11 April 627 A.D. (Northumbrian) Hild Was Baptized—Avid Bible Reader & Favorer of Celtic Churchmanship
11 April 627 A.D. (Northumbrian) Hild Was Baptized—Avid Bible Reader & Favorer of Celtic Churchmanship Editors. “Thirteen-Year-Old Hild Was Baptized.” Christianity.com. Apr 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/601-900/thirteen-year-old-hild-was-baptized-11629722.html . Accessed 10 Apr 2015. Hild was a noblewoman closely related to the kings of Northumbria. Not much is known about her early years, beyond the fact she was baptized at the age of thirteen on this day, April 11, 627. This was part of a mass baptism, common to the Middle Ages. Up to that time, King Edwin and the court of Northumbria had been pagans. Following the king's conversion, Paulinus baptized him and most of his court, including the girl Hild. Hild became a nun twenty years later at the age of 33 and spent a year in France with a sister who also had donned the religious habit. St. Aiden, an apostle to Northumbria, urged her to return to her native land and placed her...