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Aelfleda had the support of her mother's presence as well as the wise counsels of Bishop Trumwine, who had taken refuge at Streoneshalh, after having been driven from his own sphere of work by the depredations of the Picts and Scots.
We then learn that Aelfleda died at the age of fifty-nine, but from that year probably 713 a complete silence falls upon the work of the abbey; for if any records were made during the next century and a half, they have been totally lost.
Hilda, who probably died in the year 680, was succeeded by Aelfleda, the daughter of King Oswin of Northumbria, whom she had trained in the abbey, and there seems little doubt that her pupil carried on successfully the beneficent work of the foundress.
We then learn that Aelfleda died at the age of fifty-nine, but from that year probably 713 a complete silence falls upon the work of the abbey; for if any records were made during the next century and a half, they have been totally lost.
Herstan and Bertha have been very busy preparing for it, as also their children, Hermann, Ostryth, and Aelfleda. But I must go and assist in decking the church for the midnight festivity.
Hilda, who probably died in the year 680, was succeeded by Aelfleda, the daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria, whom she had trained in the abbey, and there seems little doubt that her pupil carried on successfully the beneficent work of the foundress.
Aelfleda had the support of her mother's presence as well as the wise counsels of Bishop Trumwine, who had taken refuge at Streoneshalh, after having been driven from his own sphere of work by the depredations of the Picts and Scots.
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