[1] In 1065, the year before Edward the Confessor died and the Norman Conquest, her parents gave her aged seven to Wilton Abbey.
The Abbey had been rebuilt in stone due to the Royal patronage of Edith of Wessex.
[2] Goscelin of Canterbury was one of her mentors and he kept in contact with her after she left the abbey in 1080, even though he complained about not being consulted.
Eve had decided to move to France to live as a recluse at Angers, and after near Chalonnes-sur-Loire.
Through the window were passed books including the Confessions of Augustine and his City of God.