Beardaneu, see Bardney.
Bebba, Queen, 147, 168.
Bebbanburh, or Bebburgh, see Bamborough.
Bede, or Beda, the author, called “Venerable,” xxi, xxxiv;
account of his life, xxxiii-xliii;
his family, xxxiii;
born near Wearmouth, xxxiii, xxxiv, 386;
his instructors, xxxiii, xxxiv, 222, 257 n., 386;
his ordination, xxxiii, 273 n., 386;
his life spent in the Monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, xxxiii, xxxiv, 137 n., 386;
dates of his birth and death, xxxiv;
his autobiography, xxxiv, 386-389;
his diligence, xxxiv;
his eyes dim in age, xxxiv;
his death, xix, xxxiv, xxxix-xliii, 391;
his epitaph, xxxiv;
his learning, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi;
his style, xxxvi;
visits Lindisfarne, xxxvi;
visits York, xxxvi;
Egbert his pupil, xxxvi;
his “Epistola ad Ecgbertum,” xxxvi, 273 n., 342 n.;
his influence, xxxvi;
his last illness, xxxvi, xxxix, xl, xlii, xliii;
his “Life of Cuthbert” in prose and verse, xxxvi, 4 n., 260 n., 285 n., 287 n., [pg 400] 288 n., 291, 309;
story of his visit to Rome, xxxvi;
story of his residence at Cambridge, xxxvi;
his writings, xxxvii, 311 n.;
list of his literary works and compilations, 386-389;
his studies, xxxvii, 386-389;
his duties, xxxvii;
his character, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix;
his zeal for Catholic usages, xxxviii, xxxix;
his admiration for Aidan, xxxix;
dictates to Wilbert his translation of St. John and St. Isidore, xlii, xliii;
buried at Jarrow, xl;
his relics stolen by Elfred and carried to Durham, xl;
translated with those of St. Cuthbert to the new Cathedral, xl;
a shrine erected to him by Hugh de Puisac, xl;
his chronology corrected, 9, 11, 12, 13 n., 20 n., 22 n., 23 n., 27 n., 28 n., 29 n., 42 n., 63 n., 68 n., 75 n., 94 n., 241 n., 254 n., 287 n., 314 n.;
his “Martyrology,” editorial references to, 27 n., 99 n., 265 n.;
his friendship for Acca, 161 n.;
his “De Temporibus,” 170;
his “De temporum Ratione,” 170, 227 n.;
his “History of the Abbots,” 213 n., 215 n., 257 n., 287 n.;
uses the Caesarean system of Indictions, 227 n.;
his “De Locis Santis,” 337 n., 338 n.;
said to have written Ceolfrid's Letter to Naiton, 360 n.;
his “Expositio in Marci Evangelium,” 364 n.;
his “Ecclesiastical History,” see Ecclesiastical.
Bega, Irish Saint, 271 n., 275 n.
Begu, a nun, has a vision of Hilda's death, 275, 276.
Belgium, or Belgic Gaul, 5, 13 n.
Benedict I, Pope, 83.
Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, 215 n., 359, 389;
Bede trained under, xxxiii, 386;
founds the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, xxxiv, 257;
his library, xxxv, 257 n., 287 n.;
temporary abbot of SS. Peter and Paul's Monastery, 216 n.;
goes to Rome, 257, 348;
account of, 257 n.;
brings John the Precentor back with him to Britain, 257, 258;
obtains a letter of privilege for his monastery, 257, 258;
his monastic rule, 257 n.
Benedictus Crispus, Archbishop of Milan, 313 n.
Benedictine Order of Monks, 275 n.
Beneventum, 21 n.
Benjamin, 73.
Beornred, King of Mercia, said to have murdered Ethelbald, 392.
Berct, Berctred, Brectrid or Briht, Egfrid's General, lays Ireland waste, 285, 336 n.;
slain by the Picts, 385.
Berecingum, or Barking, see Barking.
Berkshire, 10 n., 343 n.
Bernicia, History of, xxvi, 82 n., 83 n., 120, 137, 141, 147, 190;
diocese of, 244 n.
Bernicia, Bishop of, see Eata.
Bernicia, King of, see Eanfrid, Ethelric, Ida, Oswald, Oswy.
Bernwin, Wilfrid's nephew, his mission to the Isle of Wight, 252.
Bersted, Witenagemot of, 316 n.
Bertfrid, Osrid's Ealdorman, 385.
Bertgils, surnamed Boniface, see Boniface.
Bertha, daughter of Charibert, wife of Ethelbert of Kent, 46, 48, 94, 95 n., 132 n.
Berthun, Ethelwalch's Ealdorman, 251.
Berthun, Abbot of Beverley, 273 n., 302, 303, 305.
Bertwald, Archbishop of Canterbury after Theodore, xxx, xxxi, 239 n., 314, 315, 343 n., 344 n., 353 n.;
his burial place, 90;
his election and consecration, 274 n., 316, 323;
Abbot of Reculver, [pg 401] 315;
his learning, 315;
ordains Tobias, 316;
returns from the Continent, 323 n.;
reconciled to Wilfrid, 354 n., 355, 356 n.;
at the Synod on the Nidd, 356 n.;
consecrates Aldwulf, 378;
death, 378, 386.
Berwickshire, 260 n.
Betendune, see Watton.
Bethlehem, 338, 339.
Betti, a Northumbrian priest, xxvii, 180, 181.
Beverley, Inderauuda, or In the Wood of the Deiri, Monastery of, founded by John and Berthun, 273 n., 303, 307.
Beverley, Abbot of, see Berthun, John.