Hereward the Wake
Hereward the Wake (11th century), semi-legendary Anglo-Saxon rebel leader. A leader of Anglo-Saxon resistance to William I's new Norman regime, he is thought to have been responsible for an uprising centred on the Isle of Ely in 1070. The Wake apparently means ‘the watchful one’.
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