Paul the Deacon

Dom Benedetto Bacchini OSB
Portrait of Paulus Diaconus from a 10th-century manuscript (Laurentian Library Plut. 65.35 fol. 34r)
Title	Deacon
Personal life
Born	Paulus Warnefridus c. 720s Cividale del Friuli, Kingdom of the Lombards
Died	13 April in 796, 797, 798, or 799 AD Monte Cassino, Patrimony of Saint Peter
Nationality	Lombard
Parent(s)	Warnefrid and Theodelinda
Known for	History of the Lombards
Occupation	Benedictine monk, scribe, and historian
Religious life
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Order	Benedictines
Ordination	c. 782

Paul the Deacon (c. 720s – 13 April in 796, 797, 798, or 799 AD), also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefridus, Barnefridus, or Winfridus, and sometimes suffixed Cassinensis (i.e. "of Monte Cassino"), was a Benedictine monk, scribe, and historian of the Lombards.