The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from tales of outlaws, such as Hereward the Wake, Eustace the Monk, Fulk FitzWarin and William Wallace.

Earl Edwin was betrayed by his own men and killed, while William built a causeway to subdue the Isle of Ely, where Hereward the Wake and Morcar were hiding.

* No Ribbons or Medals: the story of " Hereward " an Australian counter espionage officer published by Jacobyte Books, South Australia, 2004 ISBN 1-74100-165-X available from Digital Print, South Australia.

On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

Sweyn II of Denmark arrived in person to take command of his fleet and renounced the earlier agreement to withdraw, sending troops into the Fens to join forces with English rebels led by Hereward, who were based on the Isle of Ely.

Edwin and Morcar again turned against William, and while Edwin was soon betrayed and killed, Morcar reached Ely, where he and Hereward were joined by exiled rebels who had sailed from Scotland.

On the other hand, the original version of the Gesta was written in explicit praise of Hereward ,; much of its information was provided by men who knew him personally, principally, if the preface is to be believed, a former colleague in arms and member of his father's former household named Leofric the Deacon.

There is a wide variety of secondary sources of information, but they must be treated with caution: the popular, romanticised view of Hereward often has little basis in the medieval sources, owing more to the fictional depiction by Charles Kingsley and later authors.

According to the Gesta Herewardi, Hereward was exiled at the age of eighteen for disobedience to his father and disruptive behaviour, and he was declared an outlaw by Edward the Confessor.

They were joined by many, including Hereward.

This circular feature, known as Belsar's Hill, is a potential site for a fort, built by William, from which to attack Ely and Hereward.

The twelfth-century Gesta Herewardi ( of unknown authorship ; first published by Thomas Wright in 1839 and translated by W. Sweeting for the 1895 edition ), says Hereward was eventually pardoned by William and lived the rest of his life in relative peace.

Geoffrey Gaimar, in his Estoire des Engleis, says instead that Hereward lived for some time as an outlaw in the Fens, but that as he was on the verge of making peace with William, he was set upon and killed by a group of Norman knights.

Popular legend interprets it as meaning " the watchful ", and supposes that Hereward acquired it when, with the help of his servant Martin Lightfoot, he foiled an assassination attempt during a hunting party by a group of knights jealous of his popularity.

* Cold Heart, Cruel Hand: a novel of Hereward the Wake ( 2004 ) is a novel by Laurence J.

* Hereward the Wake makes a significant appearance in Keeper of the Crystal Spring ( 1998 ) by Naomi & Deborah Baltuck, a historical romance / adventure set in a predominantly Saxon community 20 years after the Battle of Hastings.

* Henry Treece's children's novel Man with a Sword was published by the Bodley Head, London, in 1962: Hereward is the hero of the story, in the first episode he is the champion of the Empress Gunhilda of Germany and at the end his life extends past the death of William I.

The premise of this story is that Hereward was an alias adopted by King Harold after surviving the Battle of Hastings.

* The BBC made a 16-episode TV series in 1965 entitled Hereward the Wake, based on Kingsley's novel: Hereward was portrayed by actor Alfred Lynch.

* Hancock's Half Hour-Sid James claims Hereward stayed at Hancock's house as a ploy to get the house renovated by the National Trust.

* Hereward is the subject of the track " Rebel of the Marshlands " by metal band Forefather, in their 2005 album Ours Is the Kingdom.

* Hereward, a historical novel by James Wilde, pub.

* Hereward: The Devil's Army sequel by James Wilde, pub 2012.

Hereward the Wake ( c. 1035 – 1072 ), known in his own times as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile, was an 11th-century leader of local resistance to the Norman conquest of England.

* Marcus Pitcaithly's epic Hereward trilogy ( Hereward: Sons of the White Dragon ( 2008 ), Hereward: The Fury of the Northmen ( 2009 ), and Hereward: Doom of Battle ( 2012 )) incorporates legendary figures from the same region such as Tom Hickathrift, the Toadmen of Wisbech, Black Shuck, and the phantom knight of Wandlebury.

* Progressive rock band Pink Floyd referred to Hereward in the track " Let There Be More Light " ( 1968 ), in which a psychedelic vision at Mildenhall reveals the ' living soul of Hereward the Wake '.

* Hereward, together with De Gestis Herewardi Saxonis ; researched and compiled in the 12th century by monastery historians, revised and rewritten in modern English by Trevor A. Bevis, ( 1982 ), Pub.

This linking of " Anglo-Saxon " English nationalism and anti-Catholicism influenced Charles Kingsley's novel Hereward the Wake ( 1864 ), which, like Ivanhoe, helped popularise the image of a romantic Anglo-Saxon England destroyed by the Normans.

