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This title was earned mainly through his five volume book called "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum", which translates as "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People".
According to the account in Bede 's Historia ecclesiastica, he lived at the abbey of Whitby in Northumbria in the 7th century.
An edition was reprinted by the Record Commission in 1802 as Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae Auctoritate.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, II, 5. Importantly, whatever their origin or whenever they flourished, these dynasties established their claim to lordship through their links to extended kin ties.
Bede, "Preface", Historia Ecclesiastica, p. 41. The preface mentions that Ceolwulf received an earlier draft of the book; presumably Ceolwulf knew enough Latin to understand it, and he may even have been able to read it.
Boniface also gave Justus a letter congratulating him on the conversion of King "Aduluald" (probably King Eadbald of Kent), a letter which is included in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.
Eusebius had a collection of more than one hundred letters of Origen, Historia ecclesiastica, VI, xxxvi.3; Eng. transl.
Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica 5.24.1ff Nothing is known of the date of his death, which must have occurred at the end of the 2nd or the beginning of the 3rd century.
Historia Ecclesiastica 2.7; cited in Oost, "Aëtius and Majorian", p. 28. During his residence in the Eastern capital, Olybrius expressed his interest in religious matters.
Intent Bede's primary intention in writing the Historia Ecclesiastica was to show the growth of the united church throughout England.
Patrick Sims-Williams is more skeptical of the account, suggesting that Bede's Canterbury source, for which he relied on for his account of Hengist and Horsa in his work Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, had confused two separate traditions.
While the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle refer to the brother as Horsa, in the Historia Brittonum his name is simply Hors.