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	hereward and the Barony of Bourne
		Hereward 'the Wake' and the Barony of Bourne: a Reassessment of a Fenland Legend
		Hereward's high social standing is consistent with the role he is reported to have assumed in the rebellion, and native families, especially in the North, were often successful in maintaining title to their lands in the years immediately after the Conquest, whilst the marriage of English heiresses to Norman aristocrats is well-attested.
		Hereward, by contrast, simply paid an annual render which he negotiated with the abbot, and the fact suggests a different type of relationship and a different type of man. Monasteries, open to aggression from local families, often leased out estates on beneficial terms to powerful laymen to counter unfriendly forces.
	www.roffe.freeserve.co.uk /articles/hereward.htm (3853 words)

	III. Hereward the Wake. Hero Myths of the British Race. Vol. III: The Age of Chivalry. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of ...
		Hereward the Wake (or “Watchful”) is found one of those heroes whose date can be ascertained with a fair amount of exactness and yet in whose story occur mythological elements which seem to belong to all ages.
		Hereward, ever chivalrous, picked a quarrel with the giant and killed him in fair fight, whereupon the king threw him into prison.
		While men feasted Hereward listened and talked, and found out that the forty Danes were prisoners, to be released on the morrow when Haco was sure of his bride, but released useless and miserable, since they would be turned adrift blinded.
	www.bartleby.com /182/303.html (760 words)

	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 invalid and anachronistic.
		Hereward had not been there more than three days when he heard that an enemy of his would be in the aforesaid town, a man who had often tried to ruin him and hand him over to those enemies who had lately broken faith with him.
		Hereward hastily followed his track from house to house, from garden to garden, with a naked sword and a small shield in his hand, right into the great hall where many men from the man's own district were assembled at a club dinner.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/hereward.htm (11683 words)

	Hereward The Wake - Robin Hood Loxley Little John Hathersage legend outlaw Barnsdale Nottingham crusades chivalry
		Hereward was the son of Leofric, the Earl of Mercia and his mother was Lady Godiva.
		Hereward had established a camp of refuge in the Isle of Ely in the midst of the Fens where it was very difficult to reach him.
		Hereward and his men were surprised and a thousand of them were killed and their camp captured.
	myweb.ecomplanet.com /kirk6479/mycustompage0013.htm (1624 words)

	Herward the Wake: Introduction
		Hereward and his band remained behind, but were now personae non gratae with Turold and others who had taken up estates in the area.
		The cognomen "the Wake" (i.e., the watchful one) is first recorded in a later chronicle attributed to one John of Peterborough (Chronicon Angliae Petriburgense) that acknowledges the necessary characteristics of the successful guerilla leader.
		Hereward is made to follow the traditional route of the fictional exile through the peripheral regions of Britain combating a monstrous bear in Northumberland, rescuing a princess in distress in Cornwall, and fighting in Ireland, before passing on to Flanders, the common resort of refugees from England at this time.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/hereint.htm (1387 words)

	Hero-Myths and Legends: Chapter XVI. Hereward the Wake
		Hence it happens that Hereward the Saxon, a patriot hero as real and actual as Wellington or Nelson, whose deeds were recorded in prose and verse within forty years of his death, was even then surrounded by a cloud of romance and mystery, which hid in vagueness his family, his marriage, and even his death.
		One morning as Hereward was returning with Martin from his morning ride he heard shouts and shrieks from the castle yard, and, reaching the great gate, entered lightly and closed it behind him rapidly, for there outside the shattered cage, with broken chain dangling, stood the Fairy Bear, glaring savagely round the courtyard.
		Hereward beckoned silently to Martin, and the two stood ready, one at each side of the door, to make a dash for freedom, and Martin was prepared to slay any who should hinder.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/eng/hml/hml20.htm (4085 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wake Island WAKE ISLAND [Wake Island] atoll with three islets (Wake, Wilkes, and Peale), 3 sq mi (7.8 sq km), central Pacific, between Hawaii and Guam.
		wake WAKE [wake] watch kept over a dead body, usually during the night preceding burial.
		Wake Forest University WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY [Wake Forest University] at Winston-Salem, N.C.; Southern Baptist; coeducational; chartered 1833, opened 1834 at Wake Forest, moved 1956.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Wake (591 words)

	Hereward
		Sometime around 1032 Hereward the Wake was born at Bourne.
		Hereward was joined by other English refugees; Morcar, Earl of Northumbria, and Aethelwine, Bishop of Durham.
		Hereward and his raiders were such a threat to William's control of the area that William made a treaty with the Danish king, Sweyn, who as a result withdrew his raiders from Ely.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /weddcastle/new_page_6.htm (715 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - The Long View - The Search for Hereward the Wake
		Through 1071, Hereward and some of the remaining Anglo-Saxon aristocracy base themselves in Ely in order to hold out against William the Conqueror's forces, the isle offers a perfect defensive location as the maze of waterways which constitute the fens make it very difficult to strike at the rebels.
		The 'Life of Hereward' says his younger brother had been killed by the Normans as they took possession of the family lands and that Hereward in turn killed the men responsible.
		Hereward is able to slip in and out of the King's camp outside Ely almost at will (on one occasion disguised as a potter).
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/longview/longview_20030923_readings.shtml (948 words)

