Event: Education/teaching, Monastic life, converting to/joining/oblationWilgils 2.giving of Willibrord 1 to brothers of Ripon (Anonymi 1136)

Scholarly Info
Description As soon as the infant [sc. Willibrord 1] had been weaned, his father [sc. Wilgils 2] handed him to the brethren of the church of Ripon (Anonymi 1136 13) to be taught in religious studies and sacred letters.
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Original Text ... tradidit eum pater Hrypensis ecclesiae fratribus relegiosis studiis et sacris litteris erudiendum ...
Date from Source As soon as Willibrord 1 had been weaned

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*It should be noted that oblates were normally given to a monastery at the age of seven. Thus technically this may not have been an act of oblation.

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