Bede ( also Saint Bede , the Venerable Bede , or ( from Latin ) Beda ) , ( ca . 672 or 673 â `` 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 Paul 's , in modern Jarrow ( see Wearmouth-Jarrow ) , both in the English county of Durham ( now Tyne and Wear ) . Bede ( pronounced `` Bead '' \/ ; ; 672 \/ 673 â `` 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 .