Bede gives some indication of how Oswald was regarded in conquered lands: years later, when his niece Osthryth moved his bones to Bardney Abbey in Lindsey, its inmates initially refused to accept them, " though they knew him to be a holy man ", because " he was originally of another province, and had reigned over them as a foreign king ", and thus " they retained their ancient aversion to him, even after death ".

One suggested interpretation is that since Bede was writing during Æthelbald's reign, the original seven he listed were essentially those kings who could be seen as prototypes of Æthelbald in their domination of England south of the Humber.

The author of a continuation of Dionysius's Computus, writing in 616, described Dionysius as a " most learned abbot of the city of Rome ", and the Venerable Bede accorded him the honorific abbas, which could be applied to any monk, especially a senior and respected monk, and does not necessarily imply that Dionysius ever headed a monastery ; indeed, Dionysius's friend Cassiodorus stated in Institutiones that he was still only a monk late in life.

While Stephen's writing has come under more criticism than Bede ’ s, the account found in the Life of Wilfrid reveals political factors that may have affected the Synod alongside the religious controversies described by Bede.

Edwin's renown comes largely from his treatment at some length by Bede, writing from an uncompromisingly English and Christian perspective, and rests on his belated conversion to Christianity.

Bede, writing in the early 8th century, reports that Paulinus wished to convert the Northumbrians, as well as provide religious services to the new queen.

The historian Bede, writing in the next century, portrayed Oswald as a saintly figure in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ; his desire to portray Oswald in a positive light may have led him to omit mention of Oswald's aggressive warfare.

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 ).

Bede, writing about a century after Cadwallon's death, describes Edwin, the most powerful king in Britain, conquering the Brythonic kingdom of Elmet ( what is now western Yorkshire ) and ejecting its king, Cerdic.

He criticized Geoffrey for writing a history that conflicted with the accounts found in the writing of Bede.

However, as there are no surviving documents to indicate how these people described themselves, the most that can be said is that by the time Bede was writing ( early 8th century ), the phrase " West Saxons " had come into use by scholars.

This Anonymous Life of Saint Cuthbert was revised on Eadfrith's orders by Bede, writing around 720, to produce both prose and verse lives.

Ælle was the first king recorded by the 8th century chronicler Bede to have held " imperium ", or overlordship, over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

The 8th Century English historian Bede disagrees with Gildas, and states that the Saxon invasions continued after the battle of Mons Badonicus, including also Jutish and Anglic expeditions, resulting in a swift overrunning of the entirety of South-Eastern Britain, and the foundation of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples ; from the 4th century Gothic language it appears in the month name, and, in the 8th century, the English historian Bede wrote that the Anglo-Saxon calendar included the months geola or giuli corresponding with either modern December or December and January.

The noted 8th century author Bede wrote both a verse and a prose life of St Cuthbert around 720.

In the 8th century, a famous epigram attributed to the Venerable Bede celebrated the symbolic significance of the statue in a prophecy that is variously quoted: Quamdiu stat Colisæus, stat et Roma ; quando cadet colisæus, cadet et Roma ; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus (" as long as the Colossus stands, so shall Rome ; when the Colossus falls, Rome shall fall ; when Rome falls, so falls the world ").

For example during eight centuries the calendar belonging to the Christian era, which era was taken in use in the 8th century by Bede, was the Julian calendar, but after the year 1582 it was the Gregorian calendar.

The Rugini were only mentioned once, in a list of tribes still to be Christianised drawn up by the English monk Bede ( Beda venerabilis ) in his Historia ecclesiastica of the early 8th century.

The grammar was quoted by several writers in Britain of the 8th century-Aldhelm, Bede, Alcuin-and was abridged or largely used in the next century by Hrabanus Maurus of Fulda and Servatus Lupus of Ferrières.

The monk Bede, who wrote in the 8th century, considered the Mercians to be descended from the Angles, one of the invading groups ; the Saxons and Jutes settled in the south of Britain, while the Angles settled in the north.

Bede, in the 8th century, said that the Wantsum – meaning Wantsum Channel – was three furlongs wide (), and in 1414 there was still a ferry crossing the Wantsum at Sarre, but by 1550 Thanet was no longer an island.

The modern English term " Easter " is the direct continuation of Old English Ēastre, whose role as a goddess is attested solely by Bede in the 8th century.

At the opening of the 8th century Aldhelm included a brief account of her life among the virgins praised in De laude virginitatis, and in the following century the Venerable Bede included her in his Martyrology.

In the 8th century, the Anglo-Saxon historian Bede the Venerable used another Latin term, " ante uero incarnationis dominicae tempus " (" the time before the Lord's true incarnation ", equivalent to the English " before Christ "), to identify years before the first year of this era.

The 8th century spelling ( Bede ) was " Tilaburg ", and the spelling in Domesday was " Tilberia ".

The story became widespread after it was repeated in the 8th century by Bede, who added the detail that after Eleuterus granted Lucius ' request, the Britons followed their king in conversion and maintained the Christian faith until the Diocletianic Persecution of 303.

Over the 6th century, however, these different groups began to coalesce into stratified societies across England, roughly corresponding to the later Angle and Saxon kingdoms recorded by Bede in the 8th century.

The first history of medieval England was written by Bede in the 8th century ; many more accounts of contemporary and ancient history followed, usually termed chronicles.

The conquests by the royal house of Gewisse in the 7th and 8th centuries led to the establishment of the Kingdom of Wessex, and Bede treated the two names as interchangeable.

18 ), formerly known as the Leningrad Bede, is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscript, a near-contemporary version of Bede's 8th century history, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Ecclesiastical History of the English People ).

British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II, or the Tiberius Bede, is an 8th century illuminated manuscript of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

It is one of only four surviving 8th century manuscripts of Bede, another of which happens to be MS Cotton Tiberius A. XIV, produced at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow.

Rheda is attested solely by Bede in his 8th century work De temporum ratione.