Hereward the Wake

  • 1050

    born

  • 1065

    King Edward dies

  • 1066

    Battle of Hastings

  • 1066

    King Harold is killed

  • 1066

    King William I becomes king

  • 1067

    Hereward fled to the Isle of Ely

  • 1067

    Hereward returns to England

  • 1068

    Several failed attacks against the Normans

  • 1070

    Hereward leads a rain on Peterborough Cathedral

  • 1071

    Abbot Thurstan betrayed Hereward and his followers

  • 1071

    Attack on the Isle of Ely

  • 1072

    Hereward and his followers hide in the fens until King William comes to terms

  • 1072

    Hereward either dies or was exiled again