Hildegard von Bingen (Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages)
Early Life
Born in 1098 in Bermersheim bei Alzey, Rheinhessen (in modern Germany), Hildegard von Bingen was the tenth and last child of Hildebert von Bermersheim, a knight in the service of Meginhard, Count of Spanheim, and his wife, Mechtild. At her birth, her parents consecrated Hildegard to God as a tithe. As early as the age of three, Hildegard had her first vision of a dazzling white light, which she was later to call the umbra viventis lucis (shadow of the living Light), which appeared to her as reflected in a fons vitae (shining pool). Other visions...
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