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Archaeology suggest that invaders were able to come into Britain and establish dominance with relatively small numbers. Beda Venerabilis was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Bede seems to show awareness that the identity of Angles and Saxons and presumably the Jutes although partly the result of heavy migration from certain areas in the Germanic homelands was also the product of a certain rationalization and regrouping of.

In light of these new discoveries the accounts of the primary sources from that era particularly The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Bedes Ecclesiastical. The Venerable Bede finished his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum Ecclesiastical History of the English People around 731. The popular account suggests that a monk inscribing in stone upon his tomb chiseled Here in this grave lie Bedes bones and left the job incomplete when he quit for the day.

But in one key passage part of which is reproduced above he diverges from his principal. And this is Bedes objective too. Bede was an English monk and has been canonized.

Exactly how Bede came to be called Venerable remains obscured by the passage of time. Certainly given Kents close contacts with Gaul it is possible that Æthelberht sought baptism in order to smooth his relations with the Merovingian kingdoms or to align himself with one of the factions then contending in Gaul. The large amount to specific factual information.