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.

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.

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.

* Hereward the Wake, English outlaw

* William I of England invades Scotland, and also receives the submission of Hereward the Wake.

* Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England, which later collapses.

* Hereward the Wake ( year approximate )

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 ).

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.

In Kingsley's 1865 Hereward the Wake, the name of the knight who bribed the monks to gain access to the isle is given as Belasius, and the feature is noted in Lysons ' Magna Britannia ( 1808 vol2, pt1, Cambridgeshire ).

* BR standard class 7 ( otherwise known as the " Britannia Class ") locomotive No 70037 carried the name " Hereward the Wake ".

* Thomas Bulfinch wrote about Hereward the Wake in his work: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes ( 1855 ).

* 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.

* 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.

* 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 ).

* 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.

* 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 '.

She is explicitly so called by Orderic Vitalis, as well as the chronicle of Hyde Abbey She was also sister of Frederick of Oosterzele-Scheldewindeke, who was killed c. 1070 by Hereward the Wake.

Hereward appears in a ballad much like Robin Hood and the Potter, and as the Hereward ballad is older, it appears to be the source.

Hereward escaped, but Morcar was captured, deprived of his earldom and imprisoned.

* 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.

* Price, Hereward.

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.

* Senior, Hereward.

This probably indicates, as the preface to the Gesta suggests, that conflicting oral legends about Hereward were already current in the Fenland in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries.

In addition, there may be some partisan bias in the early writers: the notice of Hereward in the Peterborough Chronicle, for instance, was written in a monastery which he was said to have sacked, some fifty years after the date of the raid.

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.

Peter Rex, in his 2005 biography of Hereward, points out that the campaigns he is reported to have fought in the neighbourhood of Flanders seem to have begun around 1063, and suggests that Hereward in fact went to Flanders-meaning that, if he was 18 at the time of his exile, he was born in 1044 / 5.

* Hereward the Wake ( born 1035 ), 11th-century Anglo-Saxon leader

Hereward Thimbleby Price ( 1880 – 1964 ) was an English author and Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

* Sir John Hereward Edelsten 12 October 1962 – 11 March 1966

* Sir John Hereward Edelsten 10 October 1955 – 12 October 1962

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.

* 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.

* Hereward by James Wilde ( 2011 ), a " brutal novel of revenge ", first in a projected trilogy, with the next two titles, The Devil's Army and End of Days to be published in the future.

* 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.

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