My English Heritage guide to Whitby notes that Hilda brought a community to
the site in 657 to resettle the site of "what may have been, in the
twilight empire, a Roman coastal fort or signal sation."
Arlene Hilfer
At 05:24 PM 11/17/98 GMT0BST, you wrote:
>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:46:27 +0000 (BST)
>Subject: FEAST 17 November
>From: CA Muessig <[log in to unmask]>
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>* Hilda, virgin (680)
>- she was head of double monastery of monks and nuns at
>Streaneshalch, also known as Whitby: there, the great synod of 664
>was held; her name appears in the calendar of St Willibrord, written
>at the beginning of the eighth century
>
>Sorry - an earlier attempt by me to comment on this got sent to the
>mailing list by mistake before I had actually written anything.
>Bede's dating of Hild's career poses several problems - is there
>anything recent in print about them?
>Bede's dating for her birth and death don't necessarily seem to be
>problematic - obviously her father must have died before Edwin was
>able to return from exile and become king in 616, and presumably Hild
>did die in 680. This means that Hild could, as Bede says, have been
>66 (a double perfect age) at death.
>What is trickier is when she decided to become a nun. Bede says this
>was half way through her life, at 33 (perfect age), which would be in
>about 647. But he says that at this point she spent time in E. Anglia
>wondering about whether to go to Chelles to become a nun there. But
>Chelles was surely founded by Balthild - and since it was on
>Merovingian royal property it could only have been founded once
>Balthild married Clovis II - and the marriage apparently happened
>soon after 648. Presumably Balthild didn't found her nunnery
>immediately after she became queen, but slightly later. Does anyone
>have any ideas? and is there any information to help with dating for
>the foundation of Chelles? And when was Streaneshealh founded?
>
>Julia Barrow
>
Arlene Catherine Hilfer
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