Its traditional Army Co-Operation role is reflected in the " AC " of its title, its motto Hereward ( Guardian of the Army ), and the symbol of a Wake knot on its crest.

Other members of the original team included Peter Robinson ( news ) and Sasha Twining ( news and presentation ), Paul Gardner, Richard Tree and Sarah Harding ( all 3 in sales ), Jim Warwick ( engineer based at Hereward Radio ), and Amanda Wildman ( on reception ).

* Charles Kingsley's novel Hereward the Wake: " last of the English " ( London: Macmillan, 1866 ) is a highly romanticised account of Hereward's exploits, and makes him the son of Earl Leofric of Mercia and the ancestor of the family of Wake.

* Hereward is portrayed as a prototype Robin Hood, but also a drug-taking, psychopathic arsonist, in Mike Ripley's novel The Legend of Hereward the Wake ( 2007 ).

* Man with a Sword ( 1962 ) ( novel about Hereward the Wake ) ( decorations by William Stobbs )

On the wrist of the hand was a " Wake knot ", representing Hereward the Wake.

* Hereward Tilton, " The Life and Work of Count Michael Maier ( 1569-1622 ): Understanding Christian Alchemy in the German Calvinist States ", Theology and Religion, Vol.

Hereward Radio was the first Independent Local Radio franchise for the county, providing programmes for Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes and Rugby from the 1 October 1984, using its former FM frequency of 102. 8 MHz and 1557 kHz medium wave.

Launched on 10 July 1980 as Hereward Radio 225, the station was the first local service in the area, with the studios originally based in the back of a former pub in Bridge Street, Peterborough, before relocating to the Queensgate Shopping Centre in the city in 1987.

thumbThe suburb first made headlines on 6 May 1898, when the Hereward, a fully rigged iron ship weighing 1, 513 tons, was caught by the gale force winds and shipwrecked at the northern end of Maroubra Beach while heading north toward Newcastle.

Medieval Cornwall is also the setting of the trilogy by Monica Furlong *, Wise Child, Juniper, and Colman, as well as part of Charles Kingsley's * Hereward the Wake.

Although Sweyn had promised to leave England, he returned in spring 1070, raiding along the Humber and East Anglia toward the Isle of Ely, where he joined up with Hereward the Wake, a local thegn.

Abigail and Roger, The Airbase, As Good Cooks Go, the 1960 adaptation of The Citadel, the 1956 adaptation of David Copperfield, The Dark Island, The Gnomes of Dulwich, Hurricane, For Richer ... For Poorer, Hereward the Wake, The Naked Lady, Night Train To Surbiton, Outbreak of Murder, Where do I Sit ?, and Witch Hunt have all been wiped with no footage surviving while four out of seven episodes of the paranormal anthology series Dead of Night were wiped.

Domesday Book shows that a man named Hereward held lands in the parishes of Witham on the Hill and Barholm with Stow in the south-western corner of Lincolnshire as a tenant of Peterborough Abbey ; prior to his exile, Hereward had also held lands as a tenant of Croyland Abbey at Crowland, eight miles east of Market Deeping in the neighbouring fenland.

Hereward is said to have escaped with some of his followers into the wild fenland and to have continued his resistance.

Some folk figures are based on semi or actual historical people whose story has been passed down centuries ; Lady Godiva for instance was said to have ridden naked on horseback through Coventry, the heroic English figure Hereward the Wake resisted the Norman invasion, Herne the Hunter is an equestrian ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park, and Mother Shipton is the archetypal witch.

In heraldry the knot is associated with Hereward the Wake and is known under the name Wake knot.

Another psychical researcher Hereward Carrington in his book Story of Psychic Science ( 1930 ) wrote that the photographs taken by Crawford look " dubious in appearance " and that " with rare exceptions, no other investigators had an opportunity to check-up his results, since outsiders were rarely admitted to the sittings " however Carrington also stated that some type of genuine phenomena may have been observed by Crawford.

It is the only station to actually be local to the area, with closest rivals Heart 102. 7 in Peterborough ( formerly Hereward FM ) taking most programes from London, and the rest with Heart 103 in Cambridge.

Band members include Americans Jimmy Helms ( who also had a successful solo career and sang radio jingles for Radio Hallam and Hereward Radio in the UK ) and George Chandler ( formerly a founding member and frontman of The Olympic Runners ); with Jimmy Chambers ( born 20 January 1946 ), from Trinidad, and multi-instrumentalist William Henshall, UK ( credited as Willy M ).

Adelina was a great-granddaughter of Hereward the Wake, though the connection with the Wake family was not made until the generation after Baldwin and Adelina, when their daughter, Emma married Hugh Wake.