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which he had founded at Barking. Hildilid succeeded her pupil as the abbess at some date later than 692, if we accept the charter of Æthelred to Æthelburga given under that date (Kemble, Codex Dipl. i. 39). According to another account it must have been after the death of Earconwald (693), who died
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mentions Hildilid as the original source for his Vision of the Monk of Wenlock, but he does not indicate whether she was at the time still living or dead. She was abbess until about 700 
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speaks of Hildelith's long rule, of her translation of the bones of saints into the church of St. Mary and of a miraculous cure of a blind man which took place in her time.
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speaks of her long rule and says she lived to a great age and historian Katie Bugyis states that Hildelith died sometime after 686. A letter dated to 716 from
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William Page & J. Horace Round, ed. (1907). 'Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey of Barking', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 2. pp. 115–122.
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Hollis, Stephanie. Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church: Sharing A Common Fate. Rochester: Boydell, 1992. p259.
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in 1833 found human burials and Anglo-Saxon artefacts, several of which, in consultation with the
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Records of Civilization: Sources & Studies 31. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940, 25.
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The Care of Nuns: The Ministries of Benedictine Women in England During the Central Middle Ages
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which relate to the history of Barking Abbey." Studia Monastica 7.2 (1965). 383-460.
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1873. A Handbook for Travellers in Durham and Northumberland. J. Murray, page 116
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Hist. Eccl. iv. 10 Bædæ Hist. Eccl. and Florence of Worcester in Engl. Hist. Soc
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It is not known who replaced her as the next known abbess is
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Very little is known of her life; however, she is known to
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and she may have died about 725 AD, being buried in
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is said to have engaged Hildelith to instruct his sister
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Christian
saint
Anglo-Saxon England
history
hagiography
Secgan Manuscript
Medieval
Benedictine
hagiographical writer
Goscelin
nunnery
Barking
England
Cwenburh
Wimborne
Wimborne Abbey
Earconwald
Æthelburh
monastery
Florence of Worcester
Bede
Wulfhild
Norman Invasion
double monastery
Bede
Saint Boniface
Eadburga
Minster

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