	Britannia History: Hereward the Wake
		In this disguise Hereward got into William's camp and overheard his plans (as according to legend King Alfred disguised himself as a harper to enter the camp of the Danes).
		Hereward escaped with a handful of men and was soon leading a new resistance.
		Within eighty years of the real Hereward's death, the Hereward of legend was in full cry, in the Estorie des Engles of Geoffrey Gaimar from around 1140, and the Gesta Herewardii Saxonis ('Deeds of Hereward the Saxon').
	www.britannia.com /history/articles/hereward.html (766 words)

	Rambles: Victor Head, Hereward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Much in the manner that William Wallace rose to stand for Scotland, Hereward the Wake is a character now of myth and legends, although unlike Wallace he does not enjoy the spotlight in the public mind.
		Victor Head works to bring Hereward out of that misty realm of myth and into a flesh-and-blood man, filling in the gaps by presenting clear and concise evidence from all sides about incidents in history.
		Hereward is, indeed, woven into the fabric of England's struggles in history, and as I said, one cannot but help draw parallels between him and Scotland's Wallace.
	www.rambles.net /head_hereward95.html (307 words)

	Chapter 25. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hereward built a castle at Ely, but it was a wooden one, while all through England the Normans were building strong fortresses of stone, such as the English had never seen before.
		Hereward had brought large stores of food into the camp, and he and his men hunted wild animals, so that there was always enough to eat, although the fare was plain.
		Hereward escaped, and with some of his bravest followers continued to fight, although all hope of freedom for England was gone.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/marshall/england/england-25.html (1584 words)

	News and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is the story of Hereward the Wake, 11th century legendary hero, that defied and defeated William the Conqueror of England and/or William the Bastard of Normandy.
		After the opening of Hereward's death, we move with a flashback to when Hereward and she were much younger.
		Robert is in love with Lucy, Hereward's sister, and slowly Torfrida comes to love Hereward, though at time he exasperates her, even makes her hate him for his unbending rebellious streak.
	www.marylancaster.com /News.htm (686 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| fast_news Hereward the wake up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Since 2003, the Hereward has started to expand into UK onshore exploration and has licences in the vicinity of the Wytch Farm field in Dorset, the UK’s largest onshore field, with 500-m barrels of recoverable reserves.
		Hereward is also known for its gold prospecting in south-eastern Europe, particularly in Bulgaria and Serbia.
		The report concludes that although the company’s mining exploration licences are harder to value than its oil stakes, Hereward’s most advanced exploration, the Rozino permit in Bulgaria, has an indicated resource of at least 350,000 oz of gold, valued at £4,1-m.
	www.mineweb.net /fast_news/351427.htm (203 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hereward the Wake (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Hereward the Wake, British And Irish History, Biographies
		In 1070 he sacked Peterborough with the aid of a Danish fleet and then consolidated his forces on the Isle of Ely.
		After William captured (1071) the island, Hereward seems to have continued resistance as an outlaw.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hereward.html (183 words)

	Hereward the Wake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is said that the Normans, probably led by one of William's knights named Belasius (Belsar), then bribed the monks of the island to reveal a safe route across the marshes, resulting in Ely's capture.
		Cold Heart, Cruel Hand: A novel of Hereward the Wake (2004) is novel by Laurence J Brown.
		She was heiress to some of what had been Hereward's father's property.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hereward_the_Wake (1036 words)

	Squashed Writers - Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley - condensed and abridged
		In Bruges one day Hereward found Gilbert of Ghent, who for reasons of his own had come thither with his ward Alftruda, and mightily disappointed was Gilbert to find him married; for he had a scheme whereby Hereward should marry Alftruda, and he should share her dowry, which was great.
		She bade him deliver it to Hereward, to whom it was addressed, the which he did; but she noticed that this letter Hereward never mentioned to her, as he had done the former.
		It congratulated Hereward on having shaken himself free from the fascinations of "that sorceress." It said that all was settled with King William; Hereward was to come to Winchester.
	www.btinternet.com /~glynhughes/squashed/herewardthewake.htm (3112 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 The Long View - The Search for Hereward the Wake.
		The Conqueror's men were frustrated in their efforts to capture 'Hereward the Wake' for over a year.
		William and his army gradually closed on Hereward until he withdrew to the Isle of Ely where he lived in comfortably - out of reach of the invading force.
		In the 11th century the Isle of Ely was a substantial region of raised land, surrounded by marshes, waterways and swamps.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/longview/longview_20030923.shtml (771 words)

