Streaneshalch
Monastery · two years after Bede’s own 655 · Whitby Abbey
Hild's double house, built on land Oswy gave in thanksgiving for the Winwaed. Within a decade it held the synod at which the Northumbrian church settled its Easter, and it schooled five bishops.
The year is derived; the date above says from what.
Who
- Hild of Whitby Head · 657–680 · Bede gives her the whole chapter. She was the daughter of Hereric, nephew to King Edwin, and came to the faith with him under Paulinus; she ruled Heruteu first, then built or ordered the house at Streaneshalch, where she taught that none should be rich and none poor and all things be held in common. Kings and princes asked her advice, and five bishops came out of that monastery — Bosa, Hedda, Oftfor, John and Wilfrid. She died on 17 November 680, aged sixty-six, having spent exactly half her life in the secular habit and half in the monastic.
Where
- Whitby Abbey the site; this page is the community that sat on it
Other monasteries
- Monte Cassino about 529 (Gardner, 1911 — not Gregory) · Abbey of Monte Cassino
- Clonmacnoise 547 · Clonmacnoise
- Iona 565 · Iona
- Lindisfarne 635 (the edition’s margin; Bede does not date it) · Lindisfarne
- Bercingum before 674, the edition’s date for Earconwald’s consecration · Barking Abbey
- The monastery of St Peter and St Paul 674, the second indiction and the fourth year of King Egfrid · Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey
- Kellia no year is recorded · Kellia
- The Monastery of the Caves no year is recorded · Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- Nitria no year is recorded · Nitria
- Sublacum no year is recorded · Subiaco
After Ecclesiastical History of the English People · HE III.24 (two years after the marginal 655).