Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and historian (born 720)

Paul the Deacon

8th-century Benedictine monk, scribe and historian

Paul the Deacon, also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefridus, Barnefridus, or Winfridus, and sometimes suffixed Cassinensis, was a Benedictine monk, scribe, and historian of the Lombards.