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HEREWARD , usually but erroneously styled " the See also:Wake " (an addition of later days), an Englishman famous for his resistance to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William the Conqueror. It is now established that he was a See also:tenant of See also:Peterborough See also:Abbey, from which he held lands at See also:Witham-on-the-See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill and Barholme with See also:Stow in the See also:south-western corner of See also:Lincolnshire, and of See also:Crowland Abbey at Rippingale in the neighbouring fenland. His first See also:authentic See also:act is the See also:storm and sacking of Peterborough in 1070, in See also:company with outlaws and Danish invaders. The next See also:year he took See also:part in the desperate stand against the Conqueror's See also:rule made in the isle of See also:Ely, and, on its See also:capture by the See also:Normans, escaped with his followers through the See also:fens. That his exploits made an exceptional impression on the popular mind is certain from the See also:mass of legendary See also:history that clustered See also:round his name; he became, says Mr See also:Davis, " in popular eyes the See also:champion of the See also:English See also:national cause." The Hereward See also:legend has been fully dealt with by him and by See also:Professor See also:Freeman, who observed that " with no name has fiction been more busy."
See E. A. Freeman, History of the See also:Norman See also:Conquest, vol. iv.; J. H. Round, Feudal See also:England; H. W. C. Davis, England under the Normans and Angevins. (J. H.
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