	Hereward the Wake
		Evans is fulsome in her praise of Hereward the Wake (1866).
		She admires its absolutely natural dialogue, its splendidly real characterization; its historical accuracy that is as correct as is reasonably possible; its fine drama, its succinctness of writing; its beauty.
		Sanders considers that Kingsley's historical novels, despite their obvious inadequacies, are not, in Henry James's terminology, "amateurish." In particular, he praises Hereward the Wake's action, its characterization, and its presentation of a strange medieval period.
	www2.bc.edu /~rappleb/kingsley/KHerewardtheWake.html (1488 words)

	Hereward
		Hereward the Wake ("watchful one") is believed to be the son of Leofric of Bourn.
		As a young man Hereward was banished from Lincolnshire by Edward the Confessor as a troublemaker.
		Hereward now took revenge by establishing a gang of rebels who attacked Normans settlers in Lincolnshire.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORhereward.htm (160 words)

	Wake Island - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wake Island - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Wake Island, formerly Halcyon Island, coral atoll, territory of the United States, central Pacific Ocean.
		It is a group of three islets (Wake,...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Wake_Island.html (95 words)

	Wakefield Family - Genealogy and History
		The Manor of Wakefield is the chief place of the Lordship of Wakefield which belonged to the English King, "Edward The Confessor" and were therefore "terra regis".
		It was here that, Hereward Leofricson, son of Earl Leofric and Lady Godiva, emerged as a warrior leader.
		Hereward the Wake, stirred up resistance to the Norman conquerors in East Anglia from a base at Ely, deep in the fenland.
	www.rpwakefield.freeservers.com /wakefield.htm (2009 words)

	Hereward the Wake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But the Ely Monks were not in full agreement with the Saxon leader Hereward, and William evenually gained access into Ely with the aid of information supplied by the monks of Ely...
		Hereward escaped and lived to fight another day...
		After serving Edric the Wild in the English resistance in the Welsh Marches, Godfrew is sent to Hereward the Wake in the fenlands with the news of the defeat of the Anglo-Welsh forces.
	www.ely.org.uk /heros/Hereward5.html (232 words)

	Hereward the Wake
		In 1070, Hereward who lived in the Peterborough area, Sacked the abbey as a protest on the appointment of a Norman abbot.
		He then went to ground on the island of Ely with a group of followers, one of which was Morcar.
		In William's effort to capture him, he surrounded the island but Hereward escaped.
	www.battle1066.com /g146.shtml (129 words)

	Historical Fiction
		The story is told by his Flemish-born wife, the learned and slightly mysterious Torfrida, mostly in flash-back, as she tries to come to terms with the brutal murder of her estranged husband.
		Part romance, part murder-mystery, the novel details their adventurous life together from their first riotous meeting as little more than children, through their stormy courtship and the stirring events of their married life, as the charismatic Hereward rises to his full potential as a patriotic leader resisting the Norman invasion of England.
		But it is his betrayal which parts him from his wife, leaving her reluctant, four years later, to investigate the truth behind his murder.
	pweb.jps.net /~dancnwlf/id13.html (246 words)

	The Best Reviews: Mary Lancaster, The Endless Exile Review
		Sent as a 12- year-old child bride to Robert de Ghent, she is a shock to his family.
		Lancaster gives an amazing tale, that totally fascinated and spellbound me. The young Hereward and Torfrida were amazing; they were so vivid, alive.
		The story is fascinating, thrilling, brilliant, weaving between Torfrida's life upon Hereward's death and the flashbacks to their passionate, poignant, stormy love.
	thebestreviews.com /review23859 (338 words)

	An Endless Exile eBooks - Mary Lancaster - Visit eBookMall Today!
		An Endless Exile is the story of the eleventh century hero, Hereward "the Wake", the only Englishman to have defied and defeated William the Conqueror.
		Lonely and embittered, it is with reluctance that she remembers the past, from her first childhood meeting with the tumultuous Hereward, through their stormy courtship and Hereward's military adventures as mercenary and as patriot - which she shared - up to the unforgivable betrayal which parted them.
		Even more reluctantly does Torfrida begin to question Hereward's murder, eventually seeking the elusive truth with a desperation that mirrors her own unacknowledged need to believe in him and the value of their marriage.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/endless-exile-lancaster-ebooks.htm (670 words)

	Pymoor - Hereward Way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The path takes its name from Hereward the Wake, an outlawed English nobleman who, in 1071, made a final stand against William the Conqueror on the Isle of Ely.
		As the Norman's lay seige to the island, Hereward gathered together the English Barons at Ely, protected by the surrounding marsh.
		There are photographs and more details available of Frith Head Drove and one which leads from the village to the Oxlode Fishing lakes.
	www.cam.net.uk /home/greg/local/hereward.htm (300 words)

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