Hilda of Whitby

Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, England

6 dated entries naming Hilda of Whitby, drawn from 6 separate years between 614 CE and 1119 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

614Hilda of Whitby, abbess and saint (approximate date)source
647Hilda of Whitby, age 33, is persuaded by Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne, to enter the monastic life at Hartlepool Abbey (Northumbria).source
657Hilda, Anglo-Saxon abbess, founds a monastery at Streaneshalch, on the Yorkshire coast at Whitby (England).source
672Cædmon, Anglo-Saxon poet, writes a nine-line hymn on the Creation. A onetime illiterate herdsman, he becomes a monk under the rule of Hilda of Whitby, where he will turn various biblical themes into vernacular poetry (approximate date).source
680Hilda of Whitby, Northumbrian abbess and saintsource

12th century

1119Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, grants and confirms the church of St. Hilda of Middlesbrough to Whitby.source

Hilda of Whitby

7th century

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