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 * 1098:** Hildegard con bingen was born to Hildebert and Mechthild Burggraf con Bermersheim.


 * 1106:** Hildegard is sent to live in a Benedictine monastery at Disibodenberg.
 * 1113:** Hildegard takes her vows and become a Benedictine nun.


 * 1136:** Jutta dies and Hildegard is elected Head of her monastery by her fellow nuns.


 * 1141:** Hildegard receives a prophetic call from God demanding her to record her visions. She starts writing them down with encouragement from Volmar.


 * 1148:** Pope Eugen lll hears of Hildegard con Bingen and create a commission which visits her and reports that the vision are true. The Pope then formally recognizes Hildegard as a seer and visionary.


 * 1150:** Hildegard found the all-female Convents Rupertsberg, near Bingen.


 * 1151- 63:** Hildegard makes several teaching and missionary tours through the Rhineland and France.


 * 1165- 70:** Hildegard found the all-female Convent Elbingen, near Rudesheim, and goes on more teaching and missionary tours throughout Europe.


 * 1178:** Hildegard runs into conflicts with the Church for refusing to have the body of an excommunicated man who had been buried in consecrated ground dug up. The Church rules that she is not allowed to receive the sacraments or sing the divine office.


 * 1179:** The Church reverses the ruling against her that spring and on September 17, Hildegard von Bingen dies at the age of 81.