![]() ![]() While Bede spent most of his life in the monastery, he travelled to several abbeys and monasteries across the British Isles, even visiting the archbishop of York and King Ceolwulf of Northumbria. ![]() Both of them survived a plague that struck in 686 and killed a majority of the population there. ![]() Bede ( / b iː d/ BEED Old English: Bǣda, Bēda 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( Latin: Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England).īorn on lands belonging to the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow in present-day Tyne and Wear, Bede was sent to Monkwearmouth at the age of seven and later joined Abbot Ceolfrith at Jarrow. ![]()
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