Bede (672/673 – 26 May 735), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was an English monk at the monastery of Saint Peter and its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, now Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey, then in the Kingdom of Northumbria. He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History of the English People gained him the title 'The Father of English History'.

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