Queen Æthelburh founded a convent at Lyminge and it is assumed that Hilda remained with the Queen-Abbess. Paulinus accompanied Hilda and Queen Æthelburh and her companions to the Queen's home in Kent. In 633, Northumbria was overrun by the neighbouring pagan King of Mercia, at which time King Edwin fell in battle. In 627, King Edwin was baptised on Easter Day, 12 April, along with his entire court, which included the 13-year-old Hilda, in a small wooden church hastily constructed for the occasion near the site of the present York Minster. As queen, Æthelburh continued to practice her Christianity and no doubt influenced her husband's thinking as her mother Bertha had influenced her father. Augustine's mission in England was based in Kent, and is referred to as the Gregorian mission after the pope who sent him. As part of the marriage contract, Aethelburh was allowed to continue her Roman Christian worship and was accompanied to Northumbria with her chaplain, Paulinus of York, a Roman monk sent to England in 601 to assist Augustine of Canterbury. In 625, the widowed Edwin married the Christian princess Æthelburh of Kent, daughter of King Æthelberht of Kent and the Merovingian princess Bertha of Kent. Hilda was brought up at King Edwin's court. He created the Kingdom of Northumbria and took its throne. In 616, Edwin killed Æthelfrith, the son of Æthelric of Bernicia, in battle. When Hilda was still an infant, her father was poisoned while in exile at the court of the Brittonic king of Elmet in what is now West Yorkshire. She was the second daughter of Hereric, nephew of Edwin, King of Deira and his wife, Breguswīþ.
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He documented much of the Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.Īccording to Bede, Hilda was born in 614 into the Deiran royal household. The source of information about Hilda is the Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede in 731, who was born approximately eight years before her death. An important figure in the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, she was abbess at several monasteries and recognised for the wisdom that drew kings to her for advice. 614 – 680) was a Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby in 664. In the Anglican Use of Rome, her feast is on 23 June. Hilda as depicted in a stained glass window in Chester Cathedral
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