Heiu

Family: Northumbrians · Role: nun · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XXIII

Life events

• c. 678 · Heiu was consecrated by Aidan and founded the monastery of Heruteu.(Book IV · Chap. XXIII · 📍 Heruteu)
  • With: Aidan
  • “which monastery had been founded, not long before, by the pious handmaid of Christ, Heiu, who is said to have been the first woman in the province of the Northumbrians who took upon her the vows and habit of a nun, being consecrated by Bishop Aidan”

Book IV · Chap. XXIII

• sworn: Aidan “Heiu, who is said to have been the first woman in the province of the Northumbrians who took upon her the vows and habit of a nun, being consecrated by Bishop Aidan”

Also listed in Northumbrians — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.