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William of Malmesbury
English monk and chronicler (c.1095 – c.1143)
Matthew Paris
medieval English chronicler and artist (c.1200-1259)
Aldhelm
Aldhelm (, ; 25 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century. He is said to have been the son of Kenten, who was of the royal house of Wessex. He was certainly not, as his early biographer Faritius asserts, the brother of King Ine. After his death he was venerated as a saint, his feast day being the day of his death, 25 May.
John of Worcester
English monk and chronicler
William of Jumièges
Norman monk
John Lydgate
English monk and poet (c.1370–c.1451)
Roger of Wendover
early 13th-century English monk and chronicler
Ceolwulf of Northumbria
Northumbrian king, monk and saint
Symeon of Durham
12th-century monk and chronicler
Gervase of Canterbury
English chronicler
Florence of Worcester
English monk and chronicler
Richard of Devizes
English monk and chronicler
Byrhtferth
thumb|Byrhtferth's diagram with the Four elements (earth, water, air, fire), seasons, solstices, equinoxes, signs of the zodiac and ages of man. An [[Ogham inscription is in the centre. Miniature from the twelfth-century English medieval manuscript MS Oxford St John's College 17, folium 7 verso. Copy from original about 1000 AD by Byrhtferth.]] Byrhtferth (; ) was a priest and monk who lived at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire) in England. He had a deep impact on the intellectual life of later Anglo-Saxon England and wrote many computistic, hagiographic, and historic
Wigbert
thumb|Saint Wigbert and Saint Boniface. Stained glass window by Alois Plum. Wihtberht or Wigbert (May 7, 675 – August 13, 747) born in Wessex around 675, was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk and a missionary and disciple of Boniface who travelled with the latter in Frisia and northern and central Germany to convert the local tribes to Christianity. His feast day is August 13th in the Roman Catholic Church and on April 12th in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Nicholas Trivet
Anglo-Norman chronicler
Odulf of Stavoren
Odwulf of Evesham (or Odulf, Odulph, Odulfo, Odulphus; died 855) was a ninth century saint, monk and Frisian missionary.
John Douglas Main
Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk (1926–1982)
Eata of Hexham
Bishop of Lindisfarne; Bishop of Hexham; Saint
John Baconthorpe
14th-century English monk and philosopher
Lawrence of Durham
British writer
Eadberht of Lindisfarne
Bishop of Lindisfarne
Byrhthelm
Bishop of Wells; Archbishop of Canterbury
Neville Figgis
British historian and philosopher (1866–1919)
John of Wallingford
Benedictine monk at the Abbey of St Albans, associate of Matthew Paris
Jocelin de Brakelond
English monk and chronicler
Gregory Dix
English Benedictine monk (1901–1952)
Grimbald
Benedictine monk of the Abbey of Saint Bertin
Osbern of Canterbury
Benedictine hagiographer
Joseph Leycester Lyne
Anglican Benedictine monk
Eadfrith of Lindisfarne
Bishop of Lindisfarne; Saint
Sebastian Newdigate
Carthusian monk and martyr