Hereward the Wake
1032–1072
11th-century leader of local resistance to the Norman conquest of England
military personnel
Born in Lincolnshire
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Hereward the Wake:
- Omar Khayyám (1048–1131)
- Murasaki Shikibu (970–)
- Al-Ghazali (1056–1111)
- William the Conqueror (1028–1087)
- Al-Biruni (973–1048)
- Urban II (1035–1099)
- Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)
- Gregory VII (1020–1085)