Hereward The Wake

• male

Hereward the Wake, known in his own times as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile, was an 11th century leader in the Kingdom of England who led resistance to the Norman Conquest, and was consequently labelled an outlaw. He was an Anglo-Saxon. According to legend, Hereward's base was the Isle of Ely and he roamed the The Fens that surround what is now Lincolnshire, leading popular opposition to William I of England. Wikipedia

News about Hereward The Wake

Websites about Hereward The Wake

• BBC - Radio 4 The Long View...

  Jonathan Freedland looks for the past behind the present. This week: the man hunt for Hereward The Wake by the Normans.
  www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/longview/longview_20030923.s...

• an academic article from 1994

  Hereward, generally known as 'the Wake', is second only to Robin Hood in the pantheon of English heroes.
  www.roffe.freeserve.co.uk/articles/hereward.htm

• Wikipedia

  The definitive Wikipedia entry for Hereward The Wake. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereward_the_Wake

• Hereward the Wake -...

  Hereward wanted himself and his men to be knighted in this way because he heard that it had been ruled by the French that if anyone were knighted by a monk, cleric or any ordained minister, it ought not to be reckoned the equal of true knighthood, but inv
  www.bookwormsearch.com/topics/Hereward-the-Wake