The Venerable Bede, or Saint Bede, was an English monk who lived in a monastery in Northumberland. He is best known for writing the Ecclesiastical History of the English . St. Bede the Venerable, Bede also spelled Baeda or Beda, (born 672/673, traditionally Monkton in Jarrow, Northumbria [England]—died May 25, 735, Jarrow; canonized 1899; feast day May 25), Anglo-Saxon theologian, historian, and chronologist. Bede was born near St. Peter and St. Paul monastery at Wearmouth-Jarrow, England. Bede was born in Northumbria, near Jarrow. He was sent there when he was three and educated by Abbots Benedict Biscop and Ceolfrid.

St. Bede (c. 672-735), known as the Venerable Bede, was an English monk, scholar, and theologian. Saint Bede was born in Monkton, Durham.

Childhood . He was born in 673 and taken to a monastery at 7 years old. Little is known of Bede's childhood, other than he was born in March of 672 to parents living on land belonging to the newly founded Monastery of St. Peter, based in Wearmouth, to which Bede was given by relatives for a monastic education when he was seven.

It … Nothing is known of his family background.

Bede /ˈbiːd/ (Old English: Bǣda, Bēda; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Bēda Venerābilis), was an English Benedictine 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). According to the information provided in the autobiographical chapter of his work ‘Historia ecclesiastica’, he was born on 672 AD. He became a monk at the monastery, was ordained when thirty, and except for a few brief visits elsewhere, spent all of his life in the monastery, devoting himself to the study of Scripture and to teaching and writing. St. Bede was probably born in Monkton, Durham. His works were the crowning cultural achievement in England in the 8th century, "the age of Bede."