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Hereward, known as Hereward the Wake fl.1070
Anglo-Saxon thane and rebel
A Lincolnshire squire, he led a raid on Peterborough Abbey in 1070 as a protest against the appointment of a Norman abbot by William the Conqueror. He took refuge on the Isle of Ely with other rebels. When William succeeded in penetrating to the English camp in 1071, Hereward cut his way through to the swampy fens northwards and escaped. He was the hero of Charles Kingsley's romance, Hereward the Wake (1866).
Bibliography: Victor Head, Hereward (1995)
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