Saint Hildelith | |
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| Abbess | |
| Died | ~716 |
| Feast | 22 December (Martyrologium Anglicanum), 24 March.[1] |
Hildelith of Barking, also known as Hildilid or Hildelitha, was an 8th-century Christian saint,[2] from Anglo-Saxon England but was of foreign origin.[1]
Very little is known of her life; however, she is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript,[3] and the Life of St Hildelith written in 1087 by the Medieval Benedictine hagiographical writer Goscelin.[4] She was abbess of the nunnery at Barking in England.[5] She was also the superior to Cwenburh of Wimborne prior to that saint's founding of Wimborne Abbey.
- ^ a b Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge. . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. p. 386.
- ^ The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
- ^ Stowe MS 944, British Library
- ^ M.L. Colker, Lives of the female saints of Barking Abbey, "Texts of Jocelyn of Canterbury which relate to the history of Barking Abbey." Studia Monastica 7.2 (1965). 383-460.
- ^ 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.