What Does the Name Bede Mean
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Bede Name Meaning
HistoryModern form of the Old English name Baeda, possibly related to Old English bed "prayer". Saint Bede, called the Venerable Bede, was an 8th-century historian, scholar and Doctor of the Church.
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