Bede says virtually nothing about his early life and very little external evidence exists. This would mean he was born in Bernicia, the northernmost of the two Northumbrian kingdoms (Bernicia and Deira were already united into the Kingdom of Northumbria by the time of his birth), in what is now Sunderland. Bede was born in either 672 or 673 CE he claims to have been born on the very grounds of the monastery of Jarrow. Very little is known about Bede's life outside of what he himself writes in the final chapter of the Historia Ecclesiastica. For this reason, he is remembered by some as the 'Father of English History.' Life His most famous work, the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ( Ecclesiastical History of the English People), has been a vital source for the study of early English history for centuries. His work was extremely influential in the generations after his death. Bede was a prolific writer and many of his works have survived to the present day. He was a monk at the double monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow. He is at times referred to as the Venerable Bede or Bede the Venerable. 673-735 CE) was an English monk, historian, and scholar who lived in the Kingdom of Northumbria.
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