Ethelhild

Family: Lindsey · Role: abbess · First appears: Book III · Chap. XI

Life events

c. 642 · Dust from Oswald’s relics immediately healed a guest possessed by an unclean spirit.(Book III · Chap. XI)
- With: Oswald
- “As soon as she came with it, as she had been bidden, and was entering the hall of the house, in the inner part whereof the possessed person was writhing in torment, he suddenly became silent, and laid down his head, as if he had been falling asleep, stretching out all his limbs to rest.”

siblings with Ethelwin “called Ethelhild, the sister of the holy men, Ethelwin and Aldwin, the first of whom was bishop in the province of Lindsey, the other abbot of the monastery of Peartaneu”
siblings with Aldwin “called Ethelhild, the sister of the holy men, Ethelwin and Aldwin, the first of whom was bishop in the province of Lindsey, the other abbot of the monastery of Peartaneu”
with Osthryth (Ethelhild requested and received dust from Osthryth.) “The abbess thereupon desired that some of that health-bringing dust might be given her, and, receiving it, she tied it up in a cloth, and, putting it into a casket, returned home.”
with Osthryth (interaction) “The abbess thereupon desired that some of that health-bringing dust might be given her, and, receiving it, she tied it up in a cloth, and, putting it into a casket, returned home.”

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