Editing Battle of Badon (section)

===Bede===
The battle is next mentioned in an 8th-century text of [[Bede]]'s ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]'' (''Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum''),<ref>The "[[Tiberius Bede]]" or C text. [[British Library]] MS Cotton Tiberius C.II. {{in lang|la}}</ref> which describes the "siege of Mount Badon, when they made no small slaughter of those invaders," as occurring 44 years after the first [[Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain]]. Bede refers to Ambrosius Aurelianus as the leader of the Britons at that battle, whose parents had perished 'in the storm' and who were 'of the royal race'.<ref>Bede. ''The [[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]'', I.xvi.</ref><ref>L. ''...usque ad annum obsessionis Badonici montis quando non minimas eisdem hostibus strages dabant quadragesimo circiter & quarto anno adventus eorum in Britaniam.''</ref> Since Bede places that arrival just before, during or just after the joint reign in Rome of [[Marcian]] and [[Valentinian III]] in AD 449{{ndash}}456,{{efn|Per Bede's account. The actual dates of their reign were AD 450–455.<ref>Bede, I.xv.</ref>}} he must have considered Badon to have taken place between 493 and 500. Bede then puts off discussion of the battle {{ndash}} "But more of this hereafter" {{ndash}} only to seemingly never return to it.

Bede does later include an extended account of [[Germanus of Auxerre|Saint Germanus of Auxerre]]'s victory over the Saxons and [[Picts]] in a mountain valley (traditionally placed at [[Mold, Flintshire|Mold]] in [[Flintshire]] in northeast Wales), which he credits with curbing the threat of invasion for a generation.<ref name=b20>Bede, I.xx.</ref> However, as the victory is described as having been accomplished bloodlessly, it was presumably a different occasion from Badon. Accepted at face value, Saint Germanus' involvement would also place the battle around AD 430, although Bede's chronology shows no knowledge of this.