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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 460 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HILDA, ST , strictly HILD (614-68o), was the daughter of Hereric, a See also:nephew of See also:Edwin, See also:king of See also:Northumbria. She was converted to See also:Christianity before 633 by the See also:preaching of See also:Paulinus. According to See also:Bede she took the See also:veil in 614, when See also:Oswio was king of Northumbria and See also:Aidan See also:bishop of Lindisfarne, and spent a See also:year in See also:East Anglia, where her See also:sister Hereswith had married IEthelhere, who was to succeed his See also:brother See also:Anna, the reigning king. In 648 or 649 Hilda was recalled to Northumbria by Aidan, and lived for a year in a small monastic community See also:north of the See also:Wear. She then succeeded Hein, the foundress, as See also:abbess of See also:Hartlepool, where she remained several years. From Hartle-See also:pool Hilda moved io See also:Whitby, where in 657 she founded the famous See also:double monastery which in the See also:time of the first abbess included among its members five future bishops, See also:Bosa, 'Etta, Oftfor, See also:John and See also:Wilfrid II. as well as the poet Cxdmon. Hilda exercised See also:great See also:influence in Northumbria, and ecclesiastics from all over See also:Christian See also:England and from See also:Strathclyde and See also:Dalriada visited her monastery. In 655 after the See also:battle of Winward Oswio entrusted his daughter 1Elfled to Hilda, with whom she went to Whitby. At the See also:synod of Whitby in 664 Hilda sided with See also:Colman and Cedd against Wilfrid. In spite of the defeat of the See also:Celtic party she remained hostile to Wilfrid until 679 at any See also:rate. Hilda died in 68o after a painful illness lasting for seven years. See Bede, Hist. eccl.

(ed. C. Plummer, See also:

Oxford, 1869), iii. 24, 25, iv. 23; Eddins, Vita Wilfridi (Raine, Historians of See also:Church of See also:York, Rolls See also:Series, vol. i., 1879), c. liv.

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