As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.

Paul the Deacon ( c. 720s – 13 April probably 799 ), also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred, Barnefridus and Cassinensis, ( i. e. " of Monte Cassino "), was a Benedictine monk and historian of the Lombards.

The 15th-century monk Annio da Viterbo credited a manuscript he claimed to have found to the Chaldean historian of the 3rd century BC, Berossus, where " Pandora " was also named as a daughter-in-law of Noah ; this attempt to conjoin pagan and scriptural narrative is recognized as a forgery.

* Adémar de Chabannes, French monk, writer, historian, and musical composer

* William of Newburgh, English historian and monk ( d. 1198 )

* April 13 – Paul the Deacon, Benedictine monk and historian

* The Venerable Bede, English monk, writer and historian ( or 672 )

** Petrus Thaborita, Dutch historian and monk ( b. c. 1450 )

** Petrus Thaborita, Dutch historian and monk ( d. 1527 )

* Orderic Vitalis, monk and historian

* Orderic Vitalis, monk and historian ( approximate date )

* Adémar de Chabannes, monk and historian ( d. 1034 )

The canal's size and grandeur won it the admiration of many throughout history, including the Japanese monk Ennin ( 794 – 864 ), the Persian historian Rashid al-Din ( 1247 – 1318 ), the Korean official Choe Bu ( 1454 – 1504 ) and the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci ( 1552 – 1610 ).

* 1018-1087 Michael Psellos or Psellus a Byzantine monk, writer, philosopher, politician and historian.

* Matthew Paris ( 1200 – 1259 ), English monk and historian

There is a significant amount of information known about Cuthbert thanks to two accounts of Cuthbert ’ s life that were written shortly after his death, the first by an anonymous monk from Lindisfarne, and the second by Bede, a famous monk, historian, and theologian.

Owen was taken from her and raised by the monks and according to his nephew Henry VII's personal historian Vergil the child was raised as a monk by the name Edward Bridgewater where he lived until his death in 1502.

Michael Psellos or Psellus ( Greek: Μιχαήλ Ψελλός, Mikhaēl Psellos ) was a Byzantine monk, writer, philosopher, politician and historian.

Since nearly half a century lies between Wulfstan's death ( 1095 ) and John's final entry ( 1140 ), historian Simon Keynes has offered the tentative suggestion that Florence may have been the monk first commissioned by Wulfstan to compile material for a world chronicle and that John continued the task.

The historian Avrom Saltman suggests that, if admissions were spaced regularly throughout William's abbacy, Theobald would have become a monk in about 1117, but qualifies his estimate with the statement that 1117 " seems to be rather late ".

Frank Barlow, a historian, describes him as a " good scholar and a monk of blameless life ".

* William of Malmesbury ( c. 1080-c. 1143 ), English historian and monk

Villehardouin's account is generally read alongside that of Robert of Clari, a French knight of low station, Niketas Choniates, a high-ranking Byzantine official and historian who gives an eyewitness account, and Gunther of Pairis, a Cistercian monk who tells the story from the perspective of Abbot Martin who accompanied the Crusaders.

Aimoin ( c. 960-c. 1010 ), French chronicler, was born at Villefranche-de-Longchat about 960, and in early life entered the monastery of Fleury, where he became a monk and passed the greater part of his life.

* The main source for Columbanus's life is recorded by Jonas of Bobbio, an Italian monk who entered the monastery in Bobbio in 618, three years after the saint's death ; Jonas wrote the life c. 643.

* The monk Bede ( c. 672 – 735 ) wrote in his influential treatise on computus, The Reckoning of Time, that the Earth was round (' not merely circular like a shield spread out like a wheel, but resembl more a ball '), explaining the unequal length of daylight from " the roundness of the Earth, for not without reason is it called ' the orb of the world ' on the pages of Holy Scripture and of ordinary literature.

One heresy, Pelagianism, was originated by a British monk teaching in Rome: Pelagius lived c. 354 to c. 420 / 440.

# Fulk FitzRoy ( born c. 1092 ); a monk at Abingdon.

Saint John Climacus ( c. 7th Century AD ), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 7th century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai.

Máel Coluim mac Domnaill ( anglicised Malcolm I ) ( c. 900 – 954 ) was king of Scots ( before 943 – 954 ), becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk.

* Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus ( c. 720 – c. 799 ), Italian Benedictine monk

A Moscovite monk called Isidore used this technology to produce the first original Russian vodka c. 1430.

* Mesrop Mashtots, ( c. 361 – c. 440 ), Armenian monk, theologian and inventor of the Armenian alphabet

* 525: Having settled in Rome c. 500, Scythian monk Dionysius Exiguus invents the Anno Domini era calendar based on the estimated birth year of Jesus Christ.

* c. 401: Buddhist monk and translator of sutras, Kumarajiva into Chinese arrives in Chang ' an

It is not clear when the name changed, but by the time of the visit of the Chinese pilgrim monk, Xuanzang, c. 636 CE, it was known as Ayodhya.

Saint John of Damascus ( Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός Iōannēs ho Damaskēnos ; Latin: Iohannes Damascenus ; also known as John Damascene, Χρυσορρόας / Chrysorrhoas, " streaming with gold "— i. e., " the golden speaker ") ( c. 645 or 676 – 4 December 749 ; Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي Yuḥannā Al Demashqi ) was a Syrian monk and priest.

* St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( c. 634 – 687 ), Anglo-Saxon saint, bishop, monk and hermit

Saint Cuthbert ( c. 634 – 20 March 687 ) was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

* Job of Pochayiv ( c. 1551-1651 ), Ukrainian Orthodox monk and Eastern Orthodox saint

François Rabelais (; c. 1494 – 9 April 1553 ) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.

c. 1070-Ruodlieb ( IV 184-188 ) thought to be written by a monk near Tegernsee.