Original: Bede ( pronounced '' Bead '' \/O/ ; ; 672 \/O/ 673 -- 26 May 735 ) , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede ( ) , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth , today part of Sunderland , England , and of its companion monastery , Saint Paul 's , in modern Jarrow ( see Wearmouth-Jarrow ) , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria .
Simplified: 672 or 673 -- May 27 , 735 ) , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth , today part of Sunderland , and of its companion monastery , Saint Pauls , in modern Jarrow ( see Wearmouth-Jarrow ) , both in the English county of Durham ( now Tyne and Wear